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[CookinFlat6]

True its about doing one stop less than everyone else whilst been just as quick on the tyres, and holding the record for the fastest pitstops

[racechick]

Gillette are a new sponsor for McLaren. Now how are they going to deal with that untidy hairy face Jenson sports . Maybe their adverts will be the tidying up of Jensons face
http://gp-url.com/10Pm8wY

[andrew]

There's nothing wrong with being a bit scruffy. I don't trust anyone who is too manicured - what they trying to hide?

[racechick]

I don't like all that hairy fluffy stuff sprouting everywhere ( a bit of stubble is different). Gilette should sort him out.

[Hammer278]

I don't like all that hairy fluffy stuff sprouting everywhere ( a bit of stubble is different). Gilette should sort him out.

They did. Look at the latest pictures in news items of drivers at Shanghai, Button doesn't look like a homeless b**tard anymore.

[racechick]

Must have been a condition of the sponsorship....well it would have to be wouldn't it

[andrew]

I can't believe you're now bashing Button over his style of facial hair!

[Hammer278]

I can't believe you're now bashing Button over his style of facial hair!

Senna

What about him?

More from the close association with Lewis, some of it has to rub off.

You call that a beard? A guy at work came in sporting similar facial fluff and we laughed.

[racechick]

I can't believe you're now bashing Button over his style of facial hair!

I'm not bashing him, I'm all for individuality, it's just not to my taste....and a bit funny now Gilette are a sponsor.

[andrew]

Gillette tried to pay ZZ-Top $1 million in the 80's to shave their beards. They refused saying they'd be too ugly without them.

[racechick]

perhaps that's why thy chose McLaren then. Before and after shots

[LewEngBridewell]

McLaren believes the updates it has brought to the Chinese Grand Prix have delivered the step forward it was hoping for.

The team is working flat out to recover from a troubled start to its 2013 Formula 1 campaign, but believes it is getting to the bottom of what has gone wrong with the MP4-28.

Having tried out a raft of developments at Shanghai, including new exhausts and sidepod configurations, sporting director Sam Michael said on Friday that McLaren's progress was encouraging.

"The signs are positive but we still have a lot of data to go through," he said. "From the driver comments and lap times it looked good, but we are controlled by data - and it always takes a bit of number crunching to work out what is what."

Michael hopes a major step planned for the Spanish GP can deliver the leap forward McLaren hopes for.

When asked by AUTOSPORT how far advanced the team's recovery was, Michael said: "Pretty far, but like everything it takes time.

"I think it will take the next two races, and by Barcelona we will have the next stage of that.

Jenson Button, McLaren, Shanghai 2013"There are lots of intermediate steps, some of them planned and some of them as a reaction to last couple of races."

Michael echoed remarks from Jenson Button that the team was still sure it could turn its 2013 challenger into title-winning machinery.

"We didn't go to Melbourne planning to come ninth, even with all those changes, but we are looking at it positively with this car," he said.

"The fact it is responding quite well to where we think we need to improve, hopefully we can show it is the right choice. Only time will tell."

Fingers crossed they arrive back in Europe (Barcelona) with a faster machine.

[IheartKimmi]

I also cannont believe that the "Lewis Lovers" take time out of their day to bash Button. Is this not supposed to be a Forum for discussion and news? Talking about Jensons facial hair does not belong here. We all know that your golden boy has left, now just go and love him in the appropriate thread.

I am a huge lurker here but when I see s*** like this I have to say something! We are supposed to be lovers of the sport, of the racing, of the cars, the strategy. F1 is the pinnacle of motor sport and true fans see that. I also see that the drivers have to do corporate events and they dont like it but that is what getting a multi-million pound deal is.

Lewis now has to have a Blackberry, do you see any other fans mocking him because he is advertising something crap? No, most of us love F1 not just a driver and this constant knocking of MacLaren from Racechick, Hammer, Cooking and the other one is really getting on my nerves.

FFS, if you like F1 then you like it, stop with the childish comments, stop with the denegrating a particular driver because you dont like his beard. Stop trying to tell everyone else what to think.

Enjoy the racing, I know most of us do and we enjoy discussing things after but all the crap from Lewis fans towards MacLaren has got to stop. I like MacLaren, I like Button, Kimmi is my favourite though.

For the Lewis fans, you might get what you want but there is a thread for that, and it is not here

[racechick]

Jenson looked ok in the practises, but Perez not so good.

[IheartKimmi]

Jenson looked ok in the practises, but Perez not so good.

Not sure if the word practises exists, but thanks for the attempt to placate me, much appreciated