Fernando Alonso battled to a damage-limiting fifth place in Melbourne as team-mate Felipe Massa was forced to retire from 13th after clashing with William’s Bruno Senna late in... read more »

Jenson Button's fastest race lap during the Australian Grand Prix averaged 133.010 mph, marginally slower than {i}Sky News{/i} Mark Kleinman can remove a post from his blog. read more »

Michael Schumacher's Australian GP came to a disappointing end 10 laps into the race when a gearbox problem forced him to retire while in third place... read more »

Only 58 laps into the season and Mark Webber reckons the markers have already been laid down with a battle raging between Red Bull and McLaren... read more »

HRT continued their struggle into the start of the season, as the team just nearly managed to get Pedro De La Rosa's car ready in time for FP2, after missing FP1. A... read more »

Catherham had a positive start to the season, with their first laps at Melbourne quickly showing a reasonable car balance and the expected performance. The team also claimed to... read more »

HRT team boss Luis Perez-Sala somehow found positives from Friday, which saw his drivers cover 20 laps with a best time that was 13s off the pace... read more »

Overall this was a good day for us. Daniel and Jean-Eric did a very good job to get as many laps under their belt as possible. read more »

The new Toro Rosso duo was pleased with performances as the 2012 season was launched in Australia on Friday afternoon. Replacing Sébastien Buemi and Jaime... read more »

Action! The wait is practically over and Formula 1 is going racing again around the streets of Albert Park. However, we’ve got those all-important qualifying laps... read more »

HRT team boss Luis Perez-Sala is hoping to minimise the damage done by missing testing when the team hits the track at Melbourne on Friday... read more »

Narain Karthikeyan: "I’m feeling positive ahead of the Australian Grand Prix after having completed 10 laps with the new F112 last Monday. Of course this read more »

The F112, the car with which HRT contest the season, completed its first laps at the Circuit de Catalunya today. read more »

Beaten to the punch by tail-end rival, the HRT eventually hit the track in Barcelona with its new 2012 contender. read more »

The HRT Formula 1 team has completed its first laps with the team's 2012 chassis: the F112. At Circuit de Catalunya the Spanish outfit completed a few laps at the end... read more »

The new HRT F112 completed its first laps at the Barcelona circuit on Monday ahead of its grand prix debut in Australia in less than two weeks. read more »

After three collective tests and 12 individual days of official winter running, Mercedes travels to Australia with the most miles under its belt. Williams completed only 19... read more »

Although their expected Melbourne grid positions could not be much more different this year, it was a reverse of the order in terms of mileage at the final pre-season test in... read more »

Marussia unveiled their 2012 challenger, the MR01, at Silverstone on Monday as they looked to put some laps on the new car... read more »

Lotus F1 Team finished their pre-season testing with Kimi Räikkönen setting the fastest time of the day at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona today. Kimi’s 1min 22.030secs... read more »

Sahara Force India wrapped up its winter test programme today with Nico Hulkenberg covering 101 laps in the VJM05 as the team finalised its preparations for the season-opening... read more »

Circuit: Catalunya, 4.655 kms Driver: Daniel Ricciardo Car: STR7 – 03 Laps: 100 Best time: 1:23.393 “Looking forward to Melbourne – Can’t... read more »

T03 Barcelona – Day Four Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona – 4th March 2012 Driver: Vitaly Petrov Chassis: CT01-#3 Total laps: 101 Best lap: 1.22.795 Vitaly... read more »

World Champion Sebastian Vettel has faced a difficult final day of pre-season testing in Barcelona, most of which has been spent in the garage as Red Bull attempts to cure a... read more »

As the teams break for lunch on the final day of pre-season testing, a late charge sees Kimi Raikkonen go quickest, while Sebastian Vettel, who has only completed 15 laps, is... read more »