In hot conditions at the Valencia Street Circuit, Nick secured a position in the top 10 and will start from 9th. Vitaly Petrov just missed out on Q3, ending his session in P11.... read more »

Williams had a disappointing qualifying session as beforehand they believed they could make it into Q3. Unfortunately Rubens was unable to by a little margin while Pastor... read more »

The best pictures from final practice session and qualifying in Valencia read more »

Narain Karthikeyan, 23rd: "It was a difficult session. I just didn't catch up the time lost on the track yesterday with the gearbox issue. Braking read more »

Nico Rosberg believes Mercedes GP has the potential to challenge for a strong points haul in Valencia on Sunday, with the German driver eager to make good use of the extra... read more »

Sebastien Buemi, 17th: “I had a tough time in Q2. In the first session, I had a very good lap, lying P10 so everything was read more »

Sam Michael, Technical Director: We carried out further aero tests on the exhaust and front wing during this morning’s practise session. After reviewing the read more »

Sebastian Vettel insisted there was too much talk about how the rule changes would affect Red Bull's performance, after the team dominated yet another qualifying session. read more »

Full times from today's qualifying session for the 2011 Grand Prix of Europe. 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 »

Full times from today's sole free practice session for the Grand Prix of Europe. 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 »

Sebastian Vettel set the pace in the final free practice session for the European Grand Prix in Valencia as things began to get serious on the dusty track read more »

Despite the new rules, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel tops the timesheets in final practice, ahead of Alonso, Massa, Webber, Button and Rosberg. 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 »

Nick Heidfeld, 9th: "It was a good day, I have to say that I had my best long run ever in the afternoon session in read more »

Toro Rosso continue to analyse Jaime Alguersuari’s car, which was rooted to the garage for the duration of the second free practice session in Valencia. Although... read more »

Having delighted his home fans by topping the second practice session in Valencia, Fernando Alonso says there are several reasons to be positive about the Scuderia's... read more »

In front of his home crowd, Scuderia Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso topped the second free practice session of the European Grand Prix weekend at Valencia. The Spaniard was... 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 »

Jamie Alguersuari is confident that the problems that prevented him from taking part in the second free practice session for the European Grand Prix will not be a major setback... read more »

Full times from today's second free practice session for the 2011 Grand Prix of Europe read more »

Michael Schumacher believes Mercedes has no chance of scoring a rostrum result at this weekend’s European Grand Prix, despite finishing Friday’s second... 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 »