Surprise, surprise! Jenson Button has won the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul, making it six wins out of seven and what is beginning to look like an unassailable lead in the drivers (and constructors) championship. Contrary to recent form, Button failed by a whisker to take pole position in Q3 qualifying yesterday, having to cede […]
Button wins in Monaco – another Brawn 1-2
This year’s Formula One season is starting to turn in to a cross between a Roy of the Rovers special and a Disney Fairytale. Not content with simply getting the Brawn GP team up and running just in time for the start of the season, and then going on to win four of the first […]
F1 Budget Cap – No two-tier system says Ecclestone
All eyes have gone off the stunning start to this year’s F1 circus with the news that Ferrari, Renault, Red Bull and several other teams have threatened to quit F1 next year in protest at the budget cap proposal and the two-tier system that appears to create. In a nutshell, the FIA – lead by […]
Mercedes want in with Brawn GP
With Brawn GP wiping the floor with everything on the F1 circus this season, and particularly World Champions McLaren, it is being reported that Mercedes are seeking a closer relationship with the new darlings of the paddock. At the moment Mercedes supplies engines to Brawn GP on a customer basis. In other words, Brawn GP […]
Button wins in Barcelona – another Brawn 1-2
Brawn’s fairytale season continues, with Jenson Button taking the win in Barcelona, with team mate Rubens Barrichello in second place. Button lost first place to team mate Barrichello off the line but, after a safety car on the first lap, strategy genius Ross Brawn moved Button on to a two-stop strategy, which proved a master […]
McLaren F1 get three race ban – suspended
McLaren don’t have an easy time of it – but a big chunk of it has been of their own making. They have been pretty well punished for the furore over the Ferrari information they purloined last year, and their relationship with the sport’s governing body has never been great. So there was an expectation […]
Bahrain F1 win for Button & Brawn GP
Jenson Button wins the F1 Grand Prix in Bahrain for Brawn GP, the third Brawn GP victory of the season, with Barrichello in fifth. Vettel 2nd; Trulli 3rd.
Vettel and Webber make it a 1-2 for Red Bull in China
This is the most topsy-turvy start to a Grand Prix season in many a year. First we have a rookie team – Brawn GP, which didn’t even exist a few weeks ago – taking the lead and winning the first two races of the season. And now, in Shanghai at the Chinese Grand Prix, Red […]
Brawn GP wins diffuser row
In a ruling today by the FIA court of appeal, it was decided that the contentious rear diffuser used by 3 teams this year, including Brawn GP, is legal.
Button wins for Brawn GP in Malaysia
Jenson Button has chalked up his second successive victory for Brawn GP at a rain sodden Malaysian Grand Prix today.