Hungarian GP: Button wins wet race in style

RichardsF1    F1 2011, Formula 1, Results    

He’s consumed plenty of cake to mark his 200th Grand Prix, survived a serious hacking of his website, and now Jenson Button has fended off the rain showers and attacks of other drivers to win today’s Hungarian Grand Prix, an absorbing race that was all about being on the right tyres at the right time.

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2011 Formula 1 Championship Standings

RichardsF1    Championship Standings, F1 2011, Formula 1    

Current championship standings of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship season after the completion of the Hungarian Grand Prix (Round 11).

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2011 WTCC Championship Standings

RichardsF1    Championship Standings, WTCC    

Current championship standings of the FIA World Touring Car Championship after the completion of the Race of Germany (Round 8).

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WTCC Germany: Engstler takes shock Race 2 win

RichardsF1    Results, WTCC    

Franz Engstler has taken a surprise maiden World Touring Car Championship win in the second race at Oschersleben, marking the first win this season for BMW and an end to the run of eleven successive wins for the dominant Chevrolet squad.

It is also just the first time in the Championship’s history that an Independent Trophy driver has taken outright race victory, with Engstler – who celebrated his 50th birthday this week – delighting home fans with his win.

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WTCC Germany: Muller closes points lead with Race 1 win

RichardsF1    Results, WTCC     Chevrolet, Yvan Muller

Yvan Muller has taken his third race win on the trot after his double-win at Donington Park a fortnight ago, taking out a narrow victory over Chevrolet team-mate Robert Huff in the opening race of this weekend’s round at a wet Oschersleben.

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Perhaps some sacked New of the World journos have been at work?

RichardsF1    F1 2011, Formula 1     Jenson Button, McLaren

Reports on Jenson Button’s website claiming that he had been involved in a serious car accident on his way out of the Hungaroring circuit after qualifying were “a distasteful hoax”, according to McLaren team management.

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Remembering Ayrton: ‘The James Bond Years’

RichardsF1    Former F1 Figures, Formula 1, Senna     Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger

Former Grand Prix driver Gerhard Berger likens his three seasons as Ayrton Senna’s McLaren team-mate as “the James Bond Years”, when money, fame, success and girls were very prominent in their lives.

In our latest ‘Remembering Ayrton’ feature, we take a quick look at their time together…

Hülkenberg to quit F1?

RichardsF1    Driver Market, Formula 1     Force India, Nico Hulkenberg

Perhaps Nico Hülkenberg has been reading Richard’s F1, for just days after we speculated that Force India would retain its existing driver line-up for 2012, the German has said he would rather leave the sport than spend another year as a Friday test driver.

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Sauber dumps sponsor

RichardsF1    F1 2011, Formula 1     Sauber, Sponsors

Just a day after the team offered a terse “No comment” to questions over the state of one of its minor sponsors, Liechtenstein-based Money Service Group, the Swiss team has confirmed it has parted ways with the company.

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Happy 33rd birthday, Justin Wilson!

RichardsF1    Former F1 Figures, IndyCar     Jaguar, Justin Wilson, Minardi

Former F1 driver Justin Wilson is celebrating his 33rd birthday today!

Considered by many as better suited (by dint of his impressive height) to be a basketball player, Sheffield-born Wilson’s rise through the motorsport ranks was fairly straightforward until he took the unusual decision of joining the Formula Palmer Audi series in 1998 when he ran out of money.

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