Mercedes felt a lack of affinity with the soft tyre masked its pace in Abu Dhabi qualifying today, as Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg took eighth and ninth on the grid read more »

Both Renault drivers have made a difficult start to the Abu Dhabi GP weekend as they are suffering with considerable rear tyre degradation. Nonetheless, both cars performed... read more »

Williams had a fairly normal Friday at Abu Dhabi, but the balance of the car is still far from perfect. Rubens also endured an engine problem in FP1, but the planned schedule... read more »

Robert Kubica admits that he and Renault suffered from tyre degradation problems on Formula 1’s return to Abu Dhabi. Despite the issues, the Pole still managed top five times... read more »

Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button will not be testing Pirelli's 2011 tyres in Abu Dhabi late next week read more »

Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will both miss next week's Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi, with McLaren the only frontrunning team that will not use a current race driver... read more »

Pirelli completed two days of wet running this week at Paul Ricard in the south of France, with Pedro de la Rosa again in action for the Italian tyre manufacturer as it gears... read more »

Brazilian GP: Driver Tyre Strategies read more »

Kamui Kobayashi scored one point in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos. The Japanese driver was on a different tyre strategy to most of the field and came tenth... read more »

A frustrated Felipe Massa is left ruing grip and tyre temperature woes post-qualifying at Interlagos - but promises to put on a show for the partisan Brazilian public come race... read more »

Bruno Senna was left confused by his team’s decision not to make a tyre change in Q1 qualifying at Interlagos – with hindsight, a wrong call which left the Brazilian a... read more »

Mercedes' Michael Schumacher felt he could have qualified higher than eighth at the Brazilian Grand Prix, but lost tyre temperature making way for traffic ahead of his... read more »

Fernando Alonso is relying on tyre strategy to limit the damage to his narrow championship lead at tomorrow's Brazilian Grand Prix read more »

After FP3 took place in difficult conditions, with an unpredictable track that was drying slowly, the weather conditions remained changeable with rain on and off. The... read more »

Formula 1's new tyre supplier Pirelli is urging drivers and teams to buy into an aggressive choice of rubber for next year to improve the show by not hitting out at any... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa has said that he will wait no longer than the end of November before declaring his plans ahead of the 2011 season. At present, the Barcelona driver is... read more »

Bridgestone's super soft tyre took Sebastian Vettel to the fastest lap time on the first day of running for the Brazilian Grand Prix. read more »

Today's running was a normal Friday for Williams as the team put in some race setup work and aero testing. FP2 was mainly about tyre testing, but as the team is... read more »

The atmospheric Interlagos track in the heart of megalopolis Sao Paulo was the setting for the opening day of practice for round 18 of the FIA Formula One World Championship,... read more »

Jaime Alguersuari was a chief sufferer of grip issues in Brazil on Friday, with the Spanish Toro Rosso driver having endured tyre graining, understeer and oversheet across the... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa has completed over 1000 kilometres of Pirelli tyre testing at the Paul Ricard circuit this week and is happy with the performance of the 2011 tyre read more »

Korean GP: Driver Tyre Strategies read more »

Under pressure Tonio Liuzzi was left lamenting severe tyre graining after qualifying a disappointing 18th on the grid for the inaugural Korean Grand Prix read more »

Tyre graining was Vitantonio Liuzzi’s reason for being eliminated in Q1 qualifying ahead of Sunday’s Korean Grand Prix. Although the Italian was looking to improve again... read more »

Tonio Liuzzi is predicting an interesting Korean Grand Prix after he struggled with the wear of his tyres during qualifying. read more »