Despite feeling he was missing pace in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, Valtteri Bottas takes heart from his 10th F1 podium finish. read more »

Mercedes have defended their strategy for the Australian GP, attributing the pace of Ferrari rather than Lewis Hamilton's early pitstop for their season-opening defeat. read more »

Disappointed Daniel Ricciardo takes some comfort in Max Verstappen's pace read more »

Sebastian Vettel has confirmed Ferrari's strong pre-season pace by taking victory at the Australian Grand Prix, the inaugural race of the 2017 Formula One Championship.... read more »

A year after Haas claims a historic - if fortuitous - top six finish on its F1 debut, pure pace takes Romain Grosjean to row three for the Australian GP. read more »

It was a positive first qualifying session with the R.S.17 although it's frustrating not to make Q3 as the pace was there. read more »

After a disappointing qualifying in Melbourne Red Bull's drivers downplayed the impact of the removal of the team's controversial 'trick' suspension, saying... read more »

Jolyon Palmer will start the Australian Grand Prix at the back of the grid after being well off the pace during qualifying on Saturday. read more »

Sebastian Vettel sets pace in final practice session as Lance Stroll crash compromises qualifying simulations. read more »

Ferrari finish the opening day of the 2017 Australian Grand Prix as best of the rest as Mercedes lead by more than half a second. read more »

Home boy Daniel Ricciardo was pleased with the teams performance during FP1 this morning, but feels they need to look at what happened in FP2 to take them off the pace. read more »

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Daniel Ricciardo believes Red Bull can make significant gains to Mercedes' early pace before qualifying for the season-opening Australian Grand... read more »

Valtteri Bottas was pleased with his first day of running during practice for the Australian Grand Prix on Friday, despite being half a second off the pace of team-mate Lewis... read more »

Max Verstappen says Red Bull is not on the pace of Mercedes and Ferrari at the Australian Grand Prix after finishing Friday practice in fifth and sixth. Verstappen was nearly... read more »

Our long run pace looked decent but it's harder to tell where we stand at this stage in terms of single lap pace. We'll find out tomorrow. read more »

Sebastian Vettel has blamed poor car balance for Ferrari's disappointing performance during Friday practice for the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix read more »

Lewis Hamilton continued to set the pace in Australia in second practice, but the session was affected by an early crash by Jolyon Palmer at the final turn. read more »

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton maintained his perfect start to 2017 by again setting the benchmark pace in second practice at Albert Park. Hamilton, who... read more »

Lewis Hamilton puts in a scintillating performance to set the pace in second practice at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Hamilton leads once again as Ferrari and Red Bull fall way short in FP2. read more »

F1 delivered on its promise to up the pace as Lewis Hamilton topped the timesheets in the first FP1 of the season in Melbourne, 5.5 seconds faster than last year's P1 time. read more »

Lewis Hamilton set the pace in the first session of the 2017 F1 season as Mercedes topped the timesheets in Practice One for the Australian GP. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo reckons Red Bull is within half a second of Mercedes, and claims its testing programme was the best he's experienced with the Formula 1 team read more »

Mallaya is confident of a double points finish for Sahara Force India despite there being a lot of uncertainty regarding everybody's true pace. read more »

Red Bull chief Christian Horner predicts Valtteri Bottas to be immediately on the pace against Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes read more »