Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Unfortunately for everyone, and especially the spectators, the weather conditions were very poor today with constant rain throughout... read more »

The opening two free practice sessions of the British Grand Prix were affected by torrential rain, at the beginning of a weekend that could be characterised by wet weather... read more »

Mark Webber says F1 teams had to sit out much of the second practice session at Silverstone to save their wet weather tyres read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has blamed a lack of wet weather tyres for limiting running today in practice for the F1 2012 British Grand Prix. read more »

Sebastian Vettel: “If there’s too much standing water on track we can’t go out, as we aquaplane pretty quickly. I think Senna went off and it... read more »

Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery: “With the British summer weather at its best, we could be facing our first full wet weekend from start to... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 8th: “It was wet. It’s a shame we don’t have more wet tyres to be able to get more track time, but if... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen thinks qualifying will go ahead without any issues if the weather is the same on Saturday as it was on Friday, blaming the lack of running during FP1 and FP2 on... read more »

Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber have both apologised to fans for the lack of running during free practice on Friday. Both sessions suffered from heavy rain which resulted in... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa: "This morning we ran in wet conditions and tested everything we wanted to do, so in the second session we didn’t feel the need to take a risk... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen admitted that the situation at Silverstone on Friday was far from ideal for the British fans. Up to 80,000 people descended on Silverstone, causing traffic chaos... read more »

Kamui Kobayashi, 2nd: “In wet conditions our car is quite okay, but it is difficult if not impossible to guess how it would be on a dry track here. However, the... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo: “It looks as though the rain is going to continue for much of the weekend, so today’s running was valuable, even if this afternoon, it was... read more »

Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has said that it will attempt to offer more Wet tyres at Silverstone, should the teams all agree on the idea. Complaints came on Friday as most... read more »

Mark Webber says a lack of full wet tyres played a huge role in him opting not to do any serious running at Silverstone on Friday... read more »

Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery has hit back at claims that the Italian supplier is producing inconsistent tyres which vary in quality at each race. The claims... read more »

Paul Hembery has hit back at claims F1′s championship ‘lottery’ in 2012 could be because Pirelli is supplying tyres with inconsistent quality. The... read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Following our strong showing in Valencia, which unfortunately ultimately ended in disappointment, we head to our home Grand Prix at... read more »

Williams are heading to their home race at Silverstone with high hopes, despite a disappointing European Grand Prix which secured them just a single point. The Grove outfit... read more »

Paul Hembery: “Silverstone is one of the most iconic circuits on the Formula One calendar, precisely because it is so demanding for the drivers, cars and tyres. This... read more »

Pirelli will bring extra tyres to the British Grand Prix in order to test an experimental hard compound during Friday practice read more »

BBC F1’s technical analyst Gary Anderson on why Jenson Button is suffering more than others in coping with the unforgiving new Pirelli tyres. read more »

Pirelli test driver Lucas di Grassi believes teams will find the new experimental hard compound tyres that will be evaluated at Silverstone this weekend a step forward - even... read more »

Dr Helmut Marko suspects there are “serious differences” in the quality of the sets of tyres being supplied this year by Pirelli. Red Bull’s motor... read more »

Pastor Maldonado believes that he has a better understanding of Pirelli's 2012 Formula 1 tyres than he did with last year's rubber read more »