Former championship favourite Jenson Button is being swallowed up by F1’s fascinating 2012 season. The first winner this year, Briton Button’s form has been sliding recently and it hit rock ...
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Drivers warn McLaren to fix backwards slide
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button winced late on Sunday whilst maintaining the ‘win together, lose together’ mantra after yet another bad weekend for McLaren. “We still came away with some ...
Read More »Button ‘worried’ about topsy-turvy 2012
F1’s topsy-turvy 2012 risks turning off confused fans, Jenson Button has warned. The McLaren driver was the first of the sport’s five winners so far this season, with a sixth ...
Read More »‘Tactical’ retirements for gearbox rule gain – report
Two teams deployed a quiet ‘trick’ in Bahrain in order to exploit a loophole in the long-life gearbox rules, a specialist publication claims. Williams’ Pastor Maldonado had to move five ...
Read More »Button not keen to test at Mugello next week
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 ...
Read More »Pirelli making F1 a ‘show’ or a ‘lottery’?
Tyres. The political dramas aside, that word utterly dominated the Bahrain grand prix weekend. Afterwards, Michael Schumacher admitted he was “unhappy” with the situation. “Sometimes we are driving only 60, ...
Read More »Picking winner like spinning roulette wheel in Bahrain
It is a measure of the exhilarating 2012 season so far that the sport’s battle-hardened experts were surprised on Saturday. In the centre of the official post-qualifying press conference sat ...
Read More »Mercedes’ double-DRS ‘not massive’ gain – Button
Jenson Button doubts other teams will be pushing too hard to rush a Mercedes-style ‘double-DRS’ to their 2012 package. The F-duct-style concept is, so far, the highest profile innovation of ...
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