Heikki Kovalainen was left buoyed by another strong qualifying performance at Istanbul Park on Saturday afternoon, with the Finn leading the way out of the teams that entered... read more »

Fernando Alonso has admitted that Ferrari continue to remain under pressure as the European season begins in Turkey this weekend. After being eliminated in Q2 qualifying last... read more »

The start of the 2011 Formula 1 season has statistically been the worst for Williams, whose Team Principal Sir Frank celebrates his 69th birthday on Saturday. After a Q2... read more »

Renault, podium finishers in the first two Grands Prix of 2011, failed to achieve a positive result in Chinese Grand Prix qualifying. As Vitaly Petrov stopped on circuit,... read more »

Nick Heidfeld blamed traffic during his only qualifying running in Q2 for his disappointing position ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix. read more »

Red flag in Q2 hands Toro Rosso the chance to get both cars into pole position shoot-out since Brazil 2008. read more »

Jenson Button, 2nd: “After Q2, I thought we’d have a shot at pole today, but, looking at Sebastian’s final laptime, second place was... read more »

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has blamed cold tyres for the reason why Mark Webber failed to get through to Q2 and Q3. The Australian read more »

Vitaly Petrov feels the technical problem that saw his stricken Renault cause a red flag at the end of Q2 in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix cost him a chance to place... read more »

While Mark Webber fails to make it into Q2, Sebastian Vettel takes his third pole of the season, ahead of Button, Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso, Massa, Alguersuari, di Resta, Buemi... read more »

Michael Schumacher and Nick Heidfeld were the big casualties of a torrid end to second qualifying in China. read more »

Michael Schumacher has matched his Melbourne grid position by qualifying 11th for Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The seven-time World Champion, who has been on pole at Sepang... read more »

Nico Rosberg, 9th: "The team have made some good progress here and I had a decent balance up to Q2 today. Unfortunately I lost that read more »

Jenson Button has admitted that he modified his McLaren’s setup between the second and third phases of qualifying on Saturday, having led the way in Q2 before falling to fourth... read more »

Saturday saw Team Lotus come close to making Q2 for the second successive year at Sepang, with Heikki Kovalainen having benefitted from wet conditions in 2010. Today, at what... read more »

For the second race in succession Michael Schumacher failed to make it through Q2 and will start Sunday's F1 2011 Malaysian GP from P11. read more »

Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta finished just outside the top ten during Sunday’s season-opening race in Melbourne, fighting through to 11th and 12th respectively. After a... read more »

Today’s inaugural qualifying of the 2011 season concluded in Q2 for both AT&T Williams drivers. Pastor Maldonado was rather unfortunate when setting his quick laps,... read more »

Michael Schumacher has refused to blame technical issues for his failure to make the Q2 cut in Melbourne. read more »

Pastor Maldonado (15th): I made it through Q1 fine and everything was going well. On the first set of tyres in Q2, I had two read more »

Adrian Sutil (16th): During qualifying itself our speed was ok and better than expected. On my flying lap in Q2 I was only a few hundred read more »

Team Lotus has said that it remains optimistic of a good result in the Australian GP despite a disappointing qualifying performance. read more »

Rubens Barrichello admitted that the spin that cost him a shot at qualifying in top ten for the Australian Grand Prix was down to driver error read more »

Michael Schumacher was the biggest casualty in second qualifying for the Australian GP, although Rubens Barrichello ran him close. read more »

Rubens Barrichello has labelled his Q2 error as ‘a pure error’, with the Brazilian now set to start the opening race of the season from 17th on the grid. After a troubled... read more »