Kamui Kobayashi, 3rd: "For me it was quite okay today, except for an hydraulic problem which prevented me from doing long runs in the afternoon. In the morning we had a... read more »

Michael Schumacher, 4th: "Our work today was reasonably good, with obviously a lot of data to be confirmed now in our technical briefings before qualifying. The second... read more »

McLaren hope to have solved the problems which have plagued Jenson Button's form recently, as the Brit has seemingly struggled to get the most from his car. Whilst his... read more »

Jenson Button: "Canada was just one of those weekends where things didn't come together - after some difficult races, I really needed the track time on Friday to find... read more »

Q: Due to a couple of accidents and a grid penalty for Pastor, we never got to see the true pace of the Williams-Renault FW34 in Montreal. What was the car capable of around... read more »

F1 technical directors admitted on Friday that they were still struggling to fully understand how to get the best out of the 2012 Pirelli tyres, despite a wealth of data... read more »

Paul Hembery, motorsport director: "The teams were disadvantaged by wet weather during free practice inMonacoa fortnight ago, and we think they were all quite rightly wary... read more »

Timo Glock, 22nd: "It has been a difficult start in Montreal for us today. The performance of the car was not perfect. We tried to evaluate some downforce levels in P1,... read more »

Paul di Resta, 5th: "The weather was a bit of a worry today with the constant threat of rain so we had a very busy morning and probably did more laps in FP1 than we... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 2nd: "I am rather pleased with the way things went this Montreal Friday. This morning, we concentrated mainly on evaluating some new updates, while in the... read more »

Michael Schumacher, 7th: "Our work was pretty typical of a normal Friday, however we used the softer tyre this morning to make sure that we could complete our full... read more »

Our initial findings suggest that there may be a difference of around 0.4-0.7 seconds between the two compounds, but as the circuit is evolving all the time, we will only be... read more »

Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher said they were happy with the data they managed to gather during practice at the Canadian Grand Prix despite being a little... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen, 15th: “It was an okay day for us. We expected rain in the afternoon so we used the super soft tyres in the morning to make sure we could do some long... read more »

Caterham had a good day for both Kovalainen and Petrov. The day went very smoothly for Vitaly with no issues and 64 laps on his tally. Heikki unfortunately crashed halfway... read more »

Heikki Kovalainen: “First I want to say thank you to the team for doing a great job and getting the car fixed and ready for most of FP2. I made a mistake on the exit... read more »

Jean-Eric Vergne, 19th: "The day went smoothly, because even if there were a couple of red flags and a few drops of rain, we managed to get through all our programme,... read more »

Timo Glock, 20th: "In general, the mixed conditions today made it very difficult to work on the car in the way we had planned. We got a good start to the day this morning,... read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: This morning we had a productive session with both drivers successfully working through their test programmes, but unfortunately the wet... read more »

Paul Di Resta, 12th: “The morning session was quite straightforward and the baseline set-up was not too far away. The track was quite green to begin with, but it was... read more »

Paul Hembery: “Of all the tyres in our range, the teams have had the least running of all on the supersoft to date, so today was very important for them to get out... read more »

We haven't achieved quite as much data gathering as perhaps we would have liked and once again it seems that the preparation of the tyres will be critical to good performance. read more »

Formula 1's latest winner, Pastor Maldonado, declared himself satisfied after he finished in the top five in both practice sessions on Friday. The Williams driver won last... read more »

Formula One is worth about $8 or $9 billion, as the sport’s owner CVC confirmed it has this week sold a 21 per cent stake to new investors. News of the sale coincided... read more »

What you see on track is just half the story. Engineers and mechanics spend hundreds of hours each race weekend finding the perfect set-up behind the scenes. In his exclusive... read more »