The Williams F1 Team today confirmed that it will run Valtteri Bottas during the Young Driver Test at Silverstone Circuit, UK on 12 and 13 July 2012. Valtteri was promoted to... read more »
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Q. How would you sum up the performance of the Williams-Renault FW34 at Silverstone? Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: In general we were reasonably happy with... read more »
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Michael Schumacher, 3rd: "There are still things to be learned on days like these and the positive about today's rain was that it is also forecast for tomorrow and... read more »
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Paul Di Resta: “Very difficult conditions today, but sometimes you get weather like this. So we had to be patient and choose our moments because the track conditions... read more »
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Kamui Kobayashi, 2nd: “In wet conditions our car is quite okay, but it is difficult if not impossible to guess how it would be on a dry track here. However, the... read more »
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Timo felt well enough to take part in FP1 this morning to help with the gathering of vital data for the rest of the weekend. Marussia were keen to ensure he didn’t rush his... read more »
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A solid day of practice in Valencia and we managed to get through our programme of test items, which included some aero parts and items we had evaluated in the simulator. read more »
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Timo Glock, 21st: "I have to be quite pleased with the work I have done today, as it has not been an easy day of Free Practice for me. I seem to have picked up a stomach... read more »
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Bruno Senna, 5th: It was a good day and we managed to fulfil our test programme. It would have been useful to have done a few more miles but we have still gathered a lot of... read more »
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Paul Di Resta, 6th: "When I got in the car this morning the baseline set-up was a good starting point and I didn't really change that much for the rest of the day.... read more »
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Heikki Kovalainen, 19th: "A pretty good Friday for me, with both sessions going to plan. In FP2 we ran a new version of the front wing and the initial feel it gave was... read more »
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Michael Schumacher, 4th: "Our work today was reasonably good, with obviously a lot of data to be confirmed now in our technical briefings before qualifying. The second... read more »
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Heikki Kovalainen says he is hopeful that Caterham's ongoing development programme can help bridge the gap to F1's midfield teams. read more »
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This year’s Silverstone F1 Forum, the post-race programme run by the BBC, will be broadcast live from the stage of the British Grand Prix. In the Entertainment Zone,... read more »
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Sebastian Vettel said a switch to a two-stop race seven laps from the end of the Canadian Grand Prix was the right call after a gamble on a one-stop programme failed to yield... read more »
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Timo Glock, 22nd: "It has been a difficult start in Montreal for us today. The performance of the car was not perfect. We tried to evaluate some downforce levels in P1,... read more »
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Pastor Maldonado, 13th: "We completed all of the things that we had planned for the session so we have had a productive day and are in a good place heading into the... read more »
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Paul di Resta, 5th: "The weather was a bit of a worry today with the constant threat of rain so we had a very busy morning and probably did more laps in FP1 than we... read more »
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Fernando Alonso, 2nd: "I am rather pleased with the way things went this Montreal Friday. This morning, we concentrated mainly on evaluating some new updates, while in the... read more »
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Michael Schumacher, 7th: "Our work was pretty typical of a normal Friday, however we used the softer tyre this morning to make sure that we could complete our full... read more »
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HRT focused through FP1 on tyre evaluation, expecting that rain would fall during the afternoon. In the afternoon the team continued to test the upgrades which were... read more »
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Sebastian Vettel, 4th: “We ran the super soft tyres this morning thinking there would be rain this afternoon; in the end it didn’t come but you never know... read more »
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Kamui Kobayashi, 6th: "I am happy as we had a very smooth day today. It was nice that the weather conditions remained stable and the rain only came after the second free... read more »
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Jean-Eric Vergne, 19th: "The day went smoothly, because even if there were a couple of red flags and a few drops of rain, we managed to get through all our programme,... read more »
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Michael Schumacher believes that Mercedes' programme in free practice for the Canadian Grand Prix disguised its true potential read more »