The FIA has made a last minute tweak to qualifying to encourage drivers to participate during the third part of the hour-long session. read more »

FIA Race Director Charlie Whiting expects the 107 per cent qualifying rule to be relaxed this season. read more »

Charlie Whiting has all but stated that the 107 percent qualifying rule will not be enforced this weekend in Australia... read more »

The FIA has approved changes to the qualifying format ahead of this weekend's season opener in Australia. read more »

The FIA has given the green light to the proposed qualifying changes for the 2014 season just days ahead of the first race of the season. As The F1 Times reported in February,... read more »

The FIA has rubberstamped proposals to alter the Formula 1 qualifying format ahead of this weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix read more »

As Formula One teams get ready to go racing in Melbourne, it has become obvious that the behaviour of engines will be considerably different during qualifying and the actual races. read more »

The FIA has confirmed that there will be two DRS zones for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix. As in 2013, there will be one detection zone on the entry of turn 14. DRS... read more »

Adrian Sutil believes the season-opening Australian Grand Prix could be a lottery as Formula 1 enters a new era. 1.6 litre v6 power units have replaced 2.4 litre v8 engines and... read more »

Fernando Alonso believes the difference between qualifying and racing will be bigger than ever in 2014 and drivers "won't get anywhere near" the pace they run at... read more »

Ferrari racer Fernando Alonso says that drivers will have to be clever in 2014 in order to reach the end of races. The Spaniard, entering his fifth season with Ferrari,... read more »

In an attempt to stop the final qualifying session from turning into a farce, the FIA are expected to make some changes to format for the 2014 season... read more »

Sauber driver Esteban Gutierrez believes that he must improve on his qualifying performances if he is to move up the grid in 2014. Gutierrez made it through to the final... read more »

During an exclusive interview with Crash.net, Esteban Gutierrez says the key to beating Adrian Sutil and becoming Sauber's team leader lies in his qualifying... read more »

Renault head into the opening race of the season in Australia with many unknowns; whether their power unit can complete a race distance; whether it meets the strict fuel... read more »

Caterham have ended their pre-season testing with another positive day as Kamui Kobayashi managed to complete 106 laps. Sadly, a clutch failure in the last hour denied the team... read more »

With Force India showing strong reliability but hiding its qualifying speed on Saturday, Nico Hulkenberg is unsure if it can match the pace of Williams and... read more »

Felipe Massa has been encouraged by the performance Williams is able to show after setting the fastest time of the two Bahrain tests so far on the penultimate... read more »

Felipe Massa was again in the cockpit of the Williams FW36 today, completing a solid 99 laps an for the first time doing performance work on the car. This resulted in the best... read more »

Formula 1 teams have approved plans to tweak the qualifying format for 2014 in a bid to spice up the spectacle of Q3 read more »

A shake-up to the qualifying format has been given the go-ahead by all 11 teams on the grid, meaning it must now be approved by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. That's... read more »

The 2014 Formula 1 cars are so complex, that fixing an issue which would have taken two hours last year, will now take double that according to Ferrari's technical... read more »

The first winter test session at Bahrain allowed teams to get some valuable tyre data from the new 2014 range of Pirelli tyres. A number of teams were able to complete race... read more »

Nico Rosberg has played down his lightning pace on the final day of testing in Bahrain after he outpaced his nearest rival, Jenson Button, by over 1.6 seconds. Mercedes are... read more »

Nico Rosberg has stressed that Mercedes' ominously large timesheet advantage on the final day of the first Bahrain test was a result of the team simulating... read more »