Mercedes boss Ross Brawn has defended his team's decision not to pit its drivers for a fresh set of intermediate tyres during today's qualifying session in Malaysia. read more »

The car was well balanced on both dry compounds and the intermediate tyres, and we made a pretty good job of judging the conditions. read more »

Sebastian Vettel mastered tricky conditions to claim the 38th pole position of his career in Malaysia. Rain hit the circuit halfway through Q2, leaving the track wet enough for... read more »

Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix during a rain-hit qualifying session at Sepang on Saturday afternoon, overcoming his rivals on the... read more »

Both Toro Rosso drivers had a productive day at Malaysia with both men managing to drive numerous laps on the hard, medium and intermediate tyre. The team is aware that it... read more »

Jean-Eric Vergne thought he was pitting for another set of intermediate tyres, but Toto Rosso thought slicks would be the better option for Q2 in Melbourne. read more »

Martin Whitmarsh concedes that in hindsight McLaren should have put Sergio Perez on the intermediate tyres during Q2 for the Australian GP.... read more »

The car performed well on both the full wet and the intermediate tyres. Unfortunately Esteban was caught out by one of the kerbs in the wet. However, he had a very good pace... read more »

A downpour during the final practice session for the Australian Grand Prix gave teams the opportunity to sample the wet and intermediate tyres ahead of what is expected to be a... read more »

Sauber drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez believe the C32 is not yet working well on the 2013-specification intermediate tyres read more »

Esteban Gutierrez admitted that the intermediate tyres are "the most difficult ones" for Sauber read more »

With low temperatures, light rain in the morning and heavier rain, including hale, after mid-day , the final day of testing was far from ideal for Sauber. However, Esteban... read more »

Tyres Total number of tyres provided for the season: Race tyres: 31,800 of which 22,500 dry tyres and 9,300 wet tyres plus an additional 6,600 for the tests (not including... read more »

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets as Formula 1 enjoyed its first taste of Austin’s Circuit of the Americas on Friday morning. Fitting... read more »

Lewis Hamilton ought to be leaving Woking with three or four world titles under his belt, but as it stands it's likely he will leave with just one. Hamilton famously won... read more »

Lewis Hamilton remained fastest during the second practice at Hungary. The McLaren driver set a time on slicks during one of the dry periods and went faster than... read more »

Lewis Hamilton remained fastest as rain affected proceedings in Hungary on Friday afternoon. The McLaren driver, managing to set a lap time on Slicks during a dry period, led... read more »

Ross Brawn blamed Nico Rosberg's struggles to get temperature into intermediate rubber for the German's poor qualifying performance at Hockenheim read more »

It was a very eventful qualifying today but the positive thing was that our car was fundamentally fast in both the dry, intermediate and wet parts of the session. read more »

The Santander British Grand Prix at Silverstone was another 2012 classic: Fernando Alonso took the pole for Ferrari on a semi-wet track and for a while out there - until... read more »

Lewis Hamilton is bracing himself for a tough time in the British Grand Prix - after grip issues on the intermediate tyres meant he was unable to challenge for pole position read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Fernando ALONSO (Ferrari); 2 – Mark WEBBER (Red Bull Racing); 3 – Michael SCHUMACHER (Mercedes) TV... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen feels he could have improved on sixth place on the grid for the British Grand Prix if he had switched to intermediate tyres earlier in the final part of... read more »

Lewis Hamilton said the biggest problem he faced during qualifying for the British Grand Prix was getting heat in the intermediate tyres after he qualified eighth on the grid read more »

Sauber were left to rue the decision to send their drivers out on intermediate tyres, which cost them dearly in qualifying at Silverstone... read more »