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Jenson Button made it six wins out of seven races by claiming the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul. With his teammate Rubens Barrichello failing to score, Button now carries a 26-point lead into his home race at Silverstone in two weeks.

Jenson Button put himself in the perfect position from which to win his fifth race of the season when he took pole position for tomorrow’s Monaco grand prix with a last-minute lap of 1min 14.902 sec during today’s final qualifying session.

On an afternoon complicated by an early multiple car collision, the two Brawn drivers proved their team remains the outstanding force this season in the first European race of the year.

Jenson Button continued Brawn GP’s storybook start to the 2009 season with a dominating victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Jenson Button made it back-to-back victories following a wacky and wet Malaysian Grand Prix that had Jense start from his second pole position in two chances and with a second consecutive Grand Prix to finish under Safety Car conditions.

Continuing a run of good form - Jenson Button is having to get use to doing press conferences again - and he seems to be enjoying it.

British motor racing star Jenson Button emerged from the shadows of world champion Lewis Hamilton Sunday to win the first grand prix of the 2009 season.

Even the cynics were astonished when Jenson Button tripped the timing lights on the Circuit de Catalunya pit straight this past week.

Ross Brawn, who on Friday was unveiled as the white knight who had saved Honda from F1 extinction, is now embarking on a hectic schedule of testing as the team plays catch-up ahead of the season-opening Melbourne Grand Prix on March 29.

The team formerly known as Honda is scheduled to participate in all four days of the final group test in Barcelona from March 9-12.

As the Formula One season fast approaches the never ending saga of F1 Honda has taken more twists and turns than the marriage résumé of Elizabeth Taylor.

Italian Formula One team Toro Rosso confirmed Friday that Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will be their number two driver for the 2009 season alongside Swiss racer Sebastien Buemi.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, has rescued the Honda Formula One team, an Italian newspaper reported on Saturday.

Carl Edwards says he will never forget the moment that he beat seven time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher in the Race of Champions.
Edwards, who finished second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup this season, won his first round tie against British Formula 3 champion Jaime Alguersuari and was drawn against Schumacher in a race [...]

As suggested by many, including Honda officials and F1 powerbrokers Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, there is already interest in the Brackley based F1 Honda team that was put on the block Friday Japanese auto giant Honda.

Well, so much for all the stories of yesterday claiming Honda would make a decision sometime in March whether they would stay or leave Formula One.

The Senna name returns to Formula One this month when Bruno, nephew of the late three-time champion Ayrton, tests for the Honda Racing team.
The GP2 championship runner-up will join Honda for the team’s first test of the winter in Barcelona from 17 to 19 November.
The Brazilian, 25, will test this year’s RA108 as Honda evaluate [...]

“If we’re talking about identical engines, we’re very much opposed to that. The engine is very dear to the heart of Honda and other manufacturers. We’re the biggest manufacturer of internal combustion engines in the world and we want to design, develop and manufacture our own Formula One engine.” - Honda F1 Racing CEO Nick [...]