We leave the opening long haul leg behind as a much stronger team and with plenty of cause for optimism for the start of the European season. read more »

Fernando Alonso, 7th: “It went a bit better than we feared and we managed to limit the damage. We had arrived here eight points down on the championship leader and we... read more »

Sergio Perez, 11th: "We knew this circuit would not be an easy one for us and we were just too slow today. We tried both strategies and split them between the cars but... read more »

Paul Di Resta, 6th: "The result today is massive for us. The team did an amazing job all weekend, the strategy came together and the pit-stops were perfect. We knew it... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 1st: "It was an incredible race, extremely tough. A good start was crucial and I was able to pull away from the pack, which was a big advantage as we... read more »

McLaren were very much the big losers in Bahrain, jettisoning the lead in both championships as two costly pit-stop problems were made. Following errors in both Melbourne and... read more »

Ninth and 14th on the grid for Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa respectively is pretty much what Ferrari expected from Saturday's qualifying session in Bahrain. read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull), 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 3 – Mark WEBBER (Red Bull) TV UNILATERAL... read more »

Mark Gillan, chief operations engineer: "We have had a relatively tough day today with Pastor experiencing a KERs problem in qualifying which forced us to pit his car and... read more »

Charles Pic, 20th: "Not an easy day today, but I am quite happy with the result. This afternoon it was much hotter as forecast and the tyre degradation was maybe a little... read more »

Nico Rosberg, 5th: "In general, I felt very comfortable during qualifying today. However, as we have been focusing on our race pace, there is always a compromise in the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 1st: “It feels great and I completely owe this one to the team. It wasn’t an easy start to the season for us and there was a lot of... read more »

Sergio Pérez, 8th: “Today was a very good qualifying and another great effort by the team. The result is a lot better than we expected after free practice.... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa: "I’m very happy to be honest. We come from not qualifying in Australia not long ago, so when I saw the times we posted I was glad. For us... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says he and Mark Webber owe their strong qualifying performance to the hard work put in by the Red Bull team. The German, who dominated Saturday in 2011 by... read more »

Heikki Kovalainen, 16th: “That was an excellent qualifying session for our team. It's a real bonus for us getting into Q2 but we'd already seen this morning... read more »

Bahrain 2012 is all about tyres, said Shanghai winner Nico Rosberg on Friday. More specifically, Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport revealed that the key to victory this... read more »

Coming from the Far to the Middle East has not changed much for Scuderia Ferrari, apart from the much higher temperatures on this island in the Persian Gulf, than in China.... read more »

Sauber are set to announce a major new sponsor at the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix in three weeks time, but the company still remains a mystery. In China the team ran blue... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 8th: "Traditionally, I've always gone well at this track, one of the few where I have won three times. And so it's always a pleasure to drive at... read more »

Lotus technical director James Allison has warned against reading too much into his cars' lap times during free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Nico Rosberg is refusing to get carried about by his latest P1 conceding that being the fastest on a Friday doesn't mean much... read more »

Force India is confident that missing second practice in Bahrain will not impact too much on its competitiveness for the rest of the weekend. read more »

With young Seb only making it to the podium once so far this season, we haven't seen much of the dastardly digit, so Gurmit got to wondering what it's doing these days. read more »

Bernie Ecclestone's latest proposal is that F1's most important races become a tennis-like 'Grand Slam'. Insisting that the calendar will probably not... read more »