Posts Tagged ‘ Lewis Hamilton ’

QUIPS AND QUOTES TSHIRTS (F1 Team GB)

• Posted in F1 Gifts . F1 Merchandise

Original 2010 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Lewis Cap

• Posted in F1 Merchandise . McLaren

The Lewis Cap in the official design as worn by Lewis at the Grands Prix. With large LEWIS and signature embroidery in silver to both sides of the cap and a Rocket Red embroidery of Lewis’ signature to the inside of the peak and the number 2.

Distinctive chrome effect to the edge of the peak. New innovatively shaped rip-strip size adjuster for improved comfort.

Product Features

• The Lewis Cap in the official design as worn by Lewis at the Grands Prix
• With large LEWIS and signature embroidery in silver to both sides of the cap
• A Rocket Red embroidery of Lewis’ signature to the inside of the peak and the number 2
• Distinctive chrome effect to the edge of the peak

Abu Dhabi – Hamilton storms to pole

• Posted in Abu Dhabi GP . F1 2009 . F1 News

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton will start the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in pole position after dominating qualifying at the final race of the season.

Red Bull’s Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel came alive in the dying moments of the final qualifying session of 2009, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton kept his nerve and ultimately decimated their chances of taking pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a lap of 1m 40.948s on Saturday evening.

The hotly anticipated duel between Hamilton and his successor as world champion Jenson Button never materialised as Button struggled with a tyre vibration and had to settle for fifth place behind Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

Singapore 09 Qualifying – Hamilton on pole as Barrichello crash

• Posted in F1 News

Lewis Hamilton will start the Singapore Grand Prix on pole after a poor session for Brawn GP saw Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button finish in 10th and 12th.

Barrichello, trailing Button by 14 points in the title race, was fifth fastest but crashed late on and drops five places after changing his gearbox.

Button failed to make the top 10 as the championship leader produced an error-strewn display to finish 12th fastest.

Sebastian Vettel had just set the fastest time in sector one for Red Bull, while Williams’ Nico Rosberg had done likewise in sector two.

Hamilton was also preparing to go quicker still as were Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Toyota’s Timo Glock, BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica and McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen.

But since Barrichello crashed 26 seconds before the chequered flag was due to fall, they were all out of luck. The grid would be formed on the basis of their first run times.

However, what was set to be a tantalising climax to the session never played out after 37-year-old Barrichello slammed into the wall at turn five after losing control of his BGP 001 under braking after appearing to hit a big bump.

“It’s a disastrous session for us,” admitted team boss Ross Brawn. “We underestimated the competition in second qualifying because we used one old set, then one new set, and didn’t get the car balanced well on the new set.

“We were perilously close to losing both cars in that session. The shoot-out wasn’t bad, looking at the fuel weights, but that topped it off for us.

“With Jenson dropping out of third qualifying, Rubens had the maximum chance to get some points on Jenson. We’ll have to see what we can recover on Sunday.”

Kimi Raikkonen was another with a glum face after 1m 47.177s left his Ferrari only 13th, ahead of Sebastien Buemi’s Toro Rosso on 1m 47.369s and Jarno Trulli’s Toyota on 1m 47.413s.

Renault rookie Romain Grosjean will line up alongside Liuzzi on the back row in 19th after struggling with the brakes on his R29 from the off in qualifying after a new set were installed before the session.

The Frenchman enquired over the radio whether his brakes were working at all after running down the escape road at turn seven on his out-lap and despite completing 10 laps over the next 20 minutes couldn’t get near the cut line. f1 bbc

Monza 2009 – Italian Grand Prix Practice 1

• Posted in F1 News

McLaren showed why it is rated among the favourites to win the Italian Grand Prix by making a strong start in opening practice on Friday, Lewis Hamilton outpacing team-mate Heikki Kovalainen to head up the times.

With KERS-equipped cars expected to feature prominently on the high-speed Monza circuit, McLaren used its class-leading system to dominate the morning session, Hamilton in particular quickly got into the groove to outpace Kovalainen by almost 0.4s and finish just over 0.5s clear of the first non-McLaren with a best time of 1m23.936s.

1 – L Hamilton  McLaren
2 – H Kovalainen     McLaren
3 – A Sutil     Force India
4 – F Alonso     Renault
5 – N Heidfeld     BMW Sauber
6 – S Buemi     Toro Rosso
7 – J Button     Brawn
8 – G Fisichella     Ferrari
9 – M Webber     Red Bull
10 – K Raikkonen     Ferrari
11 – R Kubica     BMW Sauber
12 – R Barrichello     Brawn
13 – N Rosberg     Williams
14 – K Nakajima     Williams
15 – R Grosjean     Renault
16 – V Liuzzi     Force India
17 – J Alguersuari     Toro Rosso
18 – S Vettel     Red Bull
19 – J Trulli     Toyota
20 – T Glock     Toyota