Michael Schumacher said he was surprised by the pace of Nico Rosberg during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix, but was keen to congratulate his Mercedes team-mate on... read more »

Romain Grosjean is hopeful that the upgrade package his Lotus team has taken to the Chinese Grand Prix will allow the team to close the gap to McLaren. read more »

Ferrari will introduce several key upgrades at the Chinese GP in an attempt to reduce what they believe to be an eight tenth gap to the leaders. Technical read more »

Ferrari will bring five updates to the Chinese Grand Prix to try and narrow the gap to the front of the field, which technical director Pat Fry estimates is around 0.8s in dry... read more »

Caterham is hoping a series of updates will help it bridge the gap to the midfield at the next two races read more »

French prime minister Francois Fillon has revealed that discussions are still on-going with regard to the return of the French Grand Prix. read more »

Felipe Massa said Ferrari is no closer to understanding the gap in performance to his team-mate Fernando Alonso after 15 positions separated them at the Malaysian Grand Prix read more »

Michael Schumacher preferred to look at the teams behind his Mercedes on the Sepang grid, rather than at the gap to McLaren in front. read more »

Mark Webber believes that Red Bull has closed the gap to the front of the grid during qualifying and is hopeful it will retain a better race pace read more »

Marussia will line up on the penultimate row of the Malaysian Grand Prix grid, with Timo Glock again leading rookie team-mate Charles Pic. Despite this, with just three and a... read more »

Lewis Hamilton said he was at a loss to explain why he struggled for pace compared to team-mate Jenson Button at the Australian Grand Prix read more »

Lewis Hamilton says it was a surprise not only to qualify on pole position for the Australian Grand Prix, but to also have a distinct margin over pre-season favourites Red Bull read more »

The final positions may be the same that we finished with in 2011 but the gap to the cars ahead is considerably smaller and that is good news for the whole team. read more »

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn doesn't believe there is a performance gap between Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg in a race situation. In fact he read more »

Peter Sauber says this could be the season that his team closes that gap to Formula One's front runners.... read more »

Lotus team principal Eric Boullier believes that the team's latest challenger may have what it takes to mix it with the teams at the front of the grid... read more »

Jenson Button believes Sebastian Vettel is not going to enjoy the kind of advantage he held at the start of last season when the new campaign kicks off in Australia next month. read more »

Nico Rosberg is confident he still has the edge over his Mercedes team-mate Michael Schumacher, despite the seven-time world champion closing the gap in 2011 read more »

Flavio Briatore believes Ferrari will start the season "two-three tenths" off Red Bull's pace, but he is confident that Fernando Alonso can close that gap... read more »

Pirelli have unveiled their new tyres for the 2012 Formula One championship. All four dry weather tyres will be more squarer and be made of softer compounds to compensate for... read more »

Fernando Alonso has admitted an “overdose of optimism” as Ferrari looks to bounce back and win the world championship in 2012. The normally-cautious... read more »

Team Lotus finished off the last qualifying session of the year with a trouble free session, posting the 18th and 19th best times. More important for the team though is the gap... read more »

Fernando Alonso believes his performance in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix has flattered the actual pace of his Ferrari. read more »

Jan Charouz declared himself highly satisfied to be little more than half a second adrift of HRT race driver Daniel Ricciardo as he made his grand prix weekend debut in Brazil read more »

Mark Webber says he intends to carry the momentum of a strong end to the 2011 season through Formula 1's winter break as he aims to close the gap to Red Bull team-mate and... read more »