What happens when two world class F1 drivers try to build their own car without their team? Vodafone McLaren Mercedes drivers depend on their team.
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Formula 1 caught up with the brit team in a pre-candaian GP chat… Jenson Button, McLaren. 2008 Qualifying – 20th, 2008 Race – 11th. “It’s fantastic to be going back to Montreal after a year away. I think everyone in Formula One loves the city, the people and the track, so it’s very fitting that [...]
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Saturday’s Turkish Grand Prix was impressive, without a doubt. It was a great exhibition of close racing and fighting for pole position which has re-enforced the ethos of F1, and that’s racing. Despite a relativley slow start, the action really hotted up around lap 40, Vettel and Webber had the inevitable duel, after all they’re [...]
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Lewis Hamilton may have had a slow set-off to the 2010 F1 season, be he insists his rivals would be foolish to write him off just yet. Currently sitting at 7th place with no wins so far and trailing team mate Jenson Button by 11 points, Hamilton’s not in the ideal spot for title contention, [...]
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McLaren have joined the list of teams pushing for the return of KERS in time for the 2011 Formula One season. What is KERS? The acronym KERS stands for Kinetic Energy Recovery System. The device recovers the kinetic energy that is present in the waste heat created by the car’s braking process. It stores that [...]
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The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Driver Jenson Button, will unveil a plauqe bearing his name and be added to the Avenue of Champions. The Avenue of Champions is a tribute to all drivers and riders who have raced on the Circuit and have won at least one World Championship. Jenson Button, born in England on 19th [...]
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Jenson Buttons fantastic set of performances so far have not been easy, but he has shown his racing credentials. “We still had to sort of explore quite a bit in practice in China, and we only really got a good handle on the car by the time we got into Q3 on Saturday”. The McLaren team [...]
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So, the champion wins, again. We know Lewis and Jenson are worthy of the titles they have won and the latest exhibition of driving excellence really has proved that. When the rain came it wasn’t clear that we we’re in with a chance… The boys really hung in there and with some challenging opponents, namely [...]
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With Jenson Button’s positive start and Hamilton’s wheel spinning antics, many critics thought this year would be buttoned up. Lewis’ distance from his ex-manager father seemed to be a bad choice after poor performance, off track troubles and even back-biting over the team radio. Jenson is the only Brit to win a race this season. [...]
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I feel a bit sorry for JB. I can’t remember the last time a driver won the championship and so many people said he didn’t deserve it. Actually I can, it was when Kimi Raikkonen lucked his way into pipping our boy Lewis to the post by 1 point in 2007, but aside from that [...]
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