Monza, Italy: Lewis Hamilton had the fastest time in Friday's second practice session at the Italian Grand Prix, as championship leader Fernando Alonso endured more problems with his Ferrari. Hamilton posted a time of 1 minute 25.290 seconds, just 0.038 seconds faster than McLaren team-mate Jenson Button. Alonso was third, 0.058 seconds behind Hamilton, but struggled with his car in both sessions. After a suspected engine failure six minutes from...
07:34 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Monza: Lewis Hamilton felt no need to seek out Jenson Button to apologise for his Belgian GP Twitter gaffe on Thursday and said he had learned from the experience, would not be repeating the error and had moved on. The 2008 Formula One world champion caused a furore in Spa last weekend when he tweeted confidential qualifying data to nearly a million followers - including members of rival teams grateful...
09:30 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Mumbai: Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton will be here to enthrall motorsport fans on September 16 as he will drive his racecar around Marine Drive. The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver will drive his MP4-27 through the famous south Mumbai road. The 2008 World Champion said: "I always love coming to India and I am really excited to be coming to Mumbai this time." "I am simply overwhelmed by the incredible...
06:42 PM, Sep 05, 2012
London: McLaren's Jenson Button has criticised team mate Lewis Hamilton for revealing confidential car data on Twitter before Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix in a gaffe that may have helped Formula One rivals. Button won the race at Spa but British newspapers on Tuesday reported his dismay at the incident. "We work so hard to improve the car and keep things like that secret and private. I didn't want to see...
03:24 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Spa, Belgium: Jenson Button coasted to his second victory of the season at the crash-marred Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, with Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton forced out after a spectacular pileup at the start. It was Button's first victory at Spa and the 14th of the British driver's career " and probably one of the easiest as he led from start to finish, oblivious to...
07:18 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Belgium: Lewis Hamilton chose the wrong wing for his McLaren at the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday and then got into more of a flap trying to explain himself on Twitter. The 2008 world champion qualified seventh, with team-mate Jenson Button on pole position, after opting to run an older specification rear wing on his car instead of the latest one his fellow Briton went with. "Damn. Jenson...
12:59 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Belgium: Red Bull team boss Christian Horner lent support to Jenson Button on Friday by refusing to dismiss the Briton's Formula One title chances even with an 88 point gap between him and Ferrari's leader Fernando Alonso. Button is 41 points adrift of his McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton with nine races remaining and has faced questions at the Belgium Grand Prix about the possibility of playing a supporting role....
12:12 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Belgium: Force India Formula One driver Paul Di Resta is hoping to appoint a new manager in the next few weeks while lawyers deal with the fall-out of his split from Lewis Hamilton's father Anthony. The Scot, managed by Hamilton senior until his home race at Silverstone in early July, told reporters at the Belgian Grand Prix that he would not let the off-track issues become a distraction. "I have...
07:36 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Belgium: Lewis Hamilton indicated on Thursday that he was prepared to be hard-headed in talks with McLaren about a Formula One contract extension. The 2008 world champion's contract expires at the end of the season and negotiations have been going on for months. Hamilton, 27, has been part of the McLaren 'family' since he was in his early teens and building up a reputation in go-karts and it would be...
11:19 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has termed McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel as his main rival for Driver's world championship this season. "Hamilton and Vettel are the drivers we have focused on since the beginning. They are the biggest challengers, but all of the teams are close," Alonso told Brazil's Totalrace. "Hopefully, they will fight among themselves and not one of them will dominate." Alonso also said the difference...
09:14 PM, Aug 17, 2012
London: American cyclist Tyler Hamilton was officially stripped of his Athens 2004 time trial gold medal on Friday ending an eight-year doping case, the International Olympic Committee said. "I can announce that we have communicated to Tyler Hamilton that he has been disqualified and we will reallocate the medals," IOC spokesman Mark Adams told reporters after a disciplinary commission meeting in London. The IOC was eager to close the case...
09:22 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Hockenheim: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were optimistic they could challenge the leaders in Sunday's German Grand Prix despite more tyre-related frustration in qualifying. Despite car upgrades, the pair struggled in the wet conditions that have plagued their performances in qualifying for two Grands Prix in a row now, at Silverstone in Britain and Hockenheim. If the forecast dry weather turns out correct on Sunday, they said they could...
10:36 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Jenson Button was fastest and his team-mate Lewis Hamilton second as McLaren dominated a rain-hit opening practice for the German Grand Prix on Friday. Intermittent showers made conditions tricky for the drivers although the rain was nothing on the scale which caused chaos at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone two weeks ago. Valtteri Bottas crashed his Williams near the end of the session, smashing into the barriers on corner...
04:43 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Hockenheim, Germany: Lewis Hamilton will take part in his 100th Formula One Grand Prix at Hockenheim, reluctant to celebrate and with a certain sense of frustration. Having finished second in his debut season in 2007 and winning the world title at the age of 23 the year after, the subsequent years have been something of an anti-climax for the British driver who has been upstaged by Sebastian Vettel. Asked if...
10:42 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Moscow: McLarens Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton wants a Singapore-style night race on the streets of Moscow, the 2008 world champion said in the Russian capital Sunday. Russia is due to host its first Grand Prix in 2014 in the southern coastal resort of Sochi, but clamour has been growing to build a street circuit around the Kremlin. "I think Moscow has an opportunity, I hope, in the future to...
08:21 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Los Angeles: Actor Channing Tatum is to star in and produce a biopic of legendary stunt rider Evel Knievel. The 32-year-old is in talks to portray the daredevil stunt rider in a film he would also produce with his Iron Horse Entertainment partner Reid Carolin, who will also write the screenplay, reported Aceshowbiz. The Social Network producers Mike DeLuca and Dana Brunetti, who have just signed up to work on...
04:40 PM, Jul 12, 2012
London: Jenson Button will be looking for answers when McLaren's top technical brains meet on Tuesday to try and find out why their car has become so slow. The Woking team had a deeply disappointing British Grand Prix at Silverstone with Lewis Hamilton, a winner in Canada only last month, finishing eighth and Button 10th. Button, the 2009 world champion and winner of the season-opening race in Australia, is now...
08:42 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Silverstone: Lewis Hamilton was fastest in rainy practice sessions for the British Grand Prix on Friday in front of his home fans. As conditions improved slightly in the afternoon, the McLaren driver clocked 1 minute 56.345 seconds in the second session with Kamui Kobayashi of Sauber 0.129 seconds back. Michael Schumacher posted the third fastest time. He's coming off his first podium finish at the European GP since coming out...
09:01 AM, Jul 07, 2012
