Ross Brawn does not think the new Mercedes W04 is capable of challenging for the championship in its current state of competitiveness, but believes the gains in performance the... read more »

Felipe Massa is looking forward to a fresh start in 2013 and is aiming to maintain his level of performance from the end of 2012 throughout this year read more »

Mark Webber paid tribute to Red Bull for its efforts throughout the second pre-season test at the Circuit de Catalunya this week, with the Australian describing an... read more »

The very cold and damp conditions today made it difficult to do performance testing today, but it did enable Giede van der Garde to get to know a Formula One car in the wet, as... read more »

Lewis Hamilton has ended the first Barcelona test on top as he was fastest in the morning on a damp track. As ever, teams did not focus on performance that much in the... read more »

The alarm in the paddock about Pirelli's 2013 tyres is growing louder with every day. The latest shock is the performance of the new 'supersoft' tyre, which - to... read more »

The alarm in the paddock about Pirelli’s 2013 tyres is growing louder with every day. The latest shock is the performance of the new ‘supersoft’... read more »

Jenson Button says it has been ‘very tricky’ to understand the true performance of McLaren’s new MP4-28 chassis during pre-season testing so far,... read more »

Adrian Sutil believes he has done everything he can to secure the remaining Force India seat, but believes the team's decision is not wholly based on outright performance read more »

Jenson Button has admitted that McLaren is struggling to understand its 2013 car and extract consistent performance from it. read more »

Nico Hulkenberg said the performance of the Pirelli tyres in Barcelona was making "proper testing" difficult for the teams read more »

Valtteri Bottas said he "can really feel" the performance improvement on the new Williams FW35 and says the car is clearly better on traction read more »

Daniel Ricciardo said he is "pretty pleased" with the aerodynamic performance of the STR8 after the opening day at Barcelona read more »

Lotus technical director James Allison says the team will focus on performance and understanding tyres during the second test this week at Barcelona read more »

Tyre supplier Pirelli has announced which compounds will be used for the opening four races of 2013. Pirelli will bring the Super Soft compound tyre to the Australian Grand... read more »

Mika Hakkinen doesn't believe Mercedes, going by their Jerez pre-season form, will be a match for McLaren this season. The Finnish champion admitted it was too early to... read more »

The attention to detail in F1, including hours spent driving in a simulator, is astonishing, writes BBC commentator Ben Edwards read more »

Lotus head to the second pre-season test in Barcelona next week in high spirits, with technical director James Allison admitting he is so far happy with the E21's... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen was pleased with his performance during his second day at the wheel of the E21, concluding an encouraging week for Lotus... read more »

Giedo van der Garde says Caterham has made a solid step forward with front-end performance this year, having tested the CT03 for the first time at Jerez this week. The... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen may well have topped the times on the final day of testing, but the Lotus driver admits it means nothing in terms of how competitive their car is. The Finn is... read more »

Sauber praised Esteban Gutierrez's performance in the first test of the new season as "excellent" read more »

Ross Brawn has described new recruit Lewis Hamilton as a key ‘part of the solution’ to Mercedes’s performance deficit, explaining that the former... read more »

Max Chilton is encouraged by the performance of his Marussia team's new Formula 1 car, despite limited running in Jerez read more »

Max Chilton said Marussia was pleasantly surprised by the MR02's potential after some performance runs on day three at Jerez read more »