Sebastian Vettel says he's slowly becoming more comfortable with Aston Martin's 2021 Formula 1 challenger as he progressed into Q3 for the first time this season. read more »

George Russell was close to making it into Q3 in Qualifying in Portugal, and Williams' Dave Robson says there was a little bit of disappointment within the team he... read more »

The Finnish driver became the third different polesitter in the opening three races of the 2021 F1 season, beating Hamilton in Q3 by just 0.007 seconds, to record his 17th... read more »

Bottas failing to warm up his tyres sufficiently in Q3 last time out at Imola meant he slumped to eighth on the grid and further struggles with retaining tyre temperature in... read more »

Sebastian Vettel believes his qualifying outing at Portimao was the most comfortable he has felt at Aston Martin since joining the team. In his third race weekend with his new... read more »

Lewis Hamilton described his qualifying session as "messy" and felt he had "only one good lap" through the course of the three-part shootout in Portugal.... read more »

Sebastian Vettel conceded he did not extract the maximum from his Aston Martin despite reaching Q3 for the first time in 15 races. read more »

Red Bull driver Verstappen managed to set the fastest time out of all the first runs in Q3, only for his effort to be deleted after the stewards deemed he exceeded track limits... read more »

Sebastian Vettel ended his 15-race streak of missing Q3 with a solid display at the Portuguese Grand Prix, but felt he had more pace in him. read more »

Hamilton entered qualifying at Portimao looking to become the first driver in F1 history to hit triple-figures for pole positions.But after setting the fastest time in Q2,... read more »

F1's top two teams opted for different tyre strategies for the final runs in Q3, with the Mercedes drivers returning to medium tyres with which they had dominated in Q2,... read more »

Alpine looked strong in FP2 in Portimao, securing P5 and P6, so much so that Lando Norris is worried about making it to Q3 ahead of them. read more »

Lando Norris says McLaren is unconvinced that it can qualify in the top half of the grid in Portugal and conveyed surprise at the speed displayed by Alpine. Norris holds third... read more »

The Briton, who finished on the podium at Imola a fortnight ago, was eighth in the morning session and 12th in the afternoon on a day when the wind and low grip track surface... read more »

Lance Stroll will start inside the top ten on Sunday despite having both laps in Q3 deleted for exceeding track limits. read more »

After losing out to Red Bull in the fight for pole at the Bahrain Grand Prix three weeks ago, Mercedes struck back at Imola as Lewis Hamilton topped qualifying on Saturday.But... read more »

In only his second event for Red Bull, Perez out-qualified team-mate Max Verstappen and felt he actually lost pole at Imola to Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton with a mistake in... read more »

Norris was on course to take third place on the grid for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, which would have been his best-ever qualifying result in F1, but saw his fastest lap... read more »

Mercedes driver Hamilton upset the formbook to clinch pole position ahead of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen, who both made mistakes on their final Q3 laps at Imola and missed... read more »

After failing to reach Q3 at Imola, Carlos Sainz says the track has exposed the lack of mileage he has under his belt for Ferrari. read more »

Valtteri Bottas was "confused" why the same oversteer problem had occurred twice in Q3 at Imola, leaving him eighth on the grid for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. read more »

After finishing ninth in final practice on Saturday morning at Imola, Alonso struggled throughout qualifying, scraping through Q1 before propping up the timesheets in Q2.In his... read more »

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz believes it will "only be a matter of time" before he equals the speed of team-mate Charles Leclerc, having been out-paced at the opening two... read more »

Charles Leclerc was left "frustrated" at an individual error made in Q3 for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix despite qualifying on the second row. read more »

Valtteri Bottas says he lacked trust from the rear of his Mercedes W12 after his worst dry-weather qualifying result in three years. Bottas was in contention up front... read more »