Sebastian Vettel's 2011 qualifying tally now stands at seven poles from eight grands prix, as the world champion took his 22nd Formula 1 career pole in Valencia. read more »

There was no home advantage for Jaime Alguersuari in first qualifying for the European GP, as he drops out in Q1 for the third race running. read more »

Welcome to live text commentary for the 2011 European Grand Prix qualifying session from Valencia. You can follow the commentary via this page, or on our read more »

Sebastian Vettel led the way in the final practice session ahead of qualifying for the European Grand Prix, holding a comfortable 0.420s cushion to his closest competitor... read more »

Formula 1's top teams could be hurt by up to half a second per lap in qualifying due to the clampdown on engine mapping imposed at this weekend's European Grand Prix,... read more »

Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets once again in the last free practice session ahead of this afternoon's qualifying for the European GP. The World Champion went... read more »

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel is the fastest man in Valencia ahead of this afternoon’s qualifying for the European Grand Prix. Ferrari was deprived of a... read more »

Pirelli is to make a push to change Formula 1's qualifying rules to prevent drivers from being tempted to not run in qualifying in a bid to save tyres, AUTOSPORT can reveal read more »

Sergio Perez will contest his first F1 qualifying session since crashing out of the one in Monaco after coming through Friday's European GP practice with no ill-effects. read more »

Colin Kolles, Hispania Racing Team Principal: “Basically we ran through our programmes for the race setup, we have not made any special qualifying setup, it read more »

Sergio Pérez is sure that he will be able to race in Valencia this weekend, having pulled out of Montreal following first practice. After his heavy accident in Monte... read more »

Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso are this evening the names at the top of the practice timesheets ahead of tomorrow’s qualifying session for the European Grand Prix in... read more »

Fernando Alonso hints at competitive qualifying session in Valencia after heading Friday free practice for Ferrari. read more »

Fernando Alonso beat Lewis Hamilton to the quickest time of second practice to increase hopes of another competitive qualifying session for the European Grand Prix. read more »

Lewis Hamilton believes there is a chance that he can end Red Bull Racing's qualifying dominance in Valencia this weekend thanks to the changes in the engine-mapping rules. read more »

Renault boss Eric Boullier believes the impending ban on engine map changes between qualifying and the race should have been postponed until 2012 read more »

World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has played down concerns that Red Bull could suffer a dip in performance following FIA rule tweaks which prohibit engine mapping... read more »

Nick Heidfeld believes the new rule that stops teams from changing the engine mapping between qualifying and the race is going "too far". read more »

Mark Webber says the rule changes stopping teams from changing engine mapping between qualifying and the race are unlikely to have a big effect on the field. read more »

Williams could gain a performance boost thanks to the FIA's decision to ban both off-throttle blowing of the diffuser and the changing of engine maps between qualifying... read more »

Martin Whitmarsh says that he is "hopeful" that McLaren can be competitive in qualifying for the European Grand Prix. read more »

The FIA have today banned the practice of changing engine mapping from qualifying to the race, a move which has been received with surprise by some of the teams. Previously,... read more »

The governing body, the FIA, has written to the teams to warn them that engine mapping changes will be banned between qualifying and the race. The read more »

The FIA has written to the teams informing them that they will not be allowed to change engine map settings between qualifying and the race from this weekend's European... read more »

Formula 1 teams are to face a further clampdown on engine mapping use from this weekend's European Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT has learned, with the FIA moving to eradicate... read more »