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Formula One: Honda to return as engine supplier in 2015

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 06:15
Japanese automaker Honda said Thursday it will return to Formula One in 2015 as an engine supplier to British team McLaren in a bid to revive their championship-winning partnership. Honda president Takanobu Ito said "McLaren-Honda" will aim to become "number one" in the elite racing world. "Honda is a company that has grown by participating in and winning races," he told a Tokyo press conference. McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh said at the joint press event their "legendary Formula One partnership" would restart.

Show your elbows, McLaren tell Perez

April 15, 2013 07:45
By Alan Baldwin MANAMA (Reuters) - McLaren new boy Sergio Perez has been told by team boss Martin Whitmarsh to use his elbows and make life harder for Formula One rivals. "I think he's been very polite so far this year, I think he needs to toughen up," Whitmarsh told reporters after the Mexican finished a disappointing 11th in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai. "I think he's been generous in allowing people past him. He was a bit more robust today."

Formula One: Button keeping the faith

April 11, 2013 07:01
Former world champion Jenson Button refused on Thursday to rule out another title bid this year, despite a dreadful start to the season, and said that he was keeping faith with his much-criticised McLaren. The Briton was down in ninth at the season-opening race in Melbourne and retired in the closing stages of Malaysia. His new team-mate Sergio Perez has fared little better. McLaren made wholesale changes to their car for this season, the only team on the grid to do so, but the MP4-28 has been widely panned.

Formula One: Struggling McLaren upbeat ahead of China

April 7, 2013 12:45
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh is confident his team will be far more competitive in next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix than they were in the two season-opening races in Australia and Malaysia. Whitmarsh said the team have identified some initial solutions to their problems in the break since the Malaysian race on March 24. He said: "Clearly, our performance in Australia and Malaysia fell below the high standards we've come to expect at McLaren. "However, the three-week break between rounds two and three has been a useful one for us.

Formula One: Honda to return to F1, say reports

March 17, 2013 23:45
Honda plans to return to Formula One as soon as 2015 as an engine supplier to British team McLaren, bidding to revive one of the sport's most successful partnerships, reports said Monday. The Japanese automaker pulled out of F1 after the 2008 season, ending an involvement that began in the 1960s, in a bid to cut costs during the economic downturn, which ravaged Japanese exports to the United States and Europe. It sold its team to former principal Ross Brawn the next year.

Motor racing-Button shrugs off McLaren technical changes

February 26, 2013 14:00
By Alan Baldwin WOKING, England, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Jenson Button shrugged off the departure of top-rated McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe on Tuesday and said the team's Formula One title challenge would not suffer. Speaking a day after McLaren announced that Lowe had been replaced by Tim Goss and would leave at the end of the year, the 2009 world champion said such upheaval was all part of the sport.

UPDATE 1-Motor racing-Goss replaces Lowe as McLaren technical head

February 25, 2013 15:45
* Goss replaces Lowe as McLaren technical director * Lowe moved to another role until end of year * Former technical head linked to Mercedes move (Adds detail) By Alan Baldwin LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - McLaren promoted Tim Goss to technical director on Monday and said predecessor Paddy Lowe, who has been linked in the media to Formula One rivals Mercedes, would be leaving at the end of the year for a "fresh challenge".

Formula One: McLaren install Goss as technical director

February 25, 2013 13:17
McLaren announced on Monday that Tim Goss has been appointed as the British team's new technical director and will replace Mercedes-bound Paddy Lowe at the end of the year. Mercedes are still to confirm Lowe's arrival, but McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh thanked him for his work with the team. "Paddy has been a good and successful technical director and we wish him well when he embarks on a fresh challenge in 2014," he said.

Motor racing-Goss takes over from Lowe as McLaren technical head

February 25, 2013 11:30
LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - McLaren named Tim Goss as the Formula One team's new technical director on Monday and said his predecessor Paddy Lowe, linked to rivals Mercedes, would be leaving at the end of the year for a "fresh challenge". Goss, who joined McLaren in 1990, was previously the team's director of engineering. The season starts in Australia on March 17. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Mark Meadows)

Cricket-South Africa v New Zealand ODI scoreboard

January 25, 2013 13:30
POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Scoreboard in the third one-day international between South Africa and New Zealand at Senwes Park on Friday.
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