Jenson Button cruised to a dominant season opening victory in Australia today, calmly underlining his title credentials at the earliest opportunity. The 2009 world champion snatched the lead off the line from team mate Lewis Hamilton and never looked threatened, at one stage building a 10 second lead. After a safety car period, Button was… [Read more…]
March 17, 2012
McLaren today turned out to be the form team in Australia, locking out the front row of the Melbourne grid with a fast, efficient performance at 2012′s first qualifying session. Lewis Hamilton will lead the pack early tomorrow morning after a sensational lap gave him the perfect start to the new season. Team mate Jenson… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
Australia should stay on the Formula One calendar, despite what Bernie Ecclestone is quoted as saying tonight. Reportedly, the F1 supremo is saying the organisers need to install floodlights to push the race into European prime time. He’s wrong. As entertaining and spectacular as Singapore and particularly Abu Dhabi are, the race in Melbourne Park… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Sebastian Vettel won Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix for Red Bull, ahead of Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren and Vitaly Petrov for Renault.
March 27, 2011
Sebastian Vettel has cruised to victory in Australia, leading from lights to flag in dominant fashion. The 23-year-old world champion stopped twice and never looked under any real threat from a pursuing Lewis Hamilton, who was hampered in the second half of the race by a broken floor. Vettel always looked like he had extra… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
Lewis Hamilton has promised to give Sebastian Vettel the “race of his life” when they line up alongside each other on the front of the grid in Melbourne tomorrow. The McLaren driver is a shock inclusion on the front row after the British team worked miracles to turn a poor car from testing into a… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
Sebastian Vettel will take his familiar position at the head of the grid for the first race of 2011 after storming to pole like the winter had never happened. The world champion was untouchable in qualifying, setting a 1m 23.529s, well clear of the field. Lewis Hamilton somehow managed to throw his McLaren on to the… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
Jenson Button has marked out his territory at McLaren taking a brilliant first victory for the Woking team in 2010, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton trailing home in sixth. A brave early call put him on slick tyres earlier than everyone else and he made them work all the way to the finish, pumping in personal… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
Formula One fans will be stocking up on the coffee this week as the circus arrives in Melbourne but will it be worth getting up early? Bahrain was a snooze-fest. It’s been well documented, everyone’s had their say. Suffice to say the problem was not entirely down to the desert track – though the absurdly… [Read more…]
March 18, 2012
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