After fourteen years with McLaren - six of them in Formula One - Lewis Hamilton will say farewell to the team at this weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix. Hamilton has raced with McLaren since the start of 2007, claiming 21 wins, 25 pole positions and the 2008 world championship. He will move to Mercedes for 2013. "Brazil has been the scene of some epic races for me during my time at Vodafone McLaren Merecedes and, for many reasons, this weekend will be a very big race […]

McLaren's battle for the 2012 drivers' and constructors' crowns is over. But Jenson Button said the Woking based team, whose 'supremo' Ron Dennis once famously declared that second is just "first of the losers", is nonetheless determined to be runner-up. Red Bull has now secured the constructors' title for this year, but McLaren is just 14 points behind Ferrari for second place, with just this weekend's Brazilian showdown left to run. Britain's Sun newspaper said the difference between second and third is almost $10 million […]

Sergio Perez is hoping to end his Sauber career on a positive note

The mathematical permutations for the United States Grand Prix

Just two races remain for Marussia to hang on to tenth place in the Constructors Championship. Timo Glock's twelfth place finish in Singapore elevated his team above Caterham in the elusive battle for tenth place. "Going to Austin is a really big thing for the sport and everyone involved. The first race back in the US will be quite something for us. It’s a new track for all of the teams, and already it looks awesome on the simulations we have experienced and the images […]

The FIA has warned drivers about their language after the podium interview in Abu Dhabi featured a couple of expletives. Both Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel swore live on air when being interviewed by David Coulthard. Raikkonen told Coulthard that "last time you guys was giving me shit because I didn’t really smile enough", while Vettel said that his post-race penalty was "obviously a chance to fuck it up". A letter from the FIA to teams said it is "very much our collective responsibility to […]

Sebastian Vettel remains the overwhelming favourite to become 2012 champion, despite Red Bull's qualifying crisis and the loss of 3 points to Fernando Alonso in Abu Dhabi. That is the view of F1 legend Niki Lauda, who was asked by Osterreich newspaper if he has changed his mind after Red Bull bungled qualifying last weekend, forcing Vettel to fight up to the podium from a pitlane start. With just two races to go now, Vettel is 10 points ahead of Ferrari's Alonso. "Nothing has changed," […]

Fernando Alonso almost lost his temper ahead of last Sunday's Indian grand prix, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reports. The newspaper said the Spaniard was furious after the Maranello based team's technical boss Pat Fry blamed the drivers for a sub-standard qualifying performance. "The result reflects our current potential," said Fry after Alonso qualified fifth in India. "But in order to be where we wanted and where we were capable of being, we needed to be perfect today and we weren't," he added. Alonso went […]

Sebastian Vettel's fifth victory of the season inches him towards the title, but Fernando Alonso is still a threat

Sebastian Vettel's fifth victory of the season sees him move thirteen points ahead in the battle for the world championship. Vettel has led every lap of the last three races - a feat not achieved since Ayrton Senna in 1988 - and he says he is happy with his win. "All in all, it was a very good race for us and I’m happy with the result. I had a good start, Mark had a better one and it was close in Turn 1, but […]

Lewis Hamilton expressed his amazement at his McLaren mechanics after they changed his steering wheel during his pit stop. The British driver struggled with a downshift problem, meaning that the team changed his wheel - and did so smoothly and efficiently. "I don’t yet understand why I got such a poor start – it lost me ground and then I fell under attack from the guys behind. During the first lap, I was primarily focusing on not colliding with Jenson, then I saw Fernando [Alonso] […]

Qualifying proved to be a tough task yet again for Mercedes as the team managed to set only the tenth and fourteenth fastest times. Nico Rosberg made it through to the final shootout but the team elected not to set a lap time. "In terms of our strategy for the race, it was better for us not to run in Q3 as it should give us a better pace tomorrow with fresh tyres. Of course it's not a nice feeling to be waiting in the […]