Pirelli Motorsport Director, Paul Hembery: "Everybody has faced extremely tough conditions during the first day of running in Malaysia. Luckily our tyres have performed... read more »

Timo Glock: "It's difficult to gauge everything that was going on up and down the pitlane today, but I think we had a reasonable day. read more »

Narain Karthikeyan: "In the morning we didn't have the best of starts, I lost a lot of time because there were some issues with the read more »

Michael Schumacher: "We had a pretty good first day on track here in Sepang. We definitely made a step in the right direction, we were read more »

Fernando Alonso - 9th: "Given how things went today, it looks like being a difficult weekend, but we will do all we can to get read more »

PRESS CONFERENCE Q: TEAM PRINCIPALS - Eric BOULLIER (Renault), Ross BRAWN (Mercedes), Paul HEMBERY (Pirelli), Christian HORNER (Red Bull), Colin KOLLES (HRT), Monisha... read more »

Frida's Press Conference from Malaysia with Eric Boullier (Renault), Ross Brawn (Mercedes), Paul Hembery (Pirelli), Christian Horner (Red Bull), Monisha Kaltenborn... read more »

Red Bull's Christian Horner, Renault's Eric Boullier and Ross Brawn from Mercedes all attended Friday's FIA press conference in Malaysia... read more »

Malaysia Friday quotes: HRT read more »

Renault boss Eric Boullier could only shrug his shoulders after they discovered that a faulty material batch was to blame for their woes on Friday... read more »

Three cars from as many different teams would have missed the 107 percent cut in Malaysia on Friday, although it has to be noted that circumstances will vary by qualifying on... read more »

Friday's press conference - Malaysia read more »

Malaysia Friday quotes: Pirelli read more »

Lotus were not the quickest of Formula 1’s three newest teams on Friday in Malaysia, with that particular title going to Virgin and Timo Glock. Instead, Jarno Trulli and Heikki... read more »

Sauber have finished Friday 14th and 15th quickest in Malaysia, with Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez separated by two tenths of a second but two and a half full seconds off... read more »

Adrian Sutil: "We had a disappointing day. I went out on the first lap of the morning session and straight away we had some KERS read more »

Mark Webber: “We look okay, but it’s still early days in a race weekend. We got some dry running in and the car performed well. read more »

James Allison, Technical Director: “Both Vitaly and Nick suffered failures under braking in the front uprights early in the first session. As a precaution we read more »

Jenson Button: “This afternoon’s session was much better than this morning’s. We found things a little difficult during P1; after Melbourne, we... read more »

Davide Valsecchi: “It was nice, so nice and such a good feeling to be in the car here in Malaysia. My lap times weren’t incredible read more »

Adrian Sutil was distinctively downcast after Friday free practice in Malaysia, having managed no more than 17th place after qualifying fourth for Force India at the same venue... read more »

Toro Rosso once gain split Friday duties between its two race driver and Daniel Ricciardo. Despite early work, both race drivers agree there is still a lot of set-up work to... read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: After some minor electrical issues with the KERS in the morning session, we had good reliability this afternoon. Our main target read more »

Kamui Kobayashi: “Although I don’t personally mind the high temperatures, they do make a difference. I can’t complain about the tyres, as they are... read more »

Jaime Alguersuari: “A good number of laps and a reasonable lap time in FP2 after we managed to make big improvements from the morning session. read more »