The pursuit of perfection is the common thread running through everything we do at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, from the earliest meetings laying down the concept of a new racing... read more »

Following on from his maiden Formula 1 victory in the Spanish Grand Prix, Pastor Maldonado conversed with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A telephone conversation took place... read more »

Not only did the Barcelona race result mark a maiden career victory for Pastor Maldonado and Williams’ first Formula 1 win since 2004, but the first since Mark Gillan... read more »

Sauber collected another ten points in Spain on Sunday, with Kamui Kobayashi justifying his belief that the team was capable of managing a top five result. However, the... read more »

Charles Pic, DNF: "I didn't get a very good start today. From then on I was working well on my pace and got the right side of the HRTs again. Things were going well... read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: What can I say – a massive result for the team and a stunning drive by Pastor. The whole race went well from start to finish... read more »

HRT completed its home race with the best result of the season as Pedro de la Rosa completed a four stop strategy to finish in 19th place. The sour note of the day was Narain... read more »

A massive result for the team and a stunning drive by Pastor. The whole race went well from start to finish with every team member playing a vital part in this victory. read more »

Pedro de la Rosa, 19th: "Racing in front of your home crowd is fantastic and so is finishing the race. I'm very happy because it's the second home Grand Prix of... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 2nd: “I had a very good start and had a chance to overtake on the outside, but we did not have enough speed and I hit the limiter in... read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 8th: “I’m proud of my performance today, and proud of the team too. They did a great job: a real improvement with the pitstops, following... read more »

Before today, sixth place had been the best result for a Venezuelan in a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Now 27-year-old Pastor Maldonado has banished that statistic and confirmed... read more »

Full result of the 2012 Gran Premio de Espana Santander. read more »

Extending the remarkable start to the 2012 season, Pastor Maldonado has triumphed in the Spanish Grand Prix for Williams. He becomes the first Venezuelan to win in F1 history,... read more »

Lewis Hamilton couldn't hide his disappointment after securing pole position with a dominant performance on Saturday, only to have it taken away from him. The McLaren... read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Pastor's qualifying performance was stunning today with a collection of very strong laps throughout the session which allowed us to... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 3rd: "This third place is not what we had expected. We were counting on making a step forward that would allow us to get into Q3 with less difficulty than... read more »

For the second time this year both the Sauber F1 Team drivers have made it into Q3. While Sergio Perez was able to secure his best qualifying result in Formula One so far with... read more »

We are very happy with this result. After the Mugello test, which was quite encouraging, we hoped we would be able to get both cars into Q3, and it's good to see that this... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 5th: “I think we had a chance to be in the top three but we’ve been fighting with the set-up quite a bit today. We changed... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa, 23rd: "The day went very well, especially this afternoon, so I'm very happy with what we achieved. We completed two very good laps in qualifying,... read more »

Sergio Perez says he could have achieved a better result in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, even if he admitted the session had gone better than expected. read more »

Sergio Pérez, 6th: “After the free practice sessions hadn’t been so easy for me, in qualifying the car really felt good. I think the result is... read more »

A new rule could be enforced from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards following a heated debate in the driver briefing concerning Lewis Hamilton's off-track overtake. The... read more »

The Spanish Grand Prix got underway today with the first free practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya (4.655 km). The day started with Dani Clos lining up alongside Pedro... read more »