McLaren unveiled their 2013 Formula One car with an ear-splitting blast from the past as the team celebrated 50 years in motor racing. ...
11:15 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Jenson Button took his third race win of the season. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Button set a lap of 1 minute, 13.188 seconds at Interlagos, just .057 in front of Vettel. ...
08:07 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Abu Dhabi: Lewis Hamilton was fastest in Saturday's pre-qualifying practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix followed by his McLaren teammate Jenson Button. Hamilton clocked 1 minute, 42.130 seconds on the 5.6-kilometer (3.5-mile) Yas Marina circuit, 0.290 seconds quicker than Button. Two-time Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel, who leads the drivers' championship, came in third after coming onto the track late with less than three minutes to spare and completing...
05:04 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Greater Noida: McLaren can deny Red Bull's Formula One leader Sebastian Vettel a fourth straight win, Jenson Button said at the Indian Grand Prix on Thursday. "I think they (Red Bull) have upgraded their car so they're doing a very good job and when the car works well, Sebastian gets the best out of it. But we don't come here thinking that it's going to be Red Bull all the...
11:06 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Greater Noida: Formula 1 team McLaren's sporting director Sam Michael is expecting an intense contest to the end of the season due to the closeness of the competition among the top teams. "We're going to push to the end. The thing is the gaps are very small now and it only takes one or two-tenths to swing things from one way to another. It's great for everyone watching Grand Prix...
03:38 PM, Oct 25, 2012
London: Last year's inaugural Indian Formula One Grand Prix taught McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh an important driving lesson: Steer clear of the country's public roads as much as possible. The Briton and his drivers, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, head to India next week for the country's second race and Whitmarsh told Reuters that the team would do some things differently this time. "We are going to stay much...
05:31 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Boost, India's health food drink, on Wednesday announced partnership with the F1 side McLaren for the upcoming Indian Grand Prix. As part of the association, the Boost brand logo will run on Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button's race cars during the race and the chocolate flavoured health drink will be available for the team throughout the race weekend. "Boost is excited to partner with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes for...
03:25 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Yeongam: Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in Friday's practice for the Korean Grand Prix, edging Red Bull teammate Mark Webber and Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso. Vettel, who has won the previous two races to move within four points of Ferrari's Alonso in the drivers' standings, was 0.032 seconds faster than Webber at the Yeongam circuit. Alonso was 0.328 seconds off the pace. McLaren driver Jenson Button was...
12:50 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Yeongam: Jenson Button has turned his focus on trying to secure McLaren a first Formula One constructors' championship since 1998 after accepting he has little chance of the drivers' title this season. The 2009 world champion is 63 points adrift of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso with five races, worth 125 points in total, still to come. McLaren are second in the constructors' standings with 283 points, 41 behind champions Red Bull...
09:13 AM, Oct 12, 2012
Yeongam: Lewis Hamilton said he would handle social media with care after causing a Twitter flap earlier in the week with a message accusing McLaren team mate Jenson Button of disrespect by 'unfollowing' him. The 2008 Formula One world champion has been an enthusiastic user of the medium, acquiring some 1.2 million followers. Some of his more trigger-happy 'Tweets' have generated plenty of news coverage for all the wrong reasons,...
05:07 PM, Oct 11, 2012
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...
11:13 AM, Oct 08, 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
Singapore: Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel positioned himself as the main challenger to Fernando Alonso's Formula One title chances by earning his second straight Singapore Grand Prix win on Sunday, jumping up to second place in the drivers' championship. Vettel inherited the lead from pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, who led the race until he suffered a gearbox failure on lap 23 of 59 and had to retire. It was...
07:53 PM, Sep 23, 2012
London: Jenson Button will be getting on his bike and building up a sweat to prepare for Singapore next week after failing to finish on Sunday in an Italian Grand Prix won by McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton. The 2009 Formula One world champion had thought he was building up momentum after winning from pole position in Belgium and racking up a string of points to put himself back in...
11:26 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Monza: Force India Formula One driver Paul Di Resta has appointed Jenson Button's manager Richard Goddard to run his affairs after falling out with Lewis Hamilton's father. "They've been assisting me in a purely advisory capacity, whilst I've been making my decision," the Scot said in a statement issued at the Italian Grand Prix by Goddard's Sports Partnership. "Based on how that's gone and having seen what they've achieved with...
12:13 PM, Sep 09, 2012
