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Unlike the current reigning world champion, Jenson Button is not afraid of competing in other sports during the racing season, and it has been announced that the current 2009 title leader will participate in the London Triathlon later this year. Jenson, who turned 29 earlier in the year, will endure a 1500 metre swim, a 40km bike ride before topping it all off with a 10km run around the Docklands area of the UK’s capital. Continue Reading

Today was a day that could have seen the McLaren team receive any number of punishments as a result of their actions in Australia at the beginning of the season. The team was called to appear before the FIA WMSC in Paris to defend several charges laid against them that they have brought the sport into disrepute. However, in light of the team’s cooperation with the FIA and a change in culture at the team, a three race ban has been suspended. Continue Reading

Do you remember when all-and-his-mother were saying how good Lewis Hamilton will be for Formula One, that the young Briton will inspire countless others, become a great role-model and help lift the sport to new highs? Well to a degree, I feel Hamilton has achieved this goal put on him by others, but I also feel that some of the McLaren driver’s rivals are doing a far better job of raising Formula One’s global profile amid controversy and gloomy forecasts. Continue Reading

Round four of the 2009 Formula One World Championship got underway earlier today with the first practice session at the Sakhir circuit. Like in Shanghai last weekend, the McLarens are showing revitalised pace with Lewis Hamilton going fastest and team mate Heikki Kovalainen breaking for lunch in sixth. The Williams of Nico Rosberg was high up the order as well, as were the Brawns and BMWs. Even the Ferraris managed to get both cars into the top ten. Continue Reading

Running has begun in Shanghai for this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix. Now that the diffuser issue has been settled we can return to racing and although there is the possibility of further sanctions against McLaren, it hasn’t stopped them or slowed them down. Lewis Hamilton headed the tables after the first 90 minute session, and team mate Heikki Kovalainen wasn’t far behind in fourth. the Woking team are running an interim ‘double diffuser’. Continue Reading

Following the saga of the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix, McLaren have been summoned by the FIA World Motor Sport Council to answer charges that they have brought the sport into disrepute. The charges come after it was realised that Lewis Hamilton and David Ryan failed to disclose all the information available to them at a stewards inquiry in Melbourne following the on-track passing/re-passing involving Hamilton and Jarno Trulli. Continue Reading

As if Formula One couldn’t get any more controversial and political, Lewis Hamilton has now been stripped of his third place in the Australian Grand Prix last weekend. The news came after the investigation into the incident involving the McLaren driver and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli was reopened in Malaysia, the venue for this weekend’s grand prix. An updated version of the results can be viewed here: Australia 2009: Amended Race Result. Continue Reading

As soon as I type the post, the result comes in; Jarno Trulli has been penalised for overtaking a fellow driver while under safety car control. The incident happened in the final phase of the Australian Grand Prix and results from Trulli slipping off the track and onto the grass. Lewis Hamilton, who was following Trulli had no choice but to pass the Toyota, but Trulli, once recovered, re-passed Hamilton. It was the re-passing of the McLaren that has been deemed incorrect. Trulli has received a 25 second penalty. Continue Reading

In the madness of the second safety car period during the Australian Grand Prix, it seems the reason why Jarno Trulli made it into third as opposed to Lewis Hamilton as we had been expecting was down to an incident involving Trulli. Both drivers have been summoned to the race stewards office to discuss the incident, which saw Trulli re-pass Hamilton under the safety car period. If the stewards deem Trulli to be in the wrong, Hamilton would be promoted to third and Trulli down the finishing order. Continue Reading

The first race of the season usually throws up some form of protest, or at minimum a bit of a sulk, but so far in Melbourne, the diffuser issue came to a head with no consequences as of yet and the Toyota drivers have been sent to the back of the grid. Williams have also protested the legality of the Ferrari and Red Bull Racing cars. The Toyota issue came about after a routine post-qualifying inspection of the cars, where it was discovered the rear wing mounts were in breach of the regulations. Continue Reading