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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.

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Lewis Hamilton admitted his car’s deficiencies

Published on: 10th May, 2009

Lewis Hamilton has all-but admitted that his car’s deficiencies mean he will not be able to mount a successful defence of the world championship.

The McLaren Mercedes driver finished ninth in the Spanish Grand Prix – Hamilton’s usual optimism conspicuous by its absence in the immediate aftermath of the race at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Starting 14th on the grid, Hamilton fell even further down the field on the opening lap following an accident that caused the retirement of four cars.

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Jenson Button urges F1 chiefs not to ban Lewis Hamilton over Liargate

Published on: 24th April, 2009

Jenson Button has insisted it would be bad for Formula One if world championship rival Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren team were banned from the sport over ‘Liargate’.

Ahead of the opening practice session for Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Button spoke up for Hamilton despite the potential threat his fellow Briton poses to his own title hopes.

Next Wednesday, McLaren appear before the World Motor Sport Council in Paris to answer charges of lying and cheating in an attempt to deprive Toyota’s Jarno Trulli of third place in the season-opening Grand Prix in Full Article

Hamilton left isolated as his team turn against him in China

Published on: 18th April, 2009

Lewis Hamilton is as lonely as it is possible to be in the world’s most populous land. More than 1.3billion people live in China, yet it seemed that Hamilton could count his friends on the fingers of one hand ahead of Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix.

Already grievously hurt by the damage he did to his own reputation by lying to the stewards over how Jarno Trulli came to pass him under the safety car at the opening round in Australia on March 29, the support network Hamilton has counted on for more than a decade was falling down around him in the Shanghai paddock.

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Don’t blame Hamilton for lying when it goes on all the time in F1

Published on: 12th April, 2009

Lying is a strangely emotive thing. We all do it, probably every single day of our lives in some way, however big or small. To bosses, parents, schoolteachers, girlfriends, traffic wardens.

Show me someone who claims never to have lied and I will instantly denounce them as the most boring creature that ever walked on earth. Yet calling someone a liar is still perceived to be one of the worst insults you can throw at a fellow human being.

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