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 »

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, 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 »

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 »

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 »

Pedro de la Rosa: "I’m very happy to be honest. We come from not qualifying in Australia not long ago, so when I saw the times we posted I was glad. For us... read more »

Less than a week ago, Toro Rosso found itself effectively using the Chinese Grand Prix as an extended test session. Now in Bahrain, the Italian team is delighted with Daniel... read more »

Mercedes remains confident that Michael Schumacher can still have a good Bahrain Grand Prix despite a disastrous qualifying session leaving him 18th on the grid. read more »

Daniel Ricciardo says he got "better and better" in each session as he worked his way to a career-high P6 grid slot for Sunday's Bahrain GP... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says he and Mark Webber owe their strong qualifying performance to the hard work put in by the Red Bull team. The German, who dominated Saturday in 2011 by... read more »

Lewis Hamilton said his qualifying session at the Bahrain Grand Prix was one of his best this season, despite missing out on pole position read more »

Full times from today's qualifying session for the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. read more »

Heikki Kovalainen, 16th: “That was an excellent qualifying session for our team. It's a real bonus for us getting into Q2 but we'd already seen this morning... read more »

Nico Rosberg has ended up fastest once again in Bahrain during the final practice session for this weekends Bahrain Grand Prix, finishing just over a tenth ahead of reigning... read more »

Sebastian Vettel upset the formbook by claiming his first pole position of 2012 in a topsy-turvy qualifying session at the Bahrain GP. read more »

Force India on Friday will run a shortened second practice session in Bahrain. The BBC reports that staff members, some of whom were caught up in a Molotov cocktail attack... read more »

Force India might skip Friday's second practice session in Bahrain. Two of the Silverstone based team's staff members returned to the UK earlier this week after a... read more »

Nico Rosberg remained at the top of the timesheets during the final practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix, but failed to match his fastest time from Friday practice read more »

Nico Rosberg was fastest again in the final free practice session ahead of the Bahrain qualifying session. Sebastian Vettel went second fastest with the second Red Bull of Mark... read more »

Full times from today's final free practice session for the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. read more »

Nico Rosberg looks best prepared to secure his second win of the season and indeed his career after ending the final practice session quickest. The Mercedes driver managed a... read more »

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg is fastest ahead of Sebastian Vettel in the third practice session of the Bahrain GP. read more »

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg quickest in final practice session at Sakhir, ahead of Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Schumacher and Button. read more »