McLaren's Jenson Button won the Australian Grand Prix for the
third time ahead of world champion Sebastian Vettel in an
incident-packed season opener on Sunday.
Jenson Button's body language after the first day of Formula
One testing on Tuesday spoke happily of a new McLaren that
was everything last year's car was not.
A weekend of blunders at the British Grand Prix has left
McLaren bosses red-faced, with their hopes of catching Red
Bull in the Formula One championship all but gone.
McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton could be
relying on the famously fickle British summer weather to have
a real chance of challenging at their home Grand Prix this
weekend.
Jenson Button took advantage of a last-lap slide by Sebastian
Vettel and passed the runaway points leader on the final trip
down the backstretch to win the rain-soaked Canadian Grand
Prix on Sunday.
World championship leader Sebastian Vettel and former
champion Jenson Button are calling for Formula One to improve
safety measures in the wake of the frightening crash that
hospitalized Sergio Perez.
Reigning Australian Grand Prix champion Jenson Button says he
faces an uphill battle to equal Michael Schumacher's record
of three consecutive victories at Albert Park on Sunday.
Silverstone is the battleground this weekend for a pair of
British Formula One title contenders for the first time in
more than a decade - and a year after it seemed the circuit
might never witness such a duel again.
Lewis Hamilton led McLaren to a 1-2 finish at the Turkish
Grand Prix on Sunday after a costly run-in between teammates
Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel denied Red Bull a shot at
the top two spots.
