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Here’s the points chart for the recently concluded Formula One season, total points plotted against Grands Prix. If you’ll ignore the uncanny performance of a certain blond German kid, it was a pretty close fight…for second place. More »
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Zombie season’s over! As always at Interlagos, it was an entertaining Grand Prix, with some rather surprising results. Behind the Red Bulls, that is. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Lewis Hamilton contested the season’s last Formula One race on Sunday in this yellow-and-green helmet, which is even more Senna-esque than his regular yellow helmet. Hamilton, who is something of a Senna incarnation on his good days, is looking to end his stormy season on a roll: hot off his victory in Abu Dhabi, he topped the timesheets in Practice Two. More »
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The third non-championship race of the season, on a track where it’s impossible to overtake and where nobody has won a race except the current world champion? It was meant to be a yawnfest—but it was pretty exciting for the first two corners. Warning: spoilers. More »
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It’s only race two into Formula One’s first significant post-season since 2004 and the tedium is already mounting. Even if the new track in India is pretty damn good. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Racing drivers don’t die anymore, right? Wrong. They do. Hours after a wonderful second Grand Prix in the southwestern archipelago of South Korea, Dan Wheldon died in an IndyCar. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Welcome to the Suzuka edition of our financial advice column. Today is a wonderful day for all of those who’ve taken our recent tips. But before you blow all that newly minted money, here’s some Formula One. Warning: spoilers. More »
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It’s time to say goodbye to the European season of Formula One at Monza, the track where racing looks like racing footage on stimulants. It was everyone’s last chance to stop the Red Bulls. But tell that to Sebastian Vettel, not about to be stopped. Warning: spoilers. More »
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There really is nothing like the glory of changing weather conditions for sprinkling fairy dust on a Grand Prix. A shot of rain on a cool day was enough to turn the tedium of the Hungaroring into a sparkling race to remember. It also didn’t hurt to have the sultan of capricious weather on the grid, hungry for a win. Warning: spoilers. More »
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The homecoming for Germany’s new world champion, joined by five other Germans in the splendid freezing German summer at the Nürburgring, against a depressed and disillusioned McLaren. What could possibly have gone wrong for Red Bull at the season’s halfway point? Then again, motor racing has a way of being about as capricious as the weather in the Eifel Mountains. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Under rule changes as capricious as the British weather, Formula One returned to its first-ever venue. Silverstone may be new in layout, but it is also very old, and you still need only three words to describe it: fast, fast, fast. Warning: spoilers. More »
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When the 1988 Formula One season began in Rio de Janeiro, nobody knew that the record book on dominance was about to be rewritten. But that’s just what happened. When the bottom half of this car, the McLaren MP4/4, was attached to the carbon fiber shell photographed at dusk before the race, all mayhem was let loose. The 900–1,200 676 hp Honda V6 in that bottom half didn’t hurt either. More »
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Just in case you thought our exclusive photo of Lewis Hamilton with a hoon bumper sticker was somehow the work of pranksters, here's video of Hamilton properly hooning Sir Stewart's Impala. See, told ya so. More »
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A Jalopnik reader spotted a most ironic bumper sticker slapped to the back of F1 star Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes wagon at this month's 2011 Canadian Grand Prix. Damn straight "hooning is not a crime," except for when it is and you get arrested for it or have your license revoked. More »
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The hotly anticipated star swap/car swap between NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and F1 star Lewis Hamilton just finished at Watkins Glen and we have the first video of the event. The big surprise? Hamilton proved the car can turn right. More »
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After six dry races, Formula One was more than ready for a wet Grand Prix in Montréal. What we got was no ordinary wet race. It was the mother of all wet races, a deep sea battle to see if Sebastian Vettel is man or, indeed, machine. Warning: spoilers. More »
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A third of the way into the season, and here’s Monaco. It takes brains to win at Monaco. It also takes luck. And more luck. This year’s race was a showcase of what’s awesome about this antediluvian Grand Prix, and also of what makes Monaco so terribly irritating, for 2011 was a teeth-gnashing coitus interruptus of a mind-blowing Grand Prix. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Formula One races at the Circuit de Catalunya have a tendency for tedium. Not this year. The track’s particular layout managed to balance the 2011 season’s runaway emphasis on offense and produced a classic thriller of a GP. Warning: spoilers. More »
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Force India's Adrian Sutil and Renault majority shareholder Eric Lux were apparently involved in fisticuffs following the Chinese Grand Prix at a night club called M1NT. Sutil left with scars, Lux walked out of a VIP room bleeding, and Lewis Hamilton had to be removed by bodyguards. More »
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After a three-week spring break, Formula One returned to within 25 miles of its European heartland to see if there’s anyone stopping Red Bull this year. At Istanbul Park’s swan song Grand Prix, many tried. Warning: spoilers. More »
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A complex, clever, nail-biting race on a dry Shanghai International Circuit brought the F1 season’s first part to a close with terrific racing and laps upon laps of drama. But was it just a bit too dramatic? Warning: spoilers. More »
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It always rains in Malaysia. It didn’t rain in Malaysia yesterday. Never underequipped when it comes to show biz, Formula One bridged the precipitation gap with a flying Russian (above), a jinxed Brit, and an old rivalry rekindled. A fun race—for second place. Warning: spoilers. More »
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After a winter off-season extended by the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Formula One finally returned on a windy autumn afternoon in Melbourne. Four months without a Grand Prix, it would have been a fun race even if it weren’t fun. But it was fun. Warning: spoilers. More »
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The latest racer to get his own Pixar tribute in "Cars 2": Lewis Hamilton, whose character gets a McLaren MP4-12C-like body and British Racing Green. There better be some racing against Jeff Gorvette. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5786349&view=rss&microfeed=true Nascar driver Tony Stewart and Formula 1 racer Lewis Hamilton will swap cars for a day at Watkins Glen later this year. Afterwards, Hamilton will start a fistfight, while Stewart will have to kiss a wax model of Bernie Eccelstone. More »
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Photography and in-car footage may be dramatic, but nothing shows the gripping intensity of this year’s epic F1 season like a chart showing points haul plotted against time. Especially when compared to previous years. More »
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With the first Formula 1 race at the Korean International Circuit in two weeks, Red Bull Racing produced this CGI track walk-through featuring avatars of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who finished 1-2 in Suzuka on Sunday. Take notes, Lewis. More »
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Here's Formula One champ Lewis Hamilton enjoying the crunch of his front suspension into a wall at the Suzuka circuit during practice. The dustup was severe enough to require McLaren to fly parts from England to Japan. [Telegraph] More »
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Remember Hamilton’s hoontastic shenanigans during the Australian Grand Prix weekend in March? The verdict from Oz is in: Hamilton was fined $440. More »
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Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton were recently filmed walking through the McLaren Formula 1 team's warehouse of old cars. This video is rumored to be unscripted. Get ready to geek out on some serious Senna. More »
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Melbourne authorities are charging F1 star Lewis Hamilton with "intentionally losing control of a vehicle," the coolest sounding crime ever, because of an epic burnout he did in front of fans before the Australian Grand Prix. More »
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Australian police fined F1 champ Lewis Hamilton and impounded his Mercedes under anti-hoon laws after he ripped a burnout on city streets just two days before the Australian Grand Prix. More »
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Like a couple kids in a very expensive, very fast candy store, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button hit the track in pre-production McLaren MP4-12C's to have some fun ahead of today's unveiling. Must be a hard life. More »
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Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton officially unveiled the new McLaren MP4-12C earlier today at the ribbon-cutting of McLaren's new production center. More »
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With a rash of new teams, an unretired Michael Schumacher, and a very balanced field, the 61st season of Formula One has kicked off in the sands of Arabia. Spoilers below. More »
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The MP4-25 is McLaren's new car for Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. With the help of our advanced spy microphone, we present some on-stage chitchat between the drivers as they discuss their new ride. More »
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Vapid celebrity news, dear readers: McLaren’s 2008 Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has broken up with his girlfriend, Pussycat Dolls singer Scherzinger. More »
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Ever since his retirement, Formula One’s most successful driver has been itching to return. Back for 2010, driving Ross Brawn’s world champion Mercedes, only one question remains: can a 41-year-old man kick ass in modern F1? More »
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Making the dissolution of Brawn GP complete, Formula One world champion Jenson Button has stepped into the fun of being Lewis Hamilton’s teammate at McLaren for 2010. More »
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Formula One returns to Arabia this weekend to perform an encore act to the 2009 season on a brand new circuit. World champion Jenson Button and company are set to pop Yas Marina Circuit’s cherry this Sunday. More »
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