• ‘I just hope he wins by more than seven points’• Lewis Hamilton says Mark Webber deserves to win title• Check out all the F1 drivers’ title permutationsFernando Alonso is the favourite to win the Formula One world championship in Abu Dhabi on Sunday but if he does so by fewer than seven points it [...]
Something seems to happen to the English when they have won the biggest prize – ask Jenson Button• Check out all the F1 drivers’ title permutationsJenson Button is such an Englishman, isn’t he? After a decade of struggle in the unforgiving world of Formula One, he finally captured the world championship last year. Yesterday he [...]
Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton can all still win the F1 title in Abu Dhabi, but what permutations do they need?And then there were four …As we reach the final grand prix of the season, the Formula One drivers’ championship is now down to just four contenders. Jenson Button can no [...]
• Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel hints he will help Mark Webber• Spaniard only needs second in Abu Dhabi to win third titleFernando Alonso claims to be “100%” confident that he will become Formula One’s world champion for a third time in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.The Spaniard finished behind Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in yesterday’s [...]
SEBASTIAN VETTEL made sure the battle for …
JORGE LORENZO rounded off his World MotoGP titl…
Escaping an armed hijack and relinquishing the Formula One title made for a strange day at the office for the British driverA year ago in São Paulo, fifth place in the Brazilian grand prix brought Jenson Button his heart’s desire. Today a similar result closed the curtain on his hopes of retaining his world championship. [...]
• Sebastian Vettel win secures constructors title for Red Bull• Lewis Hamilton’s hopes crumble after Briton finishes fourthThe Brazilian grand prix represented the high-water mark in the short but brilliant story of Red Bull. This was their eighth win of the season and their fourth one-two placement.The result, moreover, gave them their first world championship [...]
• Driver and crew attacked by gunmen on leaving Interlagos• Sauber mechanics suffer similarly and relieved of their valuablesGuiding a 750-horsepower projectile around a grand prix circuit at 200mph is one thing. Being confronted on your way home from work by half a dozen men with automatic weapons and bad intentions is another. Formula One [...]
• Driver was accompained by father, manager and trainer• Button was in armoured vechile driven by policemanJenson Button escaped unharmed following an armed attack on the car carrying the reigning Formula One world champion and his father John away from the Interlagos circuit in São Paulo.Button’s manager, Richard Goddard, and trainer, Mike Collier, were also [...]
THE Incredible Hulk shock…
The Australian driver has turned on his own team as his Formula One title push goes down to wireThe sharks and scavengers of the Formula One paddock enjoy nothing more than an outbreak of fratricide, and the Red Bull team could not have chosen a more telling moment at which to expose their internal strife. [...]
• Williams clinch first pole since May 2005• Red Bull duo will start in second and thirdNico Hulkenberg caused a sensation in qualifying for the Brazilian grand prix by claiming Williams’s first pole position for five and a half years. Not since the European grand grix at the Nurburgring in May 2005 have the team [...]
A run-down on the five left in the battle for the championship, including their records at Interlagos and their form this seasonFernando Alonso2010 record: five wins, nine top-threes, 231 pts, two DNFsLast five races: 1st (most recent), 3rd, 1st, 1st, DNF: 90ptsBrazilian GP record: Has finished on the podium five times and has been outside [...]
Spaniard could clinch the Formula One drivers’ championship this weekend but he needs a reliable engine to do itA shared Latin culture is what makes Fernando Alonso feel at home in the Ferrari team but, as he attempts to secure his third world championship in Brazil this weekend, the Spaniard has been assiduously maintaining the [...]