Sebastian Vettel today won the opening race of the season in Melbourne, Australia, in a controlled and imposing manner. The German was blindingly quick from start to finish,... read more »

Sebastian Vettel started his title defence with an empathetic victory in Australia, easily heads and shoulders above the rest... read more »

Sebastian Vettel opened his title defence with a comfortable victory in an Australian Grand Prix that proved intriguing, but not did deliver the level of incident predicted... read more »

Sebastian Vettel has admitted that the key to repeating his championship success is to rack up finishes - something he's not yet managed in Australia. read more »

6.45am Hello and welcome to Forumula1.com’s live coverage of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia. The drivers have just observed a minute’s... read more »

Nick Heidfeld thinks that the problems of traffic in Q1 could become a major worry throughout 2011, after a mix-up with backmarkers put him out of qualifying early on in Australia. read more »

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has admitted that he is as surprised as everyone else about the strong form his team's new RB7 has shown in Australia read more »

The HRT team is already looking ahead to the Malaysian Grand Prix after missing the reinstated 107 per cent qualifying cut in Australia. read more »

Colin Kolles, Hispania Racing Team Principal: "In the end it just couldn’t be, still I’m incredibly proud of my whole team. Our drivers produced the read more »

Australia Saturday quotes: HRT read more »

Australia Saturday quotes: Pirelli read more »

McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton is promising Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel "the race of his life" in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Hispania will not take part in the Australian GP after race stewards denied their request to be allowed to race due to 'exceptional circumstances'... read more »

Q. Sebastian, a totally dominant performance. Half-a-second faster than last year's pole position and you didn't even use the KERS button. You must feel on read more »

Paul di Resta will make his grand prix debut from 14th on the grid in Australia, whle his team-mate regrets a flying lap that got away... read more »

Paul Hembery, Pirelli’s Motorsport Director: “We've had a thrilling qualifying session and set the quickest lap ever seen here, which has... read more »

Sixth place for Australia 2011 marks a career-best qualifying position for Vitaly Petrov, who improves on his previous seventh from Hungary last year. Now in his second season,... read more »

Pastor Maldonado (15th): I made it through Q1 fine and everything was going well. On the first set of tyres in Q2, I had two read more »

Australia Saturday quotes: Williams read more »

Nico Rosberg (7th): "I'm disappointed as when I went to bed last night, I was hopeful of a good qualifying performance. In the morning, a read more »

Fernando Alonso (5th): "Clearly, we cannot be happy with this result, but we must not immediately make a drama out of it. We definitely did read more »

Kamui Kobayashi (8th): “Overall performance wise we are not too bad and now we see what we have done in the winter was okay. Of course read more »

Adrian Sutil (16th): During qualifying itself our speed was ok and better than expected. On my flying lap in Q2 I was only a few hundred read more »

Vitaly Petrov (6th): “After all the hard work during a very tough winter for the whole team, it feels great to come here and qualify read more »

Lewis Hamilton (2nd): “I was really happy with my lap today. The car felt fantastic, and I owe it all to the guys back at the read more »