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VIDEO: Hamilton and Button on new car |
2012-02-02 03:00:42 |
| Speaking at the launch of McLaren's new car for 2012, Lewis Hamilton tells BBC Sport's Jake Humphrey he has "matured" following a difficult 2011 season and "nothing else matters" apart from winning his second world championship. (UK only)
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VIDEO: Hamilton and Button on new McLaren |
2012-02-02 03:00:42 |
| Speaking at the launch of McLaren's new car for 2012, Lewis Hamilton tells BBC Sport's Jake Humphrey he has "matured" following a difficult 2011 season and "nothing else matters" apart from winning his second world championship.
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Driver Q&A with McLaren's Button and Hamilton |
2012-02-02 00:47:00 |
| Wednesday's launch may have been our first opportunity to glimpse the new McLaren, but it was also the first time either of the British team's drivers had properly laid eyes on the brand-new MP4-27. After ripping the wraps off their shiny new charge, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton revealed their first impressions, looked ahead to next week's debut test and explained why they couldn't wait to get back behind the wheel after a winter of relaxationÂ…
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McLaren unveil the MP4-27 |
2012-02-01 20:24:00 |
| McLaren became the first front-running team to reveal their 2012 challenger on Wednesday, as the wraps came of the new MP4-27 at the team's UK factory in Woking. With it, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton hope to land McLaren their first constructors' crown since 1998.
Unlike the 2012 Caterham launched last week, McLaren have avoided a stepped-nose design by making the whole front end of the chassis lower. “This is a beautiful car,” commented Button
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Button to debut new McLaren at Jerez test |
2012-01-17 18:29:00 |
| McLaren have revealed Jenson Button will be at the wheel of their 2012 car when it makes its track debut at Jerez on February 7. Button will sample the MP4-27 over the opening two days of the test, before handing the car over to team mate Lewis Hamilton for the final two days of running at the Spanish circuit.
Hamilton will then be in charge of the car for the first two days of the second pre-season test, which will take place at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from February 21-24, before Button returns to the cockpit for the final two. The duo will then alternate at the final Barcelona test, which will get underway on March 1.
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Video - FIA Awards 2011 ceremony highlights |
2011-12-14 23:34:00 |
| For the second successive year, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was the toast of the annual FIA Prize Giving Gala. Vettel was handed the coveted 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship trophy by FIA President Jean Todt at this year's event, held last week in New Delhi, India.
Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner, meanwhile, was presented with the 2011 constructors' trophy by Bernie Ecclestone. McLaren's Jenson Button and Red Bull's Mark Webber also received awards for second and third places respectively in the drivers' championship.
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The 2011 Season Review - Part Two |
2011-12-06 01:45:00 |
| McLaren struggled horribly in pre-season testing, trying to get their blown floor working, but reversion to a previous iteration worked miracles for the opening race and they were competitive for much of the season. Hamilton won beautifully in China, then came victory for Button in Canada, the race of the year which had it all
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Weekend wins for Alguersuari, Button, Schumacher, Vettel |
2011-12-05 18:33:00 |
| The 2011 Formula One season may be complete, but that didn't stop at least four F1 drivers picking some much-prized silverware over the weekend, with Jaime Alguersuari, Jenson Button, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel all on the winners' list.
Toro Rosso driver Alguersuari triumphed in the annual charity karting race organised by Ferrari's Felipe Massa in his homeland of Brazil
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VIDEO: Brazilian Grand Prix in 90 seconds |
2011-11-28 15:18:16 |
| Watch the best action from the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix as Red Bull's Mark Webber storms to victory in Interlagos, finishing ahead of team-mate Sebastian Vettel and McLaren's Jenson Button. (UK only)
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FIA post-race press conference - Brazil |
2011-11-28 06:45:00 |
| Drivers: 1 - Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing); 2 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren).
Q: Mark, a win to take you into the winter, how are you feeling right now?
Mark Webber: Yeah, very good. Felt good all weekend to be honest. Seb did a great lap for pole yesterday but y'know today I had a little bit of the rub of the green
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Live - Brazilian Grand Prix |
2011-11-27 23:28:49 |
| World champion Sebastian Vettel starts from pole position for the final race of the 2011 Formula 1 season, with the McLarens of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton sharing the second row.
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FIA post-qualifying press conference - Brazil |
2011-11-27 05:13:00 |
| Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Mark Webber (Red Bull); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren).
Q: Sebastian, a record 15th pole of the season. Describe your feelings at this historic moment?
Sebastian Vettel: Yes, it is difficult. I mean there has been quite some talk before the qualifying
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Practice Three - Vettel leads Button at Interlagos |
2011-11-26 23:22:00 |
| Sebastian Vettel took his turn to top a practice session here at Interlagos on Saturday morning, but the times remained tight as McLaren's Jenson Button was only 0.087s behind and a second covered the first nine cars.
Vettel lapped his Red Bull in 1m 12.460s, while a late improvement put a happier Button second with 1m 12.547s just ahead of Vettel's team mate Mark Webber on 1m 12.597s...
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Final practice - Vettel leads Button at Interlagos |
2011-11-26 23:22:00 |
| Sebastian Vettel took his turn to top a practice session here at Interlagos on Saturday morning, but the times remained tight as McLaren's Jenson Button was only 0.087s behind and a second covered the first nine cars.
Vettel lapped his Red Bull in 1m 12.460s, while a late improvement put a happier Button second with 1m 12.547s just ahead of Vettel's team mate Mark Webber on 1m 12.597s...
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Button yet to find optimal balance |
2011-11-26 04:36:35 |
| Jenson Button said that he has yet to find a balance in his car but is confident he has the solutions to resolve any issues ahead of qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix
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Practice One - Webber fastest for Red Bull at Interlagos |
2011-11-25 22:53:00 |
| Seven-tenths of a second separated the top six drivers after Friday morning's first practice session at Interlagos. Mark Webber set the pace for Red Bull with 1m 13.811s, but he was only 0.014s ahead of Jenson Button, who posted 1m 13.825s, and 0.150s ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who lapped in 1m 13.961s in the second McLaren. Hamilton aborted a final effort to go quicker.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel just failed to break into the 1m 13s with 1m 14.025s, leaving the top four just 0.214s apart, while the Ferraris had a mixed day. On his 100th appearance for them, Felipe Massa was fifth on 1m 14.507s, with Fernando Alonso sixth on 1m 14.541s. The Spaniard took a long while to get going, then stopped near the end after slowing in Turn One with similar engine troubles to those he experienced in India.
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FIA Thursday press conference - Brazil |
2011-11-25 02:10:00 |
| Drivers - Rubens Barrichello (Williams), Jenson Button (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Daniel Ricciardo (HRT), Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) and Bruno Senna (Renault).
Q: Bruno, I think, first of all, you've had a pretty busy time since Abu Dhabi because you came straight here?
Bruno Senna: Yeah, well, to be honest last week I took [off] to rest and to get acclimatised as
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Brazil preview - intense Interlagos hosts fight for final spoils |
2011-11-24 19:37:00 |
| Back in 2009 Red Bull's Mark Webber dominated the Brazilian Grand Prix and would dearly love to close out a winless 2011 season with a repeat victory, as he bids to overhaul McLaren's Jenson Button and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso for second overall.
“Brazil is one of the best races of the year,” the Australian says. “It's a track which reminds me of Brands Hatch and the Formula Ford racing there because it's a like a bowl in terms of the atmosphere. The Brazilian people love their motorsport and are extremely passionate about it, obviously off the back of Piquet, Senna, Fittipaldi and Rubens Barrichello - they've had some really great drivers.
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Exclusive Whitmarsh Q&A: McLaren will turn tables in 2012 |
2011-11-16 21:07:00 |
| They may have won six races this season, but finishing runner-up to Red Bull in both titles has been hard for McLaren to swallow. A tricky winter off-track was followed by a difficult spring on it, and only in the summer did their fortunes finally turn - by which time it was too late.
Team principal Martin Whitmarsh discusses what went wrong, how they put it right and why 2012 will be better, plus the Hamilton-Button dynamic, resource restriction agreements, team politics and moreÂ…
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Hamilton disagrees with Whitmarsh |
2011-11-15 17:34:27 |
| Lewis Hamilton has disagreed with his McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh that he will be fighting with team-mate Jenson Button for a fourth win of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix
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Abu Dhabi analysis - don't call it a comeback |
2011-11-14 19:06:00 |
| Lewis Hamilton's recent troubles have been well documented. Perhaps no surprise then that he described his superb Yas Marina win as 'good for the soul'. And with team mate Jenson Button joining him on the podium, it was good for McLaren too.
Sebastian Vettel may have gone out early, but Hamilton had been quickest all weekend - he even set the fastest qualifying lap, albeit in Q2 - and always looked a good bet for victory
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FIA post-race press conference - Abu Dhabi |
2011-11-14 02:59:00 |
| 1 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 2 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren)
Q: Lewis, describe your feelings after this win. It is one for you mum, hey?
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, absolutely. It's my mum's birthday this weekend and it is great to be able to win while she's here. I feel fantastic. I think it was one of my best races. I said that to myself as I slowed down
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Button rues KERS problems |
2011-11-14 01:26:22 |
| Jenson Button was happy to secure with third place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after a KERS failure robbed him of performance early in the race
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Race - Hamilton victorious after early Vettel exit |
2011-11-14 00:21:00 |
| All weekend there were signs that Lewis Hamilton's mojo was coming back, and a dominant victory in Abu Dhabi was just what the McLaren driver needed. In celebration, he dedicated it to his mother Carmen, whose birthday it was.
He was helped immeasurably as Sebastian Vettel spun into retirement in the second corner as his right-rear tyre came off the rim of his Red Bull, but it wasn't an easy run to the flag as Ferrari's Fernando Alonso grabbed second place from McLaren's Jenson Button on the opening lap and thereafter kept him honest.
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Abu Dhabi GP as it happened |
2011-11-13 20:30:21 |
| Lewis Hamilton wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with Fernando Alonso second and Jenson Button third as world champion Sebastian Vettel suffers a puncture on the first lap.
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Qualifying analysis - can McLaren take the bull by the horns? |
2011-11-13 02:45:00 |
| As he's done 13 times previously this season, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel took the top grid slot during qualifying for Sunday's Abu Dhabi race. But up until Q3 McLaren had ruled the roost and from second and third Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button could well spring a surprise. We take a team-by-team look at how all the runners performedÂ…
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FIA post-qualifying press conference - Abu Dhabi |
2011-11-13 01:55:00 |
| Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren)
Q: Sebastian, you equalled Nigel Mansell's record of 14 poles in a season today, congratulations, but you had to dig pretty deep to get this one?
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Lap 'not perfect' - Button |
2011-11-13 00:38:44 |
| Jenson Button said that he had been struggling with the balance of his McLaren throughout practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix before qualifying third on the grid
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Qualifying - Vettel takes record-equalling pole in Abu Dhabi |
2011-11-12 23:20:00 |
| Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel took his 14th pole position of the season on the final lap of Q3, marking the first time all weekend that a McLaren hadn't been fastest and bringing the German level with Nigel Mansell's seasonal record.
Lewis Hamilton set the pace yet again on the first runs in the McLaren, with 1m 38.704s from Vettel on 1m 38.746s, but then team mate Jenson Button upped the ante as the first driver to complete his second run, with 1m 38.631s. Hamilton responded immediately with 1m 38.622s, but right at the end Vettel, almost inevitably, managed 1m 38.481s for Red Bull.
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Final practice - Hamilton keeps McLaren on top |
2011-11-12 20:27:00 |
| Lewis Hamilton maintained his and McLaren's stranglehold in Saturday afternoon's final practice at Yas Marina, topping a busy hour with the only sub-1m 39s lap of the weekend thus far.
The fastest time changed hands 17 times, as Jerome D'Ambrosio, Sergio Perez, Paul di Resta, Felipe Massa, Jenson Button, Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Adrian Sutil, Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber all had turns at the top
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Button struggling with balance |
2011-11-12 01:29:35 |
| Jenson Button says he has a lot of room for improvement ahead of qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after finishing second to McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton in Friday practice
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Jenson Button Q&A: Victories the priority, not P2 in table |
2011-11-12 00:21:00 |
| He may not be the 2011 champion, but he is one of the undoubted kings of the paddock - suave, polite and affable out of the cockpit, but hard as nails once in it - and without incurring driver penalties. McLaren's Jenson Button could well finish runner-up this season, but his main concern right now is winning in Abu Dhabi - and Friday's form suggests he may well do just that
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Practice Two - Hamilton top as floodlight follows sunlight |
2011-11-11 23:57:00 |
| McLaren ruled the roost in Abu Dhabi on Friday afternoon, as Formula One racing went into the twilight zone around 1700 hours local time. And both Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel fell foul of a slippery Turn One and touched the outer wall in their efforts to keep up.
Vettel and Webber set the initial pace for Red Bull before the sun began to slip from the sky, running the soft Pirellis as the McLarens clocked fast times on the mediums. Then after Alonso had a spell out front for Ferrari, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton took control with 1m 39.586s and team mate Jenson Button trimmed down to 1m 39.785s, 0.199s slower. Alonso's best was 1m 39.971s before he slid off backwards into the wall.
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Practice One - Button takes charge at Yas Marina |
2011-11-11 19:57:00 |
| Jenson Button headed the times after the first practice session here in Abu Dhabi on Friday afternoon, but McLaren team mate Lewis Hamilton and the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel were right there too.
The McLaren drivers spent most of the session pushing one another along, with Button finally setting the fastest time of 1m 40.263s to Hamilton's 1m 40.403s, and right at the end Webber split them with 1m 40.389s, as Vettel ran fourth on 1m 40.755s
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Q&A with McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh |
2011-11-09 21:42:00 |
| With just two races left of what has been a thrilling season, it will come as no surprise that the paddock's attention is increasingly turning towards 2012 and beyond, with talk about regulations and more dominating the build-up to this weekend's 2011 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. In a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes phone in on Wednesday, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh discussed resource restrictions, third cars, aerodynamics, young driver tests and Jenson Button's recent successÂ…
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Petrov signs up for 2011 Race of Champions |
2011-11-02 20:55:00 |
| Renault driver Vitaly Petrov is set to compete at this year's Race of Champions (ROC) event, which will take place in the German city of Dusseldorf next month. The ROC is an annual end-of-season competition which brings together the world's greatest drivers from various motorsport disciplines and pitches them head-to-head in identical machinery.
Russian Petrov will be the first driver from Eastern Europe to compete at the event and will join three Formula One champions - Jenson Button, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel - and Renault reserve Romain Grosjean at the event.
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FIA post-race press conference - India |
2011-10-31 00:15:00 |
| 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Jenson Button (McLaren); 3 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari).
Q: Sebastian, pole, you led every lap and set the fastest lap. Was this your most perfect win of the season do you think?
Sebastian Vettel: Obviously it was a very good race for us. I enjoyed the time in the lead very much. I had a little bit of a fight with Jenson. It was always around four seconds and strangely he kept closing in
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Race - Vettel eases to inaugural Indian victory |
2011-10-30 20:42:00 |
| Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India, but it might as well have been a replay of his victory in Korea a fortnight ago as he simply ran away and hid and left Jenson Button to chase him from a distance.
Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber were even further behind while yet another clash with Felipe Massa left a bitterly disappointed Lewis Hamilton to a seventh-place finish in the McLaren behind the Mercedes duo of Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg.
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Vettel wins Indian Grand Prix |
2011-10-30 17:08:00 |
Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel wins first ever Indian Grand Prix, starting in pole position and never relinquishing first place. Jenson Button is second and Fernando Alonso is third.
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Live - Indian Grand Prix |
2011-10-30 17:00:49 |
| The inaugural Indian Grand Prix starts at 0930 GMT, with Sebastian Vettel on pole, Mark Webber second, Fernando Alonso third and Jenson Button fourth.
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Vettel heads Button at Indian GP |
2011-10-29 16:01:12 |
| Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel is favourite to take the first pole position at the inaugural Indian Grand Prix after going fastest in final practice ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button.
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Massa heads Vettel at Indian GP |
2011-10-28 21:22:16 |
| Ferrari's Felipe Massa is an unlikely pace-setter on the first day of action at the inaugural Indian Grand Prix with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fourth and Jenson Button sixth.
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Exclusive interview - Button on Lewis, Ferrari & life after F1 |
2011-10-28 00:17:00 |
| With the world championship gone, McLaren's Jenson Button isn't that bothered about P2 in the standings per se. But if it means he's beaten the likes of Alonso, Webber and Hamilton, he'll gratefully accept the runner's-up spot. His focus now is race wins and carrying strong form into 2012. Ahead of this weekend's 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India, Button chats to Formula1.com about his new McLaren contract, his future in F1, and what he plans to do when he finally quits the sport
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Button and Webber in Wheldon tribute |
2011-10-27 22:32:00 |
Formula One drivers Jenson Button and Mark Webber will pay a special tribute to late British racer and friend Dan Wheldon at this weekend's inaugural Indian Grand Prix after a grim month for motorsport.
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Race - Vettel win seals Red Bull title in Korea |
2011-10-16 17:17:00 |
| Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel brooked no argument as he dominated Sunday's Korean race, snatching the lead from Lewis Hamilton after the polesitter had led into the first corner and thereafter pulling away to a superb 10th seasonal triumph that left him 12s clear by the end.
While Vettel cleared off into the distance, Hamilton drove brilliantly in McLaren's 700th race to keep a faster Mark Webber for Red Bull at bay as McLaren's Jenson Button and a charging Fernando Alonso in the Ferrari made it a four-way fight for the runner-up slot.
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