Tag Archives: Gary Paffett

McLaren ended last season without fully understanding where it went so wrong with the 2013 car. That is the claim of the Woking based team’s main test driver Gary Paffett, ...

Robert Kubica has been left out of Mercedes’ lineup for the German touring car series DTM in 2013. Last month, the Pole tested one of the German marque’s cars, with ...

Long-time McLaren test driver Gary Paffett says Lewis Hamilton’s decision to switch to Mercedes is puzzling. Throughout Briton Hamilton’s six-year racing tenure with McLaren, countryman Paffett, now 31, has split ...

Jenson Button has admitted he sees no point to changing McLaren’s Mugello test programme next week. After the British team struggled for pace on Pirelli’s complex tyres last weekend in ...

Lewis Hamilton is rethinking McLaren’s scheduled approach to the rare and crucial in-season test at Mugello next week. The British team announced last week that both Hamilton and his teammate ...

Team test driver Gary Paffett has admitted McLaren is hoping Lewis Hamilton has “sorted himself out” after a tumultuous 2011. F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone told Austria’s Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper ...

Gary Paffett insists he is not “bitter” despite sitting on the sidelines while his 2010 rival is now hot property in formula one. The Briton, under long term contract to ...

Mercedes would promote “one of our test drivers” to the race cockpit should regulars Michael Schumacher or Nico Rosberg be unable to drive in 2011. Sergio Perez’s recovery from his ...