Ninth and 14th on the grid for Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa respectively is pretty much what Ferrari expected from Saturday's qualifying session in Bahrain. read more »

After the third free practice on Saturday morning things didn’t look promising at all with both Sauber F1 Team drivers being unhappy with their cars. Further set-up changes... read more »

For those who feared a tough qualifying session for Williams, there was no Q1 elimination at Sakhir but the Grove team still experienced its worst Saturday of 2012 so far.... read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull), 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 3 – Mark WEBBER (Red Bull) TV UNILATERAL... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber completed the line-up for the post-qualifying press conference in Bahrain... read more »

Mark Gillan, chief operations engineer: "We have had a relatively tough day today with Pastor experiencing a KERs problem in qualifying which forced us to pit his car and... read more »

Charles Pic, 20th: "Not an easy day today, but I am quite happy with the result. This afternoon it was much hotter as forecast and the tyre degradation was maybe a little... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 9th: "Today, we were worth a place somewhere between eighth and twelfth, so ninth on the grid fits in with our current level. Honestly, given the... read more »

Nico Rosberg revealed he sacrificed some qualifying pace to help his race set-up on Saturday at the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Williams read more »

At the tail end of the Formula 1 field, there were smiles for Charles Pic on Saturday as the French rookie out-qualified more experienced Timo Glock for the first time. As the... read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Ferrari read more »

Mark Webber is positive that Red Bull can enjoy its best race so far in 2012, having qualified first and third for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite being beaten on a Saturday by... read more »

Paul Hembery: "We've seen a great job from Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, who demonstrated their ability to get the most out of the tyres by extracting every last bit... read more »

Nico Rosberg, 5th: "In general, I felt very comfortable during qualifying today. However, as we have been focusing on our race pace, there is always a compromise in the... read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Marussia read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Mercedes read more »

Sauber had gone into the qualifying session in a downbeat mood after a less than ideal final practice session on Saturday morning, but the team read the changing conditions... read more »

Force India impressed at Sakhir on Saturday, with Paul di Resta in particularly good form as he reached the top ten shootout. Team-mate Nico Hülkenberg will start 13th... read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Red Bull read more »

Bahrain Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso read more »

Lewis Hamilton reckons F1 is in for a "very interesting" season after momentum swung in the way of Red Bull in Bahrain on Saturday... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 1st: “It feels great and I completely owe this one to the team. It wasn’t an easy start to the season for us and there was a lot of... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 11th: “We had the speed today and we could easily have gone through to the final session with another run, but we thought it was... read more »

Paul di Resta, 10th: “I’m very happy with our qualifying performance today. With our reduced programme yesterday it wasn’t easy getting all the... read more »