Hamilton out to attack in Valencia

Lewis Hamilton has vowed to retain his attacking style in a bid to bring his bad luck to an end at next weekend's European Grand Prix.

Hamilton has conceded his frustration following the last two races in Monaco and Montreal after becoming embroiled in a number of incidents.

The most high profile of those saw Hamilton collide with McLaren team-mate Jenson Button in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix, forcing him into the wall and subsequent retirement with a puncture.

Considerable criticism has followed for Hamilton, although he has also received support, including from Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Addressing the next situation, Hamilton said: "Those two races were particularly frustrating for me because we showed we had the pace to win both of them, yet I only came away with eight points.

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Hamilton to Red Bull rumours denied

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A spokesman for Lewis Hamilton has denied rumours talks were held over the weekend regarding a potential move to Red Bull.

Hamilton's future has been the source of considerable debate this season, with speculation gathering momentum in light of the year he is currently enduring.

With another year remaining on his current McLaren contract after this one, it has often been suggested Hamilton could move to Red Bull or Ferrari from 2013 onwards.

Fuel has been added to the fire in light of Hamilton meeting with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner in the marque's paddock buildings at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Saturday.

It is understood the two men held a 15-minute conversation, which has sparked supposition that Hamilton is eyeing up a move.

However, speaking to Press Association Sport, a spokesman for XIX Entertainment that represents Hamilton, said: "Neither Lewis nor his management team have had any discussions with regard to Lewis moving to another team.

"He is happy at McLaren, and is positive he can still have a say in this year's world championship."

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Total Laps	:	70
Track	:	4.361km (2.71mi)
Race	:	305.27km (189.7mi)
Fastest Lap	:	R.Barrichello 1:13.622

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The Gilles Villeneuve circuit, named after a Formula One driver with the same name, is an engineering marvel that stands at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Ile Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal. The circuit requires a medium to low downforce car setup achieved by reducing the profile of the wings and the angle of the wing flaps. This is one of the most demanding tracks on the brakes with most of the cars using enlarged brake ducts to optimize the cooling of the discs and callipers. The distinctive element of this circuit is its high   kerbs. It has a reputation of forcing the best of drivers to make mistakes with three world champions Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve biting the dust after crashing into the 'Quebec Wall', thus nicknamed as "The Wall of Champions". The Casino de Montr?al, the largest casino in Canada, is situated at the centre of the circuit. The track is surrounded by narrow streets, vintage buildings and exclusive places to eat with one of the most recommended restaurants Le Queue du Cheval located at Rue Ste Catherine which also happens to be a good place for shopping and for its lively nightlife.

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Massa: Hamilton needs tougher penalty

Felipe Massa's race ended in the tunnel after contact with Lewis Hamilton at Loews

Felipe Massa thinks the FIA should take further action to penalise Lewis Hamilton's aggressive driving, after the pair came together at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Hamilton made contact with Massa as he tried to pass on the inside of the Loews Hairpin, causing the Ferrari to damage its front wing against the rear of Mark Webber's Red Bull. Massa then found himself on the outside of Hamilton through the tunnel and, struggling for grip, finished his race against the barriers.

"He tried to pass me on the kerbs [where] I didn't think it was possible to overtake," Massa was quoted by Autosport . "He was too aggressive, I think. Then when I got to the tunnel my car was damaged and I went on the dirty part of the track and hit the wall. What he did today was unbelievable. Not just with me, but with other drivers as well."

Hamilton was given a drive-through penalty for the Massa incident and later a post-race drive-through penalty for his move on Pastor Maldonado into turn one. But Massa thinks further sanctions are needed to make him change his ways.

"I think he needs to be penalised again, and in a good way - otherwise he doesn't learn," he said. "They [the FIA] need to think about something for him, or he will not learn."

Fernando Alonso signs new Ferrari contract

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Spanish driver Fernando Alonso has signed a new deal with Ferrari that will keep him with the Italian team until the end of the 2016 season.


The announcement comes just over a year into the three-year deal Alonso signed when he initially joined Ferrari.

"I am very happy to have reached this agreement," said the 29-year-old double world champion.

"I immediately felt comfortable within Ferrari and now it feels to me like a second family."

In signing such a lengthy deal, Alonso is convinced he will now remain with Ferrari for the rest of his F1 career.

"The intention is to finish my career with Ferrari and I can't imagine a better place to race," added Alonso. "I feel very privileged and very happy. Maybe in 2017 we can do another contract if I'm still quick and Ferrari are still happy with me.

"It's not a big change for me. I was feeling happy and comfortable. We started talking a week or two ago about the future. When two parties want to continue you find a decision very quickly.

"Stability is always good for an F1 team. Hopefully we can bring some success to Maranello.

"Ferrari have finished no lower than third in the championship virtually every year for a long time. This is one of the things Ferrari can offer to a driver. In the next six years I will try to enjoy my racing and hopefully we can have some success."

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said: "It is a great pleasure to have renewed our agreement with a driver who has always demonstrated a winning mentality, even in the most difficult circumstances.


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"Fernando has all the required qualities, both technically and personally, to play a leading role in the history of Ferrari and I hope he will be enriching it with further wins very soon."

Last week, Di Montezemolo insisted that Ferrari would honour Felipe Massa's contract with the team which expires at the end of next season.

The Brazilian has been under pressure since Alonso's arrival but Massa has shown signs of recovering some of his best form this season out-scoring his team-mate in Malaysia and China.

Alonso, who will compete in his home Grand Prix in Barcelona this weekend, earned his and Ferrari's first podium finish of the season at the Turkish Grand Prix on 8 May, finishing third behind Red Bull duo Vettel and Mark Webber.

The result means he trails the German world champion Sebastian Vettel by 52 points after four races of the 2011 season.

Since winning the world championship with Red Bull, Vettel has spoken of his desire to drive for Ferrari in the future.

But Alonso's contraction extension appears to rule out a role for Vettel, who earlier this year extended his contract with Red Bull until the end of 2014, or McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, whose contract runs out in 2012.

In addition, Alonso, who famously spent a tumultuous season alongside Hamilton at McLaren in 2007, is known to favour only having one world-class driver in a team and would be expected to be reluctant to accomodate Vettel.

When it was pointed out to Hamilton that Alonso's contract closed off a potential future career option for the next five years, Hamilton said: "I don't have a drama being alongside him, but I assume he wouldn't allow it to be the other way around."

Asked how he felt about that, the Englishman responded: "I don't really care. I'll beat him in another car."

The German said: "I never said anywhere that the fact that Fernando - or Felipe, or any other driver - drives for Ferrari [means] it is impossible to go there.

"As far as I know, F1 teams have two cars. Probably that kicks off some headlines. But I am very happy where I am so at this stage I don't care.

"In the end, we are all in the same boat. Ultimately we are looking for a package that makes us happy, whether that is results or the environment inside the team."

Vettel pipped Alonso to last year's title, in what was an eventful debut Ferrari season for the Spaniard.

Alonso had started in stunning fashion with victory in the first race of the season in Bahrain in March 2010, but then had to wait until July to record his next win, in Germany, a triumph that was shrouded in controversy.

Leading the race, team-mate Massa was told in coded team orders that were banned at the time to let Alonso pass him.

The result proved to be the start of an Alonso charge as he reeled off three victories in four races in September and October that put him within touching distance of his third title.

However, a bungled pit-stop strategy proved costly in the last race in Abu Dhabi, meaning Alonso finished seventh and missed out on the title.

Alonso's title successes came in 2005 and 2006, when he was driving for Renault.


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Vettel wins Istanbul with Red Bull 1-2

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Sebastien Vettel led a Red Bull one-two at the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday.

The Red Bull driver encountered few problems en route to his third win in four races this season after starting from pole position for the fourth consecutive grand prix.

Mayhem often unfolded behind the German, but come the conclusion in Istanbul it was Vettel's Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber who finished second to secure the team's 11th career one-two.

For the first time this season Ferrari's Fernando Alonso clambered onto the podium to put his team's inauspicious start behind them.

The leading trio finished within 10 seconds of one another, and a long way clear of McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton, who at least retains his second place in the drivers' standings, albeit 34 points behind Vettel.

"You beauty Seb," was Red Bull team principal Christian Horner's message to Vettel after he took the chequered flag, to which the 23-year-old replied: "Yes, yes, it was beautiful."

On the evidence of yet another action-packed race, gone are the days of the one-stop strategy and processional grands prix as DRS (the moveable rear wing), the KERS power-boost system and degradable tyres from new manufacturers Pirelli now rule.

The result, as we saw to head-spinning effect in China three weeks ago - and to a far lesser degree in Australia and Malaysia prior to that - are multi-stop grands prix resplendent with bucketloads of overtaking manoeuvres.

It is fair to suggest there have been more passes in the first four races of this new era of F1 - certainly the last two especially - than we have in the last four seasons combined.

It has got to the point where you are not quite sure where to look, and that would certainly appear to be the case for the television cameras as they found themselves concentrating on action down the field rather than on one of the leader's pit stops.

The early stages were dominated by a fascinating tussle between the McLaren duo of Hamilton and Jenson Button, sparked by a lap one charge from Hamilton on Webber he failed to pull off.

Forced to run wide at one stage, from fourth place Hamilton dropped to sixth as Alonso and Button gratefully accepted the present.

Then came a battle royal as first Hamilton scythed his way past his fellow Briton before Button responded a lap later.

Turn 12 was proving to be a hotspot for action, with that corner the end of the DRS activation zone and the long straight before it the one place where the drivers could open their rear wing to gain additional speed.

Renault's Vitaly Petrov shot down the inside of Michael Schumacher's Mercedes on lap two at that particular turn. The Russian, however, ran over the German's front wing which forced Schumacher into an earlier than planned stop, compromising his race.

Schumacher was not the only driver Petrov aggravated as he also bumped wheels with his own team-mate Nick Heidfeld out of turn 12 and into 13 later on, prompting a furious hand gesture from the more experienced man.

Further into the drama there was a stunning scrap between Mercedes' Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa in his Ferrari and the McLaren of Button for a fourth place team-mate Hamilton had given up after a second stop.

First Massa scythed his way through at turn 12, only for Rosberg to respond a lap later, and then on the following lap, the Brazilian again netted fourth.

Button also attacked, and somewhat astonishingly made his move on the outside of turn 14 that leads into the home straight.

It was, however, strategy that played the key role, and in this case four stops held sway, although Button attempted three.

The 31-year-old could only manage sixth for his troubles, as he also came home behind Rosberg, an astonishing 59.4 seconds adrift of Vettel.

In the closing stages he had no answer to first Hamilton and then Rosberg on slightly older rubber and has now dropped to fourth in the standings, 47 points down, with Webber up to third, 38 behind his team-mate.

Webber, who enjoyed a fine feud with Alonso at various stages, did enough on lap 50 to force his way through to claim his best result of the season.

Behind Button, the top 10 was completed by the Renault duo of Heidfeld and Petrov, with Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi ninth and Kamui Kobayashi 10th in his Sauber after starting at the back of the grid.

Force India's Paul di Resta was the only driver to retire in the race, as Virgin Racing's Timo Glock did not even start due to a gearbox problem.