Talk of a special meeting this weekend to discuss Lewis Hamilton's aggressive driving in 2011 was played down in the Suzuka paddock on Thursday. Multiple reports had said the drivers' meeting with Charlie Whiting would go ahead, but Grand Prix Drivers' Association president Rubens Barrichello and his countryman Felipe Massa - at the centre of the storm in Singapore two weeks ago - indicated it would be business as usual in Japan. "What's past is past and we need to think about the future," said […]

Jenson Button has admitted having a clear number 2 driver is the best approach for a formula one team. Team orders are now legal in F1 and Eddie Irvine, Michael Schumacher's clear supporting driver at Ferrari in the mid nineties, recently hailed Briton Button as the sport's new "best number 2". Button, 31, is actually the only driver still in the running with Sebastian Vettel for the 2011 title, and 17 points ahead of his high profile teammate Lewis Hamilton. He told Die Welt newspaper: […]

Jenson Button has laughed at reports linking him with a move to Ferrari in 2012. The speculation was triggered by the British driver's protracted talks with McLaren over next year and beyond, and spurred on last week by a report in the Brazilian press. It is said Button wants to be contractually free at the end of next year so as to be available when Felipe Massa comes out of contract. "It's hilarious because it's not true," Brazil's Globo Esporte quotes the 2009 world champion […]