SAO PAULO - Jenson Button lapped fastest in the final practice of the Formula One season in Brazil on Saturday with Red Bull's championship leader Sebastian Vettel close behind.Vettel, who is 13 points clear of sole rival Fernando Alonso, was 0.057 slower than the Briton whose team mate Lewis ...

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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS - Jenson Button claimed his second win this year and 14th of his career on Sunday when he drove to a comprehensive victory in an incident and accident-packed Belgian Grand Prix. Starting from the eighth pole position of his career and his first for the McLaren team, the ...

BARCELONA - Briton Jenson Button topped the times for McLaren after Friday’s second free practice session for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, the 2009 champion clocking a fastest lap time of one minute and 23.3 seconds. Button’s lap was the fastest not only of the second ...

SUZUKA (AFP) - Briton Jenson Button showed hell make German Sebastian Vettel work for his second world championship by topping the timesheets in both practice sessions at the Japanese Grand Prix on Friday. The 31-year-old McLaren driver, after leading morning practice, set his benchmark time of ...

PARIS (AFP) Jenson Button, who began 2009 in danger of becoming a dole queue millionaire, ended it as world champion after a year where Formula One lurched from one drama to another. Colourful Renault chief Flavio Briatore was banned for life for his role in the infamous 'Crashgate affair while ...

BEIJING (AFP) Beijings Birds Nest stadium has been transformed into a motor racing track, with some of the worlds top drivers gearing up to compete in the 2009 Race of Champions here on Wednesday. Newly-crowned Formula One world champion Jenson Button, seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher and ...

Russian media have been poking fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to her Russian counterpart. Hillary Clinton gave Sergei Lavrov a mock "reset" button, symbolising US hopes to mend frayed ties with Moscow. But he said the word the Americans chose, ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - India skipper Anil Kumble said Saturday he was confident his team would bounce back in the three-Test series against Sri Lanka after crashing to a comprehensive defeat in the opening match here. India lost by an innings and 239 runs on the penultimate day - their third-heaviest ...