Sensational double World Champion driver line-up created as Jenson Button joins Lewis Hamilton at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Woking, 18 November 2009: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is delighted to announce the signing of the reigning World Champion Jenson Button to a multi-year deal. He will be partnered by 2008 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who will be embarking […]
Jenson Button joins McLaren – Official
Jenson Button is joining McLaren F1 from next season to drive alongside former world champion Lewis Hamilton. There has been plenty of speculation surrounding where F1 World Champion Jenson Button will drive for 2010. A visit by Button to McLaren in Woking last week fuelled that speculation, and the announcement that Brawn GP is to […]
Mercedes buys Brawn GP
It has been announced that Brawn GP has sold a 75.1% stake to Mercedes in a move which will see the Brawn GP team renamed Mercedes GP for 2010. The rising from the ashes of Brawn GP from the embers of Honda’s F1 adventure was the stuff of dreams for Ross Brawn. He got his […]
F1: Mercedes sticks with McLaren – Brawn still likely
Mercedes has reaffirmed its partnership with McLaren F1 for 2010 but is looking ever closer to a deal to take a majority stake in Brawn F1 As the F1 season drew to a close at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi yesterday, the whole of the top end of Mercedes Benz management was on […]
Button & Brawn – World Champions
Jenson Button drove a great race to finish fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix and secure his world championship and that of Brawn GP. It’s looked less and less certain that Jenson Button would secure the world championship that seemed to be his from the first race of the Formula One season. But one thing […]
Barrichello wins for Brawn in Monza
Brawn are back, with Rubens Barrichello taking the honours in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and team mate Jenson Button coming home in second place. Brawn made the most of their one-stop strategy in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza this afternoon, taking the top two positions and cementing their lead in the constructors […]
Rubens wins in Valencia
Well, it’s been a long time coming – five years – but Rubens Barrichello has finally stood on the top step of the podium once again, after driving an exemplary race from the second row to take victory in his Brawn in the European Grand Prix in Valencia. Rubens has had a moan or two […]
Button wins in Istanbul
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 […]
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 […]