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F1: Button launches his 2010 triathlon charity bid

Jenson Button needs your help – to help make a success of his 2010 London Triathlon bid and beat last year’s total of nearly £20,000 raised for the children’s charity of which he is a patron.

June 18, 2010

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Tagged as: Formula One, Jenson Button
F1: Lewis Hamilton ‘taking nothing for granted’

Lewis Hamilton may currently be topping the drivers’ championship – but he is taking nothing for granted, according to a news item just posted on his website.

June 18, 2010

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Tagged as: Formula One, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren
F1: Hamilton and Button win thriller in Canada

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button triumphed in an engrossing five-way battle for supremacy at a Canadian Grand Prix dominated by the struggle to manage extreme tyre wear over the 70 laps of the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

June 13, 2010

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Tagged as: Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton
F1: Canadian Grand Prix liveblog 2010

For the first time this season there isn’t a Red Bull driver on pole, but Lewis Hamilton got his McLaren out front during qualifying in part by gambling on the softer type of tyre – will he pay for that decision during the race?

June 13, 2010

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Tagged as: Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton
F1: Hamilton breaks the Red Bull qualifying streak

Lewis Hamilton broke the dominance of Red Bull in this season’s qualifying sessions by seizing pole position in Canada – but it took a car so light with fuel that he had to push it towards the pits afterwards.

June 12, 2010

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Tagged as: Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber
F1: Paffett says testers need more hands-on experience

Formula One’s test and reserve drivers need to get hands-on experience during race weekends if they are to be ready to step into a car when needed, according to one of the most experienced testers out there.

June 12, 2010

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Tagged as: DTM, F1 testing, Formula One, Gary Paffett, McLaren, Mercedes
David Coulthard awarded MBE in Birthday Honours list

David Coulthard, the former Williams, McLaren and Red Bull driver who became the highest-scoring Briton ever to drive in Formula One, has received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

June 12, 2010

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Tagged as: David Coulthard, Formula One
Put your questions to the experts who fuel Ferrari’s F1 cars

Is there something you’ve always been dying to know about how Formula One is fuelled – the rules, science and technology that surround what the world’s most expensive race cars put in their tanks?

June 12, 2010

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Tagged as: Ferrari, Formula One, Shell V-Power
F1: Spotlight on McLaren’s chief engineer

Ever wondered what occupies the thoughts of a Formula One team’s chief engineer immediately before a grand prix? Today McLaren has decided to give us an insight into this question.

June 11, 2010

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Tagged as: Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Formula One, McLaren, Tim Goss
F1: Montreal practice sees close fight between top teams

Sebastian Vettel has re-written the script for this weekend by topping timesheets at the second Formula One practice session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.

June 11, 2010

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Tagged as: Canadian Grand Prix, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, F1 practice, Ferrari, Formula One, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, McLaren, Mercedes GP, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, Red Bull, Sebastian Vettel