F1

Button pays his way to title

Published on: 22nd October, 2009

Formula One world champion Jenson Button has admitted it was a luxury to travel on team-mate Rubens Barrichello’s private jet after financing the majority of his own flights from race to race this season.

The 29-year-old Briton secured the Full Article

Schumi boost for Vettel

Published on: 22nd October, 2009

Michael Schumacher has encouraged Sebastian Vettel not to be disheartened following the end of his fellow German’s title challenge.

Vettel’s chances of winning the title were ended on Sunday at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after Jenson Button secured the necessary points to claim the title with one race still remaining.

The young German remarked in the aftermath of the race at Interlagos that “second is the first loser,” and “I don’t really care about second or third,” but Schumacher has encouraged his countryman not to Full Article

Jenson Button gets off lightly despite first-lap fracas as Kimi Raikkonen claims victory

Published on: 31st August, 2009

Jenson Button’s contribution to the Belgian Grand Prix ended in the grass when he was ensnared in a four-car pile-up on the first lap.

Yet, somehow, the championship leader’s title ambitions were no more than grazed.

That was the upshot of a topsy-turvy afternoon, which reminded the world of the unpredictability of motor racing when it is played out on this historic track of plunging dips and soaring climbs.

Victory went to Ferrari for the first time this season, with Kimi Raikkonen edging out Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella and Sebastian Vettel, of Full Article

Jenson enters the history books as Brawn seal Monaco one-two

Published on: 24th May, 2009

Jenson Button earned himself a place in Formula One’s history books with a
pole-to-flag victory in today’s Monaco Grand Prix.

It was Button’s fifth win in six races, and he joins a pantheon of F1 greats to achieve such a feat, after Alberto Ascari (1952), Juan Manuel Fangio (1954), Jim Clark (1965), Sir Jackie Stewart (1969), Nigel Mansell (1992) and Michael Schumacher (1994, 2002 and 2004).

The brilliant Briton also spearheaded a third Brawn GP one-two of the season, stretching his convincing Full Article

Formula 1 – McLaren Preview

Published on: 18th May, 2009

2008 winner Lewis Hamilton is hoping for a better showing in Monaco this weekend on his favourite circuit…

Lewis Hamilton: “Monaco is my favourite circuit. The sensation you get from racing up the hill at 175mph, trying to make as straight a line as possible between the barriers while just shaving them with the walls of the tyres is unbelievable – the best sensation you could ever have in a Formula One car. There’s an expectation that Monaco will Full Article

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