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: 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: Mexican Sergio Perez cheerfully owned up to misleading the media on Thursday over talks that led to him securing a race seat at McLaren next season. The 22-year-old Sauber driver added that glamour team Ferrari, with whom he had also been linked, had never been an option. After denying at the previous race in Singapore that there had been any approaches from top teams, Perez recognised at the Japanese...
09:02 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Suzuka: Lewis Hamilton has made the right move in leaving McLaren if he wants to win more Formula One titles, former team mate Fernando Alonso said on Thursday. "I think it's normal, it's just steps on your career. I said when the rumours were there that for Lewis it's a good thing to move on," Ferrari's championship leader told reporters at the Japanese Grand Prix. Mercedes announced last week that...
07:57 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Tokyo: Lewis Hamilton does not believe he is taking a gamble by leaving McLaren for Mercedes next season, saying the move could catapult him into Formula One's pantheon of greats even if it does not pay out immediately. "No doubt it was one of the most difficult decisions I've faced in my life up to now," the 27-year-old told Reuters in an interview in Tokyo before this weekend's Japanese Grand...
09:13 AM, Oct 04, 2012
Lewis Hamilton is moving to Mercedes, replacing seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher in a major shakeup that also saw Sergio Perez sign with McLaren. Hamilton has been at McLaren throughout his F1 career but the British team had been unwilling to match a lucrative offer from Mercedes, where he will team with Nico Rosberg next season on a three-year contract. The deal, which had been rumored for weeks, was...
08:58 AM, Sep 29, 2012
London: Lewis Hamilton is set to move from McLaren to the Mercedes Formula One team next season in a deal likely to send Michael Schumacher back into retirement, according to media reports in Britain and Germany. British newspapers said an announcement could come later on Friday once the Mercedes board had signed a new commercial agreement committing the German car maker to the sport's long-term future. Bild, Germany's best-selling tabloid,...
12:25 PM, Sep 28, 2012
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08:26 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Singapore: Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel has set the fastest time in Saturday's pre-qualifying practice session at the Singapore Grand Prix, bettering McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by a third of a second. Vettel made it a sweep of all three practice sessions at Marina Bay to be well positioned to chase pole position later Saturday. Championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was third fastest, two thirds of a second behind Vettel,...
05:07 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Singapore: The contract negotiations between Formula One team McLaren and Lewis Hamilton won't dampen the English driver's quest to win the title, according to team principal Martin Whitmarsh. Hamilton has been linked with a big-money switch to Mercedes for next season, and his future remains in limbo while he pushes for a more lucrative McLaren offer. "I am sure he will want more money and I am sure we will...
09:21 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Singapore: Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso will focus his attention on nearest rival Lewis Hamilton at this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix as the Spaniard knows it is impossible to watch everyone. Ferrari's Alonso leads Hamilton by 37 points with seven rounds remaining but the Briton has hauled himself into contention by winning two of the last three races to loom large in the Spaniard's wing mirrors. McLaren's Hamilton sits...
06:55 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Singapore: McLaren's Lewis Hamilton is keen to take a leaf out of Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso's book by improving his consistency in the final seven races of the season to bolster his title chances. The 2008 world champion sits 37 points behind the Spaniard in second place in the drivers' standings and although both men have won three races apiece, it is the Ferrari's ability to pick up...
08:39 AM, Sep 20, 2012
The Formula One driver said he has had a great success with McLaren so far and he is not planning to leave the side. ...
11:31 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Mumbai: McLaren and joining some other team for the next season as "rubbish" and said he was currently focused on regaining his world championship title after five years. "I have not signed up with anyone. I don't have a timeline (to sign a new contract). I have to get that (contract) sorted out. People are doing this in the background. Lot of stories are written about it, lot of speculations......
08:15 PM, Sep 16, 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, Italy: Triple Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart advised Lewis Hamilton on Saturday to stay at McLaren and "the devil you know" rather than risk a move to Mercedes for next season. The retired champion, who became a successful team owner and businessman after hanging up his helmet in 1973, told reporters at the Italian Grand Prix that Hamilton, maybe, did not realise how lucky he was. "I personally...
12:14 PM, Sep 09, 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
