Images from the new Mercedes McLaren car launch, on Friday, by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
McLaren Mercedes launched its new car for the 2010 season on Friday. The MP4-25 will be driven by Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, the reigning world champion having joined the British squad from Brawn GP, with which he won the title last year.
MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi showed impressive pace in a Formula One car at the end of two days of testing with Ferrari in Barcelona on Thursday.
Jenson Button ran away with the Turkish Grand Prix Sunday to stretch his overall Formula One lead to 26 points with a sparkling sixth victory from seven races.
Formula One champion Jenson Button said he was more motivated than ever after his first full day inside the lions' den as Lewis Hamilton's new McLaren team mate. Braving the snow to turn up -- on Hamilton's 25th birthday -- for his first 'proper' visit to the Woking factory, Button relished the challenge ahead after a move decried by some as madness after the greatest year of his life.
Formula One championship leader Jenson Button put himself on pole position for a fifth win in six races after a manic Monaco Grand Prix qualifying session on Saturday. Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 world champion whose Ferrari team are threatening to walk away at the end of the season in a standoff over the 2010 rules, joined the Briton on the front row in a sign of the Italian team's resurgence after a dismal start to the year.
Jenson Button won the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday for his fourth victory in five races.
Former Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said that he is eager to regain his title from new team-mate and reigning champion Jenson Button.
Italian Jarno Trulli seized pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday with Toyota team mate Timo Glock qualifying in second place for the team's first front row sweep. Red Bull's young German Sebastian Vettel, winner in the wet in China last weekend, will start Sunday's race in third place with championship leader Jenson Button alongside in his Mercedes-powered Brawn GP.
Sebastian Vettel took a surprise pole position for Red Bull ahead of Renault's Fernando Alonso in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday. The 21-year-old German grabbed the second pole position of his career, and the first for his Renault-powered team, with a last-gasp lap of one minute 36.184 seconds.
Formula One world champion Jenson Button will start next season with a more aggressively designed McLaren than the one Lewis Hamilton struggled with for much of this year.
Formula One champion Jenson Button says his move to McLaren will take him outside of his comfort zone so he can truly measure himself against Lewis Hamilton.
Kimi Raikkonen will take a year out of Formula One after failing to reach a deal with McLaren for next season the 2007 world champion's manager was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Formula One team boss Ross Brawn has advised world champion Jenson Button that he would do best to stay with him next season rather than jumping to rivals McLaren.
Formula One champion Jenson Button cannot expect to cash in from the Mercedes takeover of Brawn even though the team want him to stay, Brawn chief executive Nick Fry said on Monday.
Jenson Button seized pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday in a fairytale front row sweep for his new Brawn GP team. Brazilian team mate Rubens Barrichello will line up alongside in Sunday's race in a remarkable turnaround for a team who were fighting for their Formula One survival earlier this year.
Lewis Hamilton says he would welcome Jenson Button or anyone else as his McLaren team-mate next year.
Jenson Button is looking forward to the day when he can tell his children that he was Formula One world champion.
Formula One is facing a weekend of farewells just as the sport's newest arrival, Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, prepares to make a spectacular debut.
Britain's Jenson Button put the new Brawn GP Formula One team on top of the testing timesheets in Barcelona on Wednesday while champion compatriot Lewis Hamilton had a difficult day with McLaren. Button, whose car has been both quick and reliable since the former Honda team's test debut on Monday, completed 130 laps with a best time of one minute 19.127 seconds according to unofficial timings.
Formula One world champion Jenson Button is 99 per cent certain to stay with the Brawn team next season, team principal and owner Ross Brawn said on Sunday after reports linking the Briton with rivals McLaren.
The former Honda Formula One team has been saved and will race this season as Brawn GP under new owner Ross Brawn, the renamed team said in a statement on Friday.
If a jubilant Jenson Button had his way, fellow Briton Ross Brawn would have his name on a shiny medal as well as on a championship-winning Formula One car and team.
With a British flag proclaiming 'Great Button' draped over his shoulders, Jenson Button stood and repeated over and over again four of the sweetest-sounding words in the English language.
Jenson Button and his Brawn GP team were crowned Formula One champions on Sunday in a Brazilian Grand Prix won by Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber.
Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix to roar back into the Formula One title reckoning on Sunday while Jenson Button had his overall advantage trimmed to 14 points with two races to go.
Jenson Button would be well advised to listen to the words of Lewis Hamilton after Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix left the Brawn driver on the brink of Formula One glory.
F1 racing driver Jenson Button's ex-ladylove Florence Brudenell-Bruce want more of Bollywood after her bit role in Love Aaj Kal.
Media reports suggested the McLaren driver, whose wife is Japanese, was likely to announce at this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix that he would be leaving Formula One at the end of the year.
Honda's chief executive apologised to British driver Jenson Button after Japan's number two carmaker pulled the plug on its Formula One team on Friday. "It's a real shame and I feel deeply sorry for Jenson Button," the CEO of Honda Motor Co Takeo Fukui told a news conference. 'We had no choice in the current financial conditions.'
Kimi Raikkonen will be rallying in Finland and championship leader Jenson Button competing in a triathlon this weekend while their Formula One teams shut up shop for two weeks.
Rubens Barrichello accused his Brawn GP team of losing him the German Grand Prix in Nuerburgring on Sunday and said he did not want to hear any excuses from them. In an extraordinary outburst, the Brazilian told BBC television that the afternoon had been "a good show from the team on how to lose a race."
Elated Australian Mark Webber shrugged off a drive-through penalty to win the German Grand Prix in Nuerburgring on Sunday and end his long wait for Formula One success. German team mate Sebastian Vettel finished second in a Red Bull one-two to cut Briton Jenson Button's championship lead to 21 points with eight races remaining. Ferrari's Felipe Massa was third, his first podium of the year.
Jenson Button can take his revenge on Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel in front of the German's home fans at the Nuerburgring this weekend, and also restore some pride to Mercedes. Brawn GP's championship leader was well beaten by the 22-year-old Vettel on his home turf at Silverstone last month and is eager to turn the tables on the only other driver to have won races this season.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel seized his second pole position in a row while Formula One leader Jenson Button could qualify only sixth for his home British Grand Prix on Saturday.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa can chalk up his fourth win in a row in Turkey this weekend and stop Formula One leader Jenson Button doing the same. Massa has won the last three Turkish Grand Prix from pole position, while Brawn GP's Button is on a more immediate roll, having won five of six races so far this season and the last three in succession.
Formula One world champion Jenson Button has endorsed the idea of having a Russian Grand Prix after getting a feel of driving round the Kremlin on Sunday.
Formula One drivers have been told that if they gain a place by cutting a chicane, as Lewis Hamilton did in Belgium last weekend, they must hand it back and then wait at least one corner before overtaking. Honda's Jenson Button said at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday that the matter was discussed at the drivers' Friday briefing and a clarification given by race director Charlie Whiting.
Formula One leaders Brawn GP see Red Bull as their main rivals for the championship with Germany's Sebastian Vettel an ever present danger for Jenson Button.
Rubens Barrichello ruled out playing a subservient role to Brawn GP team mate Jenson Button on Sunday and said he would quit Formula One if he got the slightest sniff that the Briton is being favoured. The Brazilian, who finished second to the championship leader after a sudden strategy switch at the Spanish Grand Prix, told a Speed TV reporter he would "hang up his helmet" if he suspected the team are not giving him an equal chance.
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