McLaren accused Michael Schumacher of using tough tactics to prevent Lewis Hamilton getting past for much of Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.
McLaren unveiled their new Formula One car on Sunday, certain it cannot be any worse than last year's but still unsure when they might get back to winning ways after their longest drought in decades. The former champions have not won a race since 2012 and finished last season, the first of a new partnership with Honda, ninth of the 10 teams with just 27 points compared to 703 for dominant Mercedes. The three years without a win is the team's longest barren stretch since their absence from the top step of the podium in 1994-96. "As we embark on the second year of our renewed McLaren-Honda partnership, all of us remain united in our purpose. That purpose is to develop our team towards our shared ambition: to win," said McLaren boss Ron Dennis. "We'll make no predictions as to when those wins will come," he added. The new MP4-31 car was presented online in a predominantly black livery with some prominent new sponsors in LVMH's sparkling wine brand Chandon and watchmaker Richard Mille replacing the departed Tag Heuer.
FIA said its World Motor Sport Council had agreed to cancel a Paris hearing scheduled for February 14 to assess McLaren's 2008 car.
McLaren have formally lodged an appeal against the decision not to penalise three drivers in the Brazilian Grand Prix because of fuel irregularities.
McLaren boss Ron Dennis called time on 43 years in Formula One on Thursday when he handed complete control of the company's racing affairs to team principal Martin Whitmarsh. McLaren said in a statement that Dennis would become executive chairman of McLaren Automotive, effectively walking away from the world of grands prix to lead the British-based company's new sports car business.
Ron Dennis's revelation will only fuel speculation that the world champion will move on at the end of the season, with a return to Renault the most likely.
McLaren played down reports of a "raid" on their factory by inspectors checking for signs of leaked Ferrari data in the design of their 2008 car.
McLaren are in no rush to sign a successor to departed double world champion Fernando Alonso.
Former Toyota driver Ralf Schumacher dropped heavy hints on Sunday that he would leap at the chance to fill the McLaren seat vacated by Fernando Alonso.
McLaren may be willing to take a $100 million hit in the interests of Formula One, team boss Ron Dennis said.
It was the first time Verstappen, winner of a record 19 of 22 races last year, has won the first two races of a season. He has also won 19 of the last 20.
The Spaniard took pole position alongside team mate Lewis Hamilton in an all-McLaren front row for the Italian Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso is no longer on speaking terms with British rookie Lewis Hamilton after the Hungarian GP.
The McLaren Formula One team have argued successfully in Britain that a record 32 million pound fine they paid after a 2007 spying controversy should be tax deductible.
Ferrari's Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday in a triumphant return two weeks after appendicitis surgery as Red Bull's World champion Max Verstappen suffered his first retirement in two years.
Lewis Hamilton has made the right move in leaving McLaren if he wants to win more Formula One titles, former teammate Fernando Alonso said on Thursday.
McLaren were fined $10,000 and issued with a reprimand on Saturday after Lewis Hamilton stopped on the track immediately after taking pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix.
Triple Formula One world champion Jackie Stewart advised Lewis Hamilton on Saturday to stay at McLaren and 'the devil you know' rather than risk a move to Mercedes for next season.
The final version of a report which has already revealed a system of state-sponsored doping in Russia is still several months away, its author Richard McLaren said on Friday.
Jenson Button celebrated his 50th Formula One race for McLaren by ending a three-year wait and taking pole position in qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
Button said he was confident the team would overcome its "current difficulties" to achieve great successes in the future.
McLaren sent Fernando Alonso a clear signal on Friday that they would welcome him back, despite a major falling out in 2007, should the Spaniard seek to leave Ferrari.
McLaren's sporting director Sam Michael has taken a refreshing approach to his Formula One team's pitstop problems by promising that the beers will be on him once the crew average three seconds a stop.
Lewis Hamilton's Formula One title defence remained alive on Wednesday after his McLaren team was handed a suspended three-race ban for lying to race stewards. The governing International Automobile Federation said after a hearing in Paris that the contrite way in which McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh had apologised for the team's behaviour was taken into account.
Ron Dennis is to stand down as McLaren F1 team principal on March 1 and will be replaced by chief executive Martin Whitmarsh.
History suggests that when drivers are fighting for race wins and championships, and enjoy equal status in the same competitive cars, then real friendship is often the first casualty.
As speculation flared, a McLaren spokesperson said, 'At the moment we do not want to confirm our complete 2005 driver lineup.'
McLaren will support the rising career of Cheng Congfu in a bid to discover the first Chinese Formula One superstar.
McLaren have been placed at the slow end of the pitlane since they were stripped of all their points in 2007 due to a spying controversy.
Alonso was given a five-place demotion for unnecessarily impeding his team mate and championship leader Lewis Hamilton in the pitlane in the final seconds of qualifying
British rookie Lewis Hamilton finished second in the Malaysian GP to hand McLaren their first one-two since 2005.
Ron Dennis likened his Italian Grand Prix weekend to a "difficult, emotional rollercoaster" and even as he said it, the McLaren boss knew that the stomach-churning ride was far from over.
McLaren are bracing for a Ferrari fightback in Malaysia next weekend after the Formula One champions endured their worst start to a season in 16 years. In a race with only seven cars still running at the finish, Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen picked up the single point after Honda's Brazilian Rubens Barrichello was disqualified from sixth place for a pit lane infringement.
Formula One will be badly damaged if 'grubby' legal manoeuvring leads to Kimi Raikkonen losing his title to McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in a courtroom, Ferrari's lawyer said.
McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan "behaved disgracefully" by copying and keeping documents belonging to Formula One rivals Ferrari, London's High Court heard on Tuesday.
And in tribute to the enormously special way with which he attacks the exit of a corner, I suggest a new nickname for the man likely to keep things thrilling all year around: Kimi Raikkonen, apex predator, says Raja Sen.
McLaren apologised to Formula One rivals Red Bull on Tuesday after a standard engine control unit that they supply to all teams contributed to Mark Webber's poor start at his home Australian Grand Prix.
McLaren's Jenson Button won the Formula One season-opening Australian Grand Prix ahead of world champion Sebastian Vettel on Sunday.
