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McLaren has announced it will reforge ties with Mercedes from the 2021 season at the end of its existing power unit supply deal with Renault.

Zytek Automotive has been revealed as the company behind the KERS system fitted to the McLaren Mercedes F1 cars of Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.

The 2009 British Grand Prix promises to be a memorable occasion, and not only for the fact that it could well witness another famous home victory - for the 22nd time in its 59-year history. It will also mark the final race to take place at Silverstone - for the time being at least.

Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen have take up a new role ahead of the latest F1 event of the season this weekend at Silverstone.

Reigning Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton has waded into the sport's sex debate in suggesting that one day a female driver will 'come along and kick everyone's a*se' in the top flight - as his McLaren-Mercedes team defended its star turn from the criticism he has received so far this year.

McLaren-Mercedes has been pursuing a wild good chase for too long with its underperforming MP4-24, Lewis Hamilton has contended - and whilst he has vowed to keep on pushing for the remainder of the 2009 campaign, the reigning Formula 1 World Champion has suggested that his team would be best-serv

Lewis Hamilton carried the air of a man resigned to his fate as he effectively wrote off his chances of successfully defending his hard-fought Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship crown this year - after a car that 'got slower and slower' consigned the British star to just 16th position on the s

McLaren-Mercedes is pinning its hopes of an improved performance in this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix and the races to come on what it describes as an 'ingenious' rear wing innovation on the MP4-24 - something it predicts will be worth in the region of three or four tenths of a second per lap and

Defending Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton has insisted that he is not a 'superhuman, just a normal guy' after returning to the scene of one of his most famous and impressive grand prix triumphs in Monaco this weekend - and he confessed that 'the paddock feels a little bit empty' without h

1. Nico Rosberg Germany Williams-Toyota 1m 15.243s 2. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1m 15.445s 3. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Brawn-Mercedes 1m 15.590s 4. Jenson Button Britain Brawn-Mercedes 1m 15.774s

The Spanish Grand Prix has in recent years symbolised the beginning of the European leg of the Formula 1 campaign, but in 2009 it is likely to take on an even greater significance still, with most predicting that the weekend will reveal the true pecking order following the opening four flyaway ra

Sir Jackie Stewart has never been one to shrink from controversy - on-track or away from it - and as a vociferous critic of Formula 1, the Scot has spoken openly about the Lewis Hamilton Melbourne 'lies' scandal, the changes in safety in the sport from his era to the present one and his tense rel

A battling performance by Shanghai star Sebastian Vettel earned Red Bull Racing a hard-earned second place in the Bahrain Grand Prix, but his team nonetheless admitted to a touch of 'disappointment' at not having been able to repeat its Chinese glory in the desert kingdom.

Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock put their pre-season testing in Sakhir to good use in qualifying for this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, by storming to Toyota's first-ever front row lock-out in Formula 1 - as the team now eyes its breakthrough victory in the top flight on race day.

Red Bull energy drinks magnate Dietrich Mateschitz has moved to ward off the attentions of Norbert Haug, who confessed that he may be keen to prise Sebastian Vettel away from the Milton Keynes-based squad in order to drive for McLaren-Mercedes one day.

It may have taken them 75 races to get there, but when they finally did so they did it in style, as Sebastian Vettel led team-mate Mark Webber home in a resounding Red Bull Racing one-two triumph in a water-logged Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today.

In the wake of the 'misleading' information scandal engulfing McLaren-Mercedes in Malaysia this weekend, Martin Whitmarsh has refused to rule out resigning from his role of team principal at the Woking-based outfit - a position he has held for barely a month.

Formula 1's governing body the FIA has published the radio communication between reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren-Mercedes team that led to the British star being disqualified from third place in last weekend's 2009 curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Ferrari is currently 'paying the price' for its success in Formula 1 last year, reckons the Scuderia's president Luca di Montezemolo - who conceded that there were 'a few mistakes too many' in an Australian Grand Prix performance last weekend that transpired to be 'a lot worse' than had be

Whilst congratulating Jenson Button and Brawn GP on their staggering Australian Grand prix success in Melbourne last weekend, Martin Whitmarsh has sought to stress that the ex-Honda F1 outfit would likely not have been on the starting grid Down Under at all had it not been for McLaren-Mercedes' h

Timo Glock has slated Formula 1's rule-makers after team-mate Jarno Trulli was demoted from third place in the 2009 curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix today - marking Toyota's third penalty of the Melbourne weekend.

Lewis Hamilton has described this weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne as 'one of my best-ever races' as he stormed through the field from 18th place to third - admitting afterwards that he had 'wrung every last ounce of pace out of the car' and 'absolutely raced my heart out'.

The last time Jenson Button began from pole position - also co-incidentally in Melbourne - he had taken the chequered flag tenth.

The 2009 Formula 1 World Championship campaign will roar into life after a nigh-on five-month winter break this weekend, with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne promising to be one of the most open, unpredictable and exciting races in years.