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Button wins Australian GP

Button wins Australian GP McLaren\'s world champion Jenson Button won the Australian Formula One Grand Prix the second straight year on Sunday. Robert Kubica finished second in a Renault and Felipe Massa was third in a Ferrari. Fernando Alonso was fourth to retain the world championship...

Hamilton hugs Button, makes peace with team

Hamilton hugs Button, makes peace with team Lewis Hamilton has mended fences with McLaren a day after castigating his Formula One team for denying him a podium with their "fricking terrible" pitstop strategy at the Australian Grand Prix. "The team has explained to me its reasoning behind the second pitstop, and I can understand what it was trying to do," the 2008 world champion said on his website (www.lewishamilton.com) on Monday. Hamilton had been chasing Renault\'s Robert...

Beware F1 ticket scam

Beware F1 ticket scam The Shanghai operator of Formula One Racing warned yesterday against buying "gift tickets" for the 2010 F1 China Grand Prix from scalpers. They\'re probably fakes. Shanghai Juss Event Co Ltd, the local operator of the F1 event, said it used to offer a small number of free tickets to staff and other companies as a reward for contributing and supporting the event. However, the quantity of these tickets will be slashed by at least 80 percent this year to prevent...

Alonso scoffs at boring F1 label

Alonso scoffs at \'boring\' F1 label Fernando Alonso had some advice for viewers turned off by the underwhelming spectacle of Formula One\'s season-opener in Bahrain - \'go watch something else!\' New rules, including a ban on refuelling, designed to inject excitement into the championship and discourage drivers from playing safe, fell flat at Sakhir, resulting in a procession decided at qualifying. "I think we need to be calm, we need to wait some races to see if the new rules have some...

Schumacher revealing little about title hopes

Schumacher revealing little about title hopes Severn-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher refuses to divulge his personal goals on his return to the circuit after three years in retirement as he fears they could come back to bite him. The German\'s first race back yielded a sixth place finish at the season-opener in Bahrain, one behind fellow German and Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg, a performance the 41-year-old said yesterday he was satisfied with. "This is the first race...

Button cautious after poor first race

Button cautious after poor first race Formula One world champion Jenson Button has set his sights on the successful defense of his title, but remains less certain about his path back to the winner\'s podium after a disappointing season opener. Despite feeling "completely at home" with McLaren and fellow world champion Lewis Hamilton, the British driver said his new team would still be playing catch-up at the Australian Grand Prix this weekend. "I think Red Bulls are very...

Victorious Ferrari debut for Alonso

Victorious Ferrari debut for Alonso Fernando Alonso won the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix and led a Ferrari one-two in a dream debut with the Italian glamour team yesterday. In a race led for more than two thirds of the distance by Germany\'s Sebastian Vettel before the Red Bull slowed and was reeled in, the Spaniard laid down a marker for the season with his 22nd career victory. "There is no better way to start the relationship," declared the double world champion...

Massa promises a clean race

Massa promises a clean race Brazilian Felipe Massa, who races for the Ferrari Formula 1 team, announced on Monday that he has no plans of playing dirty in order to win in next Sunday\'s race in Interlagos, Sao Paulo. The race will decide the winner of this year\'s World Championship of Drivers. On one of his many promotional appearances, Massa took time to stop by an elementary school in Campo Grande, Sao Paulo. In front of more than 400 kids, Massa gave a motivational speech to the children...

Indias Chandhok secures F1 drive

India\'s Chandhok secures F1 drive India\'s Karun Chandhok will make his Formula One race debut with HRT this season, the new Spanish-based team said in a statement yesterday. The 26-year-old Chennai-born driver will partner Brazilian rookie Bruno Senna at the cash-strapped team, which has changed its name from Campos Meta, when the season starts in Bahrain next week. "We have been very impressed with Karun\'s performance in GP2," said team principal Colin Kolles. "It will be...

Ecclestone mulling F1 return to Indy

Ecclestone mulling F1 return to Indy Indianapolis is still a logical venue for a US Formula One Grand Prix and an eventual return is on the cards, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said. "It is. It\'s only the fact that it\'s all the wrong crowd and the wrong people ... nothing worked there really, we\'d have to have a big change round," the Briton told Reuters at today\'s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. "But we\'d like to get back there." Asked whether the United...