Suzuka: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton triggered a fresh Twitter storm on Monday by wrongly accusing Formula One team mate and compatriot Jenson Button of disrespect by 'unfollowing' him on the social media site.
Hamilton, who is leaving for Mercedes at the end of the season, was beaten by Button in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.
The two drivers, both world champions, have seemed to get on well at McLaren where their relationship has been presented as generally harmonious.
Hamilton, who has taken enthusiastically to Twitter, caused a controversy at the Belgian Grand Prix last month when he sent out confidential qualifying data to nearly a million of his followers....
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11:13 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Suzuka: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton accused his future replacement Sergio Perez of 'crazy' driving on Sunday after the two fought for points at the Japanese Grand Prix. Mexican Perez, who will move from Sauber to replace Hamilton next season when the 2008 Formula One champion joins Mercedes, retired on the 18th of 53 laps after spinning off while trying to pass the Briton at the hairpin. Perez, who is not a...
06:01 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Third place felt like a victory for Kamui Kobayashi as he celebrated his first Formula One podium finish in front of home fans who had only once before witnessed such an event on Japanese soil. Only the third of his countrymen to stand on a grand prix podium, and first since Takuma Sato was third at the 2004 U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis, the Sauber driver had an army...
05:21 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Angry Australian Mark Webber branded Romain Grosjean a "first-lap nutcase" on Sunday following a Japanese Grand Prix collision that wrecked the Red Bull driver's hopes of a podium finish. Webber lined up on the front row of the grid alongside team mate and eventual winner Sebastian Vettel on pole position but contact with Grosjean in the opening seconds sent the Australian to the back of the field from where...
04:18 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Sahara Force India's Nico Hulkenberg finished seventh in the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix to bag six points on Sunday. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the race from second placed Felipe Massa in his Ferrari. Home favourite Kamui Kobayashi came third in his Sauber. Hulkenberg's teammate Paul di Resta finished 12th, exactly where he started from, and could not score points. Currently, British di Resta is 12th in the...
02:22 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix from pole on Sunday to close within four points of the top of the Formula One championship standings as leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari crashed out of the race at the first turn. Vettel, who also won the previous race in Singapore, is moving within sight of a third straight title " something only previously achieved by Juan-Manuel Fangio...
01:24 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Ferrari's Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso crashed out of the Japanese Grand Prix seconds after the start on Sunday. The Spaniard, who led Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel by 29 points with five races remaining after Suzuka, had started in sixth place and was sent spinning into the gravel at the first corner after contact with Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus. Germany's Nico Rosberg also retired his Mercedes while Australian Mark...
10:57 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Suzuka: Ferrari's Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso cursed his luck on Saturday after qualifying only sixth for the Japanese Grand Prix while closest title rival Sebastian Vettel put his Red Bull on pole. The Spaniard's final quick lap was wrecked after Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus spun off in the final seconds of qualifying to bring out the yellow warning flags. That forced everyone to slow and left Vettel the unchallenged...
05:02 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Suzuka: Sahara Force India's Nico Hulkenberg qualified 10th but will start Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix from the 15th position on the grid after being handed a five-place penaltly due to an unscheduled gearbox change. Paul di Resta on Saturday qualified 12th but will move one place up to 11th, just behind Felipe Massa of Ferrari. The two Red Bull cars will line up in the front row with defending champion...
03:14 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Suzaka: Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position for the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix by qualifying ahead of teammate Mark Webber on Saturday. Vettel, a two-time winner in Japan, secured his fourth consecutive pole at Suzuka and will be in a good position in Sunday's race to further erode the championship lead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. "We had a very smooth qualifying session, nearly perfect" Vettel said. "The...
12:22 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Suzuka: Double world champion Sebastian Vettel led a Red Bull one-two in the final practice for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday. The German, who won his second title in Japan last year and will be chasing his fourth successive Suzuka pole later in the day, lapped the classic figure-of-eight circuit in a best time of 1 minute 32.136 seconds. Australian Mark Webber, who was fastest on Friday,...
09:24 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Suzaka: Sergio Perez's main Mexican backers will stick with Sauber despite the driver's departure for McLaren at the end of the season, the Swiss team's chief executive Monisha Kaltenborn said on Friday. Perez is backed by Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex), the telecoms provider run by Carlos Slim Domit whose father is the world's richest man. Sauber also have several other Mexican sponsors prominent on their Formula One cars, including leading...
05:48 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Suzuka: Having got the better of seven times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg is hardly quaking in his racing boots at the prospect of teaming up with Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. The two are old friends, teenage team-mates in karting where they dreamed of one day driving together in grands prix, and Rosberg even gave the 2008 world champion the benefit of his advice before Hamilton decided...
03:50 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Suzuka: Red Bull driver Mark Webber has set the fastest time in Friday's practice ahead of Sunday's Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. Webber edged McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton by 0.214 seconds while Sebastian Vettel was third giving Red Bull two of the three fastest times in the afternoon practice at the Suzuka circuit. Michael Schumacher " who announced on Thursday that he will retire at season's end " finished 10th....
12:56 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Suzuka: McLaren driver Jenson Button set the fastest time in Friday's opening practice session for the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. Button, who won last year's Japanese GP, edged team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.233 seconds with Red Bull driver Mark Webber third in the morning session at the Suzuka circuit. Button has two wins this year in Australia and Belgium, and kept a pulse in his faint title hopes by...
08:31 AM, Oct 05, 2012
Suzuka: Caterham driver Vitaly Petrov said he was feeling unwell in the run-up to Sunday's Formula One Japanese Grand Prix. The Japan race could be crucial for Caterham, who are bidding to retake the tenth place in the constructors' standings that they lost to Marussia in the last race in Singapore. "I've arrived in Japan but I don't feel well somehow," Petrov said on Wednesday on the social networking site...
10:53 AM, Oct 04, 2012
On the heels of another fourth-place finish in Singapore recently, Sahara Force India drivers Paul de Resto and Nico Hulkenberg have their sights trained on the upcoming Japanese Grand Prix this weekend. Di Resta, who picked up 12 points for his team with a career-best finish at the Singapore Grand Prix, termed the result as his best day in Formula One and hoped to continue the momentum. When we qualified...
08:20 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Suzuka: Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest double world champion at Suzuka on Sunday but Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has already pinpointed two areas where the German could improve next season. "He still needs to work on some of his English jokes and some of his haircuts have been a little bit strange this year," he smiled. Apart from that, the 24-year-old has been simply phenomenal - a...
05:00 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Suzuka: Ferrari's Felipe Massa called on Formula One's governing body to get tough with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton after the pair clashed yet again on track at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday. The pair, who have collided already this season in Monaco and Singapore, had a coming together at the chicane early in the title-decider while challenging for fourth place. The front wing endplate on the Ferrari was dislodged in...
04:57 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Suzuka: Jenson Button hopes McLaren can take a leaf out of Red Bull's book by chalking up a string of season-ending victories to start next year on a high. Red Bull ended the 2009 Formula One season with three wins in a row and they closed out 2010 with two successive triumphs - and victory in three of the last four races - as well. The team took both the...
07:43 PM, Oct 10, 2011
