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F1: Grand Prix News Briefs (Update 5)
Lewis Hamilton is looking for a pay raise...
Lewis Hamilton has been consistently fast this season for McLaren. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Dennis Hints Money At Heart Of New Hamilton Deal: Ron Dennis has hinted the hold-up regarding a new contract for Lewis Hamilton is a disagreement about money. The Montreal winner and new championship leader's existing long-term deal runs out this year, but so far the two sides have been coy about the likelihood of a new contract for 2013 and beyond. McLaren, however, has hinted it definitely wants to keep the 2008 world champion, while 27-year-old Hamilton has hinted he wants to stay, triggering speculation the dispute is over the details of the new contract. Dennis, McLaren's executive chairman who was in Montreal on Sunday, suggested to Sky Sports that money is indeed a factor. "He's on the end of a contract which was signed at a time when the economy was somewhat different and now there has to be a balance," he said. Asked if that means a pay-cut for Hamilton, Dennis answered: "He's very highly paid. He's certainly paid more than I am!" Hamilton has been linked with moves to Red Bull and Mercedes, and Dennis confirmed that McLaren also needs to look at its options on the driver market.
Analysis - 2012 'Lottery' Set To End Now?: Seven so far, so why not eight? The world of Formula One on Monday was contemplating the likelihood that a once-predictable sport has now become a race-by-race quest for all new and different winners. So far in 2012, there have been an unprecedented seven different winners from the opening seven races, including all-new victors like Nico Rosberg, and the return of once-great names including Mercedes and Williams. "Let's see for how long it goes on," former Force India driver Adrian Sutil said on German television Sky. "I would guess there are one or two more (different winners to come). Kimi Raikkonen is on the list and also I think the Sauber is a very fast car." He failed to mention Monaco pole sitter and seven time world champion Michael Schumacher, the improving Felipe Massa, Montreal podium-getter Romain Grosjean -- the list could genuinely go on. Another view is that, although Pirelli's 2012 tire has been difficult to unlock, the clever engineers are getting there now. "We're starting to get a better hand on these tires," confirmed Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.
Brawn No Longer Strategy 'Super Brain': In his Ferrari era, Ross Brawn was hailed as F1's 'super brain'; the strategic mastermind behind Michael Schumacher's most memorable wins. The duo are together again at Mercedes, but Briton Brawn admitted that in these days as team principal, he is no longer steering the actual race strategies during Grands Prix. That role, he said, is occupied by James Vowles, a 32-year-old Briton. "We have a very good guy for the strategies," Brawn told Finnish broadcaster MTV3, "but he presents his ideas to me to hear what I think of them. "Sometimes with my experience I am able to give a different view of things, but James is very good and I need to intervene very rarely," Brawn revealed.
Villadelprat Slams Red Bull Cheating 'Witch Hunt': Joan Villadelprat has slammed the anti-Red Bull "witch hunt" that is casting the reigning world champions as F1 cheats. Recently, the energy drink owned team has been told not only to modify small holes in the floor ahead of the RB8's rear wheels, but also holes in the wheel hub that reportedly also gave an illegal aerodynamic benefit. Villadelprat, a former veteran F1 engineer and manager, wrote in El Pais newspaper that top team rivals McLaren and Ferrari are having to "do anything" to get back on terms with the sport's recently dominant team. He said the saga surrounding the apparently minor floor and hub holes was "nonsense". "The regulation specifies that there can be no hole (in the floor) ... but it is no longer considered a hole if you put a slot to the outside. Then it becomes a legal system. "And that solution is used by almost all of the teams. "Even worse is that no one even made a formal protest. If someone is doing something illegal then you should protest it, as has happened before, not throw dirt on a rival through the media and the gossip of the paddock," he charged.
Button 'Very Lost' As Title Hopes Lose Grip In 2012: Former championship favorite Jenson Button is being swallowed up by F1's fascinating 2012 season. The first winner this year, Briton Button's form has been sliding recently and it hit rock bottom in Canada, where he finished sixteenth whilst Lewis Hamilton won in the sister McLaren. He admitted afterwards that he leaves Montreal "confused and very lost". He has qualified tenth or lower throughout May and June, and has only half of championship leader Hamilton's points tally, and is just eighth in the title standings. "There was nothing there," Button told reporters after Sunday's race. "It has been the same at the last couple of races. I don't know why that is." Button, the 2011 championship runner-up, also admitted he is at a loss to explain how his celebrated skill of looking after his tires is proving no benefit this season. Compounding the mystery is that Hamilton, actually the more aggressive driver, is making the heavily-degrading Pirellis work for him. "I haven't got a clue at the moment," Button said when asked what he and his engineers will do to rectify the situation between now and Valencia in two weeks.
Analysis - 2012 'Lottery' Set To End Now?: Seven so far, so why not eight? The world of Formula One on Monday was contemplating the likelihood that a once-predictable sport has now become a race-by-race quest for all new and different winners. So far in 2012, there have been an unprecedented seven different winners from the opening seven races, including all-new victors like Nico Rosberg, and the return of once-great names including Mercedes and Williams. "Let's see for how long it goes on," former Force India driver Adrian Sutil said on German television Sky. "I would guess there are one or two more (different winners to come). Kimi Raikkonen is on the list and also I think the Sauber is a very fast car." He failed to mention Monaco pole sitter and seven time world champion Michael Schumacher, the improving Felipe Massa, Montreal podium-getter Romain Grosjean -- the list could genuinely go on. Another view is that, although Pirelli's 2012 tire has been difficult to unlock, the clever engineers are getting there now. "We're starting to get a better hand on these tires," confirmed Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.
Brawn No Longer Strategy 'Super Brain': In his Ferrari era, Ross Brawn was hailed as F1's 'super brain'; the strategic mastermind behind Michael Schumacher's most memorable wins. The duo are together again at Mercedes, but Briton Brawn admitted that in these days as team principal, he is no longer steering the actual race strategies during Grands Prix. That role, he said, is occupied by James Vowles, a 32-year-old Briton. "We have a very good guy for the strategies," Brawn told Finnish broadcaster MTV3, "but he presents his ideas to me to hear what I think of them. "Sometimes with my experience I am able to give a different view of things, but James is very good and I need to intervene very rarely," Brawn revealed.
Villadelprat Slams Red Bull Cheating 'Witch Hunt': Joan Villadelprat has slammed the anti-Red Bull "witch hunt" that is casting the reigning world champions as F1 cheats. Recently, the energy drink owned team has been told not only to modify small holes in the floor ahead of the RB8's rear wheels, but also holes in the wheel hub that reportedly also gave an illegal aerodynamic benefit. Villadelprat, a former veteran F1 engineer and manager, wrote in El Pais newspaper that top team rivals McLaren and Ferrari are having to "do anything" to get back on terms with the sport's recently dominant team. He said the saga surrounding the apparently minor floor and hub holes was "nonsense". "The regulation specifies that there can be no hole (in the floor) ... but it is no longer considered a hole if you put a slot to the outside. Then it becomes a legal system. "And that solution is used by almost all of the teams. "Even worse is that no one even made a formal protest. If someone is doing something illegal then you should protest it, as has happened before, not throw dirt on a rival through the media and the gossip of the paddock," he charged.
Button 'Very Lost' As Title Hopes Lose Grip In 2012: Former championship favorite Jenson Button is being swallowed up by F1's fascinating 2012 season. The first winner this year, Briton Button's form has been sliding recently and it hit rock bottom in Canada, where he finished sixteenth whilst Lewis Hamilton won in the sister McLaren. He admitted afterwards that he leaves Montreal "confused and very lost". He has qualified tenth or lower throughout May and June, and has only half of championship leader Hamilton's points tally, and is just eighth in the title standings. "There was nothing there," Button told reporters after Sunday's race. "It has been the same at the last couple of races. I don't know why that is." Button, the 2011 championship runner-up, also admitted he is at a loss to explain how his celebrated skill of looking after his tires is proving no benefit this season. Compounding the mystery is that Hamilton, actually the more aggressive driver, is making the heavily-degrading Pirellis work for him. "I haven't got a clue at the moment," Button said when asked what he and his engineers will do to rectify the situation between now and Valencia in two weeks.
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