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Mercedes Grand Prix searches for drivers while dispelling board's concerns

With two manufacturers leaving the series, four new teams joining the grid and a giant game of musical chairs amongst the drivers ensuing, the off-season between the 2009 and 2010 Formula One World Championships is packing in as much action as the racing itself. But few developments have garnered as much attention as the coup orchestrated by Mercedes-Benz Motorsport, withdrawing from McLaren after fifteen years as its active partner in favor of a more conventional engine supplier role, while buying over 75% of the Brawn GP outfit to enter ... Read more →

SPOILER ALERT: Of Champions and Shadows at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix Noah Joseph

Jenson Button and his Brawn GP team cast a dominating shadow over the start of this year's Formula One World Championship, taking the checkered flag at six out of the seven races this season to take ...

VIDEO: TAG Heuer names a winner in McQueen vs. Hamilton Duel Noah Joseph

It's the stuff that dreams are made of. Gearhead dreams, anyway: Who would be the fastest between a racing icon of yesteryear and a champion of today? That's the question which Swiss watchmaker ...

Hamilton, McLaren retroactively disqualified from Australian GP? Noah Joseph

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Last weekend's Australian Grand Prix, the season opener to the 2009 Formula One season, may have ushered in a new era in on-track competition, but ...

Hamilton "honoured" by the Queen Noah Joseph

2008 was a good year for Lewis Hamitlon. In taking the Formula One drivers' title, he became the youngest champion in F1 history, and the first British champion in twelve years. To cap off his ...

Hamilton gets the stamp of approval from Isle of Man Post Office 1 year ago on Autoblog

Few countries have such unimpeachable car-crazed credentials than the Isle of Man. The semi-autonomous British island has no speed limits, boasts a fearsome TT road course, and is home to a handful of motorbike champions, former F1 world champion Nigel Mansell and even Jeremy Clarkson has a house ...

The Turns that Dreams are Made of: Hamilton's fantasy track 1 year ago on Autoblog

Everybody's got their fantasy, but few ever get to live it out. For many of us, it might very well be taking the Formula One world title. That was Lewis Hamilton's dream, and he achieved it this year becoming the youngest F1 champion in history. A huge achievement, but a bubble burst. So Lewis ...

Oh, it's on! Hamilton vs Hoy at Race of Champions 1 year ago on Autoblog

British racing fans had lots of reason to celebrate this year. Not only did their golden boy Lewis Hamilton win the Formula One World Championship, but their star cyclist Chris Hoy took home three Olympic gold medals from the Beijing Olympics. But the ultimate face-off between man and machine is ...

The Fine Print: Hamilton will get his McLaren F1 LM after 3 titles 1 year ago on Autoblog

Now that Lewis Hamilton has secured the Formula One championship, supercar fans around the world are asking when he'll get his hands on that rare McLaren F1 LM. The incredibly valuable supercar – initially reported at $4 million but now apparently worth closer to 8 – was promised to ...

Brazil Nuts: F1 title decided on last corner of last lap of last race 1 year ago on Autoblog

It doesn't get any closer than this. A photo-finish has nothing on the last-minute – make that last-second – end to yesterday's Brazilian Grand Prix, the ultimate decider of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship. Even if you were watching it, chances are you might have missed it. ...

McLaren appeal over Hamilton penalty thrown out of FIA court 1 year ago on Autoblog

Lewis Hamilton does not have good luck in France. Of all the races he's won in these past two seasons, he's yet to take the checkered flag at the French Grand Prix, has had his license revoked by the French gendarmes, and has now had his appeal thrown out of court in Paris. Following the Belgian ...

Storms sweep through the 2008 British Grand Prix 1 year ago on Autoblog

SPOILER ALERT Click for a hi-res gallery from the 2008 British GP Storms swept through Silverstone this year for the British Grand Prix. First came the announcement of David Coulthard's retirement from Formula 1, which was followed by the announcement that, starting in 2010, the race would leave ...

Hamilton Senior takes a Carrera GT for a spin 1 year ago on Autoblog

"Dad, I've totalled the (insert name of first car here)." Chances are that even if you haven't had to use that phrase, you know someone who has. But in an unusual twist, Anthony Hamilton may be making the sheepish call to his son this morning. Lewis Hamilton's dad has put someone's Carrera GT ...

Good to be King: Lewis Hamilton borrows TechArt Porsche for LA trip 1 year ago on Autoblog

Lewis Hamilton caught a plane headed west after dominating in Monaco, and when you're a rising F1 star in Los Angeles, you're certainly not going to hit up Avis to rent a Ford Focus – you want your vents to be functional. So Claus Ettensberger, owner of the So. Cal. tuning shop CEC, was kind ...

New Favorite: Hamilton U.S. 66 Power Reserve 1 year ago on Autoblog

There are a lot of automotive wristwatches out there. In fact, we had a really tough time picking only our ten favorites back in December '06. But once in a while, a new one comes along that makes us stop and take notice. This is one such timepiece. The Hamilton U.S. 66 Power Reserve has a striking ...

Lewis Hamilton resigns with McLaren for $138 million 1 year ago on Autoblog

Reports are coming in that Lewis Hamilton, the phenom F1 driver that nearly won the drivers' championship last season, has resigned with team McLaren for a reported $138 million USD over the next five years. The deal keeps the now 23-year-old at McLaren through 2012, though he's said he would stay ...

Who'll replace Alonso at McLaren? 2 years ago on Autoblog

With the 2007 season of Formula One racing now neatly tied up, the last few remaining seats for next year are filling up fast. Following Mercedes' release of Fernando Alonso from his contract with McLaren and his earlier reported letter of intent with Renault where he won his two world titles, ...

Hamilton Wiki-attack: the British press fire back 2 years ago on Autoblog

Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. Remember the story we brought you a couple days ago about the Mercedes employee in Spain who trashed Lewis Hamilton on Wikipedia? Yeah, pretty ridiculous, we know. But the British media, if you can believe it, is actually taking it seriously. The Daily ...

Spanish Mercedes employee Wiki-trashes Hamilton 2 years ago on Autoblog

Mercedes-Benz, which supplies the engines to the McLaren team where British rookie Lewis Hamilton and Spanish champion Fernando Alonso have been battling it out on and off the track all season, is hunting down one of its employees in Spain. The as-yet unidentified employee, evidently an Alonso fan, ...

Alonso penalized for blocking teammate 2 years ago on Autoblog

Current F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso has been stripped of his pole position at today's Hungarian Grand Prix after blatently holding up the FIA's favorite rookie, and reported second coming of Christ, Lewis Hamilton in the pits during qualifying yesterday, in a move reminiscent of Michael ...

VIDEO: Boys will be Boys...especially in a McLaren 2 years ago on Autoblog

As far as rivalries go in Formula One, the competition between two drivers in the same team is far more intense than that between rival squads. Few have articulated that point quite as vividly as Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, the two star drivers at McLaren-Mercedes. One's a returning ...

Sean John F1: Puffy wants a part of the action 2 years ago on Autoblog

An F1 team owned by a rapper? You've got to be kidding, right? Well, he might be, but Sean "Puffy" Combs is reportedly considering buying a team. If car manufacturers, retired drivers, clothing labels and even beverage companies can own F1 teams, why can't a recording artist? In the fast-changing ...

Racing to the Top: Hamilton gets the McLaren seat 3 years ago on Autoblog

McLaren has finally revealed their second driver for the upcoming 2007 Formula One season: Lewis Hamilton will be racing alongside world champion Fernando Alonso, who leaves Renault to join McLaren this season. Hamilton has been a personal protégé of McLaren chief Ron Dennis since the ...

Teen driver loses life in jet dragster accident 3 years ago on Autoblog

In a tragic accident on Sunday, 17-year-old Canadian drag-racing protégé Kendall Hebert died when her jet-powered dragster crashed into a wall at Toronto Motorsport Park in the suburb of Cayuga, outside Hamilton, Ontario. The accident occurred during a demonstration, not a race. The ...






Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.

Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too! 

 
 

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