Force India on Monday signed a long-term deal with McLaren Mercedes just days after splitting with engine-supplier Ferrari,

The Silverstone-based Formula One team, owned by Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya, have agreed a reported five-year deal with McLaren for the supply of gearboxes, hydraulic systems and Mercedes-built engines.

Force India on Monday signed a long-term deal with McLaren Mercedes just days after splitting with engine-supplier Ferrari,

The Silverstone-based Formula One team, owned by Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya, have agreed a reported five-year deal with McLaren for the supply of gearboxes, hydraulic systems and Mercedes-built engines.

Team chief Ron Dennis admitted Sunday that McLaren were caught out by Timo Glock`s decision to stay on dry tyres at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix - a move that almost cost Lewis Hamilton his drivers` world title.

FUJI SPEEDWAY, Japan, Oct 12, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren boss Ron Dennis admitted Sunday he was 'mystified' as to why Lewis Hamilton received a drive-through penalty after an incident at the first corner of the Japanese Grand Prix.

SINGAPORE, Sept 29, 2008 (AFP) - The future of Formula One lies in Asia not Europe, according to Sir Frank Williams, who was hugely impressed by the Singapore Grand Prix.

PARIS, Sept 23, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton on Tuesday lost his appeal to have his win at the Belgian Grand Prix reinstated after the FIA ruling body confirmed a 25-second sanction against him for cutting a chicane.

PARIS, Sept 23, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton on Tuesday lost his appeal to have his win at the Belgian Grand Prix reinstated after the FIA ruling body confirmed a 25-second sanction against him for cutting a chicane.

PARIS, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton will have to wait until Tuesday to find out if his win at the Belgian Grand Prix is to be reinstated, according to the FIA on Monday.

The current Formula One championship leader appeared before the Paris tribunal on Monday in a bid to overturn a 25-second penalty which denied him victory at the Spa-Francorchamps course on September 7.

PARIS, Sept 21, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton will bid to extend his world championship lead here on Monday with the action coming amongst the suits of an FIA appeal tribunal rather than on the racing track.

The British driver was controversially penalised 25 seconds after winning the Belgian Grand Prix two weeks ago, a decision which relegated the McLaren star to third place.

LONDON, Sept 17, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton will win the Formula One world drivers' championship if the remaining four races are rain-affected, the Briton's McLaren boss said Wednesday.

Hamilton, 23, has just a one point lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa ahead of the September 28 inaugural night race in Singapore.

MONZA, September 12, 2008 (AFP) - The McLaren-Mercedes team's appeal against a 25-second sanction that cost Briton Lewis Hamilton victory at the Belgian Grand Prix last week will be heard in Paris on September 22.

The ruling body, the International Motoring Federation (FIA) confirmed the date in a statement issued on Friday.

LONDON, September 9, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team confirmed on Tuesday they were appealing against the controversial decision of to strip the British Formula One driver of his victory in last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix. Hamilton won Sunday's race after a thrilling wheel-to-wheel battle with defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari.

LONDON, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren team manager Ron Dennis has insisted Grand Prix great Sir Jackie Stewart is wrong to suggest Heikki Kovalainen should spend the rest of the season helping team-mate Lewis Hamilton become world champion.

HOCKENHEIM, July 20, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton had only his nerves to fight on Sunday morning as he relished his prospects of winning the German Grand Prix from pole position.

SILVERSTONE, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren teammates Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton refused to get carried away after an encouraging day's practice ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix.

SILVERSTONE, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren teammates Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton refused to get carried away after an encouraging day's practice ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix.

MONACO, May 24, 2008 (AFP) - Briton Lewis Hamilton said he and his McLaren Mercedes team were surprised on Saturday by the qualifying pace produced by rivals Ferrari who filled the front row of the grid for Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.

LONDON, May 1, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren boss Ron Dennis on Thursday insisted he had no involvement in the sex-sting that led to lurid allegations about the private life of FIA president Max Mosley.

Dennis has been forced to make his position clear following an apparent assertion on a Prague radio station made by Czech Automobile Association general secretary Radovan Novak.

BARCELONA, Spain, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren team chief Martin Whitmarsh said Sunday that he expected Finnish driver Heikki Kovalainen to be released from hospital in Barcelona following his 240 kph crash during the Spanish Grand Prix.

Whitmarsh said Kovalainen, 26, had no visible injuries and added that he expected him to be back 'fit and well' very soon.

SEPANG, Malaysia, March 24, 2008 (AFP) - Ferrari have come bouncing back to set the stage for a season-long duel with McLaren for Formula One dominance -- but insist they are taking nothing for granted after winning in Malaysia.

LONDON, March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Long-serving McLaren boss Ron Dennis is set to step down from his position as chief of the British-based Formula One team, according to reports in the British press

LONDON, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren furiously denied on Friday that Italian police had discovered incriminating evidence in their latest inquiries into the 'Spygate' scandal which rocked Formula One last year.

On Thursday, senior figures at the team were interviewed by Italian investigators as part of the separate legal probe into the affair.

LONDON, Feb 28, 2008 (AFP) - Senior figures at McLaren have been interviewed by Italian investigators a part of Formula One's ongoing spying scandal, the British-based team announced Thursday.

LONDON, Jan 18, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton illustrated his stature as one of Formula One's foremost talents on Friday when he signed a new five-year contract with McLaren.

The deal ties the 23-year-old Briton to the team until 2012.

'It's fantastic for me the team has extended my contract until 2012,' said Hamilton who has been associated with McLaren since his childhood.

LONDON, Jan 8, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren-Mercedes boss Ron Dennis is set to lower his profile at the Formula One team as the German constructor looks to increase its stake, the Guardian newspaper claimed on Tuesday.

STUTTGART, Germany, Jan 7, 2008 (AFP) - McLaren unveiled their new car for the 2008 Formula One season, the MP4-23, which team boss Ron Dennis believed would be competitive in the drivers' and constructors' world championship this year.

PARIS, Jan 6, 2008 (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton insists last year's spying scandal and the heavy hand of McLaren team politics have been consigned to history as he takes aim at the 2008 Formula One world title.

LONDON, Dec 14, 2007 (AFP) - Finland's Heikki Kovalainen will race alongside Lewis Hamilton at Formula One team McLaren from next season, the team announced on Friday.

Kovalainen, who was with Renault last season, replaces two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, who left McLaren last month after suffering an often strained relationship with the team in 2007.

LONDON, Dec 13, 2007 (AFP) - Formula One team McLaren on Thursday issued a public apology over their role in the spying saga which rocked the world championship this year.

The team confirmed data from Ferrari penetrated the team more deeply than revealed.

LONDON, Dec 7, 2007 (AFP) - Formula One giants McLaren insisted on Friday they were confident of being cleared in the latest investigation into the espionage row that has rocked the sport.

A meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Monaco concluded that there should be another meeting in February in which the legality of the new McLaren Mercedes will be determined.

MONACO, Dec 6, 2007 (AFP) - Renault on Thursday escaped punishment in the latest spying row to rock Formula One.

The sport's governing body, the FIA, found the French team to be in breach of regulations when they were accused of being in possession of technical data of rivals McLaren.

LONDON, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) - Finland's Kimi Raikkonen has been confirmed the 2007 Formula One world champion after McLaren's appeal was thrown out by a court of appeal, the sport's world governing body, the FIA, said on Friday.

The last remaining hope of Britain's Lewis Hamilton to become world champion was crushed by this decision.

LONDON, Nov 15, 2007 (AFP) - A decision at the appeal hearing, launched by Formula One team McLaren-Mercedes against Williams and BMW Sauber, is expected on Friday, world motorsports governing body FIA said.

PARIS, Nov 13, 2007 (AFP) - The appeal hearing launched by Formula One team McLaren-Mercedes against Williams and BMW Sauber has been moved to London from Paris because of strikes planned in the French capital in the coming days, the sport's governing body, the FIA, confirmed on Tuesday.

The meeting will take place as scheduled on Thursday morning, but in the British capital.

LONDON, Nov 11, 2007 (AFP) - British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton insisted Sunday that he wants to stay with McLaren for life.

The 22-year-old narrowly missed out on the driver's championship title in his first full season and looks set to be McLaren's number one driver next season after the departure of Fernando Alonso.

PARIS, Nov 9, 2007 (AFP) - Formula One team Renault on Friday denied accusations of spying on their rivals McLaren.

Renault chiefs have been summoned to attend a hearing of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on December 6 when they could be hit with heavy penalties.

LONDON, Nov 8, 2007 (AFP) - Formula One team Renault face a charge of possessing 'confidential information' belonging to their rivals McLaren.

The team have been accused of receiving information that included 'the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car', according to the sport's governing body.

LONDON, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) - Fernando Alonso's stormy year with McLaren came to a shuddering halt on Friday with