The 2009 Formula One World Champion, Jenson Button is hard at work preparing for the 2010 Formula One season. He knows that there will only be one thing harder than winning his first Formula One title and that will be to repeat in 2010. He’s not the only hungry driver on the track and his hunger might have lessened with his first championship. After all a let down is only human, so it will be interesting to see how much fire he has for the fight ahead of him in 2010.
Lewis Hamilton knows how hard it’s to repeat and you …read more

The 2009 Formula One season is over and the final standings are in and once again things aren’t the way predicted by the experts. Englishman Jenson Button jumped out to an early start and put the other drivers in his rear view mirror early in the campaign, by winning six of the first seven 2009 Formula one races and the race for the 2009 FIA Formula One title was almost over before it was half over. Lewis Hamilton was racing from behind from the opening race in Australia in his bid to repeat as FIA Formula One World Champion in …read more

Dreams are meant to be lived and Jenson Button has finally achieved the ultimate in Formula One as his fifth place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix guarantees he’ll be the 2009 Formula One Grand Prix World Champion. They still have a little work to do in Abu Dhabi but Button is fifteen points ahead of his closest competitor Sebastian Vettel and seventeen points in front of his team mate Rubens Barrichello as they head to the last race of the year.
The overall race was won by Red Bull’s Mark Webber, just ahead of BMW Sauber’s Robert Kubica, last year’s …read more

Pressure has a varying effect on different individuals that often isn’t determined until the person in question has been through the fire and come out the other side without any major burns. The pressure was certainly on for Sebastian Vettel on Sunday, anything less than a victory in the Japanese Grand Prix would have meant he was at least 26 points down with only a maximum of 20 points available to be grabbed, and his chances for the 2009 Formula One drivers championship would have evaporated like a gas.
Vettel seemed to know this as he came out onto the track …read more

The first practice for the 2009 Japanese Formula One Grand Prix being held at Suzuka on Friday was a up and down affair for the Japanese fans who came out to see their hero Kazuki Nakajima. Nakajima had the best time on a wet track in the first practice, until first Heikki Kovalainen went around Suzuka faster in one of the last runs of the day. Certainly Nakajima’s his fans thought he had it wrapped up with a time of 1m 40.648s, until they looked up at the clock at Kovalainen’s 1m 40.356s.
Kovalainen actually had the best time before his …read more

The 2009 Formula One season heads to Suzuka and the Japanese Grand Prix in the next round of the fastest sport on four wheels. Suzuka is a track that puts a premium on down-force and this should give Vettel and Mark Webber a chance to try and grab points to help Red Bull close the gap between them and Brawn in the race for the 2009 constructor’s title.  Webber has no chance to win the 2009 Formula One Drivers Championship, but he can still help his team mate Vettel in his bid to win the drivers championship and I expect …read more

Rubens Barrichello, Jenson Button battled for Brawn GP on Sunday afternoon against current Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton driving for McLaren in a dramatic affair that saw it come down to the last pit stop deciding it all. Hamilton grabbed the lead as expected due to using KERS in a lightly fuelled McLaren and was able to pull ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Force India’s Adrian Sutil in the early part of the race. Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button were sitting in fourth and fifth place at this time in the race, just in front of the fuel …read more

Reubens Barrichello stated at the start of the 2009 Formula One season that he would win a race for Brawn GP during the 2009 Formula One season. Sunday on the pavement of Valencia he fulfilled his promise to his team by making it across the finish line just two seconds ahead of Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton.
Lewis Hamilton started the race in the lead due to his KERS, along with team mate Keikki Kovalainen, which put Rubens Barrichello in third after the first few minutes of the race. Just behind them, Kimi Raikkonen was sitting in fourth, also due …read more

Formula One and its knights in their space-age steeds will be competing in the European Grand Prix in a few days and preparations by the drivers and race teams has been progressing. The race track at Valencia has been a busy place the last few days as teams and drivers put their cars through qualifying rounds to determine pole positions for the race.

The morning session saw Force India’s Adrian Sutil set the fastest time in the final run of the morning practice session. This was after a delay in the qualifying due to Sebastian Vettel’s car spilled oil all over …read more

The European Grand Prix is just around the corner and after the show that Valencia put on last year with its inaugural European Grand Prix the drivers, fans and team members can’t wait to get to this Spanish city’s streets. Spain is a hot and dry environment that has its own problems for the cars, drivers and teams, but it’s still a wonderful environment in which to run a Formula One competition.
Lewis Hamilton will be looking to keep his speed up on this demanding circuit that will punish you hard if you make a mistake. The circuit isn’t the fastest …read more