Jenson Button scorched to a second consecutive pole position yesterday, his impressive new Brawn consistently the fastest throughout the sessions, while Lewis Hamilton’s troubled weekend wasn’t eased by his failure to get his McLaren into the top-10 run-off.
For both men it was a first. Button has four previous poles but never scored two on the bounce. Likewise Hamilton has failed to graduate from Q2 before, but never twice in succession…Â Details
Helio Castroneves has a Team Penske IndyCar waiting for him whenever he puts his legal problems behind him.
The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and last year’s IndyCar Series runner-up is on trial in Miami on federal tax evasion charges that carry a potential of more than six years behind bars.
But team owner Roger Penske…Â Details
As in Australia last week, the FIA’s publication of the post-qualifying weights of all 20 Formula 1 cars on the starting grid for the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix in Sepang this weekend has thrown up a number of surprises.
Though he was always expected to be fuelled light given his imposed ten-place grid drop, that Red Bull Racing star Sebastian Vettel weighed in 8.5kg lighter than anyone else in the field suggests the German star will…Â Details