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What have fans been talking about in the off-season?
What have racing fans found to talk about since the end of the season? The on-track F1 action may have finished at the Abu Dhabi finale on November 1, but the twists and turns kept on coming, bringing with them new topics of conversation. With Jenson...
F1: Button arrives at McLaren
On January 1 Jenson Button officially became a McLaren driver – and the team has wasted no time in making the most of its latest asset. It started the year with a bank-holiday press release celebrating Button’s appearance in the New Year&...
Brawn GP’s fabulous year wins it two honours list entries
Ross Brawn and Jenson Button have both received awards in the 2009 New Year’s Honours list after their team’s fairytale season saw it become the first ever to win a double championship in its initial year of competition. Brawn has been ap...
F1: Button loses out to Hamilton in Top Gear’s reasonably-priced car
Jenson Button’s second opportunity to put one over new team-mate Lewis Hamilton has come to naught after he was two-tenths of a second slower in Top Gear’s Reasonably-Priced Car challenge. Just a week after the F1 world champion failed to...
Button beaten to BBC Sports Personality of the Year award by Giggs
Jenson Button missed the chance to score a psychological victory over his new team-mate Lewis Hamilton when he could only finish runner-up in the voting for BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Not enough Button fans voted Hamilton famously miss...
Button and Soucek make room on the sideboard for new silverware
It’s the time of year when the season’s most successful teams and drivers are making room in the trophy cabinet – and some of 2009’s more significant silverware was handed over on Friday evening. Jenson Button, Formula One Wo...
Franchitti, Button and Brawn win recognition at BRDC awards
At a time of year when Jenson Button is sweeping all before him, Dario Franchitti’s achievement in winning a second US IndyCar championship has been recognised by the British Racing Drivers’ Club. Franchitti, like Button, was a recipient ...
Dean Smith wins Young Driver award as Moore and Button also triumph
A parade of British champions were honoured at the Autosport Awards tonight, with 15-year-old Ginetta Juniors victor Sarah Moore kicking off the evening by being named Club Driver of the Year. The first female driver to win a race during a BTCC event...
Coulthard: BRDC award is still as important as ever
The first-ever winner of the McLaren Autosport BRDC young driver award has been reflecting on its 20 years of promoting British talent. David Coulthard, who took the award in 1989 when he had just graduated from karting to Formula Ford, says that he ...
Jenson Button heads Sport Personality Award shortlist
Jenson Button has been installed as instant bookies’ favourite for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award after the broadcaster released its final shortlist of 10 names. The Formula One champion will attempt to go one better than Lewis Ha...
British drivers line up for David Brabham’s Celebrity Karting Challenge
A karting fundraiser due to be held in January is shaping up into a who’s who of UK motorsport with drivers including Anthony Davidson, Allan McNish, Paul di Resta, Oliver Turvey and Adam Christodoulou. David Brabham’s Celebrity Karting C...
F1: McLaren say Button will be fully involved in car development
Jenson Button will be fully involved in developing McLaren’s next-generation race car, according to team principal Martin Whitmarsh. And he has confirmed that the team will be sticking to its policy of allowing its drivers a free hand to race e...
Opinion: A Silver Arrow through Brawn’s heart?
It’s barely been two weeks since the F1 season drew to a close with a mostly unexciting race in the opulence of Abu Dhabi that gave little indication of the thrilling eight months that preceded it. Last weekend we fans suffered our first real withd...
F1: Button to join Hamilton at McLaren for 2010 season
It’s official at last – McLaren has confirmed that Jenson Button will be leaving the team with which he won the 2010 drivers championship to drive alongside fellow Brit Lewis Hamilton next year. And the Woking outfit describes its new dr...
Your last chance to grab a SPOTY ticket
Will Jenson Button be in the running for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year? Will the Formula One World Champion fight off the likes of heavyweight boxing champion David Haye, Ashes-winning cricket captain Andrew Strauss or Olympic ...
Sadness for fans as Brawn’s perfect year ends in Mercedes buyout
One perfect year – and then it was all over. The news today of German motoring giant Mercedes shifting its weight from McLaren to Brawn GP means that this season’s double champions will become the ultimate motorsport one-hit wonder. Brawn...
RoC: Ekstrom beats Schumacher to drivers’ title
Double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom has taken his third Race of Champions title – by winning every single race he competed in then beating Michael Schumacher in the event’s final. The Swedish touring car and rallying star took the prize...
RoC: Germany make it three straight wins in Beijing
You wouldn’t have wanted to bet against Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel going into this year’s Race of Champions and, sure enough, the pair have pulled off their third straight win in the Nations Cup in as many years. BritainR...
F1: Vettel secures runner-up spot with Abu Dhabi victory
Sebastian Vettel led home a Red Bull 1-2 as the new Yas Marina circuit served up a contest every bit as dull as the billion-dollar venue was sparkling. Only a late duel between Vettel’s team-mate Mark Webber and new world champion Jenson Button...
F1: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix liveblog
The last race of the Formula One season – and, even with both championships decided, there’s still plenty to keep us interested. Click on the image above to visit PledgeBank and sign the pledge if you're planning to go to the race A spank...
F1: Polesitter Hamilton aims to end season with win
Lewis Hamilton’s strong run of form during the second half of the season continued with the first-ever F1 pole position at the new Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. His fastest lap was a full 0.7 seconds quicker than second-placed Sebastian Vett...
F1: McLaren look to make a splash at Yas Marina
McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets during a twilight second practice session at the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Kovalainen, who who set a time of 1:41.307 in the second session, beat Hamilton after a final ...
F1: ‘I’m still number one,’ Hamilton tells Button
Lewis Hamilton isn’t quite ready to give up being Formula One world champion, despite the widespread reporting that he had ‘handed his crown’ to Jenson Button at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix. Like Hamilton, Button won the tit...
F1: Abu Dhabi the scene of goodbyes as four champions line up to race
The first-ever F1 race at the newly-built Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi is likely to be as notable for its farewells as for its new beginning. A number of drivers are departing for a new future elsewhere in 2010. They include Fernando Alonso, leavi...
F1: Hamilton tells Button: it’s your year, enjoy it.
Lewis Hamilton’s advice to Jenson Button on passing on his world champion’s mantle? “Enjoy your year – you’ve earned it.” He also says that he believes the Brawn GP driver’s victory is thoroughly well-earned ...
F1: Button takes the long way round to a 2010 drive with Brawn
So, we’ve all heard by now how Jenson Button and Brawn GP are busy failing to agree terms for 2010, despite having forged a winning partnership that took both drivers’ and constructors’ championships from a standing start. And the n...
RoC: Coulthard to join Button and Priaulx in Beijing
David Coulthard will be back behind the wheel of a race car in November when he joins Formula One World Champion Jenson Button and three-time World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx in Beijing for the Race of Champions. Also on the programme will be...
F1: Jenson Button’s championship victory in photos
Photos of qualifying, the race and the podium/championship celebrations at Interlagos, courtesy of Bridgestone, McLaren, Red Bull and Brawn GP. ...
F1: Jenson Button and Brawn GP win world championships in Brazil
Mark Webber won the Brazilian Grand Prix – but nobody noticed as Jenson Button raced from 14th on the grid to finish fifth and become the 2009 Formula One drivers’ champion. For the second year running at Interlagos the podium celebration...
Opinion: Brawn GP, Brazil and beyond
By Caron Lindsay Ten months ago, Honda F1 stood on the brink of extinction. Today, its successor, Brawn GP stands on the brink of winning not just the Formula One constructors’ championship, but also the drivers’ title for either Jenson B...
