Toto Wolff moved to play down Mercedes' enormous advantage on the timesheets after Friday practice for the Australian Grand Prix, joking that the likes of Ferrari and Red... read more »

Robert Kubica revealed that he was prevented from driving the Williams car over kerbs during practice for the Australian Grand Prix due to fears over costly damage being done... read more »

Lewis Hamilton suggested that Mercedes' eye-catching performance in Friday practice for the Australian Grand Prix was not a major improvement on their running during... read more »

The eagerly-anticipated Formula 1 2019 season has finally arrived with the Australian GP opening the battle for the World Championship live on Sky Sports F1 this weekend. read more »

Tough first day for rookie Alexander Albon as he hits the wall in first practice for the 2019 Australian Grand Prix. read more »

The most important part of the programme was getting an understanding of the car and its behaviour so as to prepare it for Saturday and Sunday. read more »

Valtteri Bottas suspects Ferrari's pace remains a threat to Mercedes despite dropping back on the timesheet in FP2 at the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

From our side in general, we're relatively pleased with both sessions. We have work to do in order to improve the balance of the car. read more »

Max Verstappen proved to be Mercedes' closest rival in Free Practice for the Australian Grand Prix but says Red Bull aren't fast enough. read more »

Our long runs look fairly reasonable, and even though it's still early days, we're quite happy with our pace. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo says he and the Renault Formula 1 team were caught out by a "strange" seatbelt issue on the opening day of Australian Grand Prix practice read more »

Formula 1 rookie Alex Albon says his crash that caused a red flag in the first Australian Grand Prix practice session was a result of his inexperience and overheated tyres read more »

It has been the first time that we have had both Robert and George driving at the same time, which has given us a chance to compare their feedback and gain an understanding of... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo says it would be a pretty solid Saturday if he could replicate his seventh place finish from second practice during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

It was a solid day today. We did a lot of testing, and we achieved what we wanted to achieve. read more »

We have a solid day of work behind us, there were no big issues. read more »

All the best bits from FP2 in Melbourne, where there were spins, lucky escapes and two very fast Mercedes... For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says Mercedes appear to be "in a league of their own" after dominating Friday practice for the 2019 F1 Australian Grand Prix.  read more »

Recapping all of the news and notes from the Albert Park paddock on Friday, here is Michael Lamonato's notebook. read more »

We looked to have reasonable pace on both the short and long runs; we still need to look through all the information, but we are reasonably happy with the opening day. read more »

Williams Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica claims his Australian Grand Prix Friday running was compromised by minor damage and having to stay off the kerbs due to a spares shortage read more »

We will look at the data tonight and see what we can improve but from the engine side there were no problems and it all ran very smoothly. read more »

Sebastian Vettel says suggestions that Mercedes might be struggling coming into the 2019 Formula 1 season were outed as "bullshit" after the Silver Arrows ended... read more »

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel says Mercedes looked "much stronger than they claimed before the weekend" in Australian Grand Prix Friday practice read more »

Today's press conference with Cyril Abiteboul, Mattia Binotto, Christian Horner and Toto Wolff. read more »