Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix with a comfortable lights-to-flag victory in Melbourne read more »

Michael Schumacher retired from the Australian Grand Prix for safety reasons after sustaining damage in a collision with Jaime Alguersuari on the first lap of the race in... 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 »

HRT has tried to put on a collective brave face after it failed to qualify for the Australian Grand Prix with team boss Colin Kolles insisting it was a "miracle" it... read more »

Rubens Barrichello hopes that his chances of recovering into the points in the Australian Grand Prix are boosted by the fact that he has several sets of brand new tyres left. read more »

Renault boss Eric Boullier says Vitaly Petrov is a new man this year, after praising the Russian for grabbing sixth on the grid for the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Australian Grand Prix photos read more »

F1 will pause before Sunday's Australian GP to observe a minute's silence for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami... read more »

Red Bull world champion Sebastian Vettel starts on pole ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton for the opening race of the 2011 season in Melbourne. read more »

Red Bull Racing's rivals still believe they are in the hunt to topple Australian Grand Prix pole position man Sebastian Vettel in the first race of the season - despite... read more »

Unsurprisingly, FIA stewards have ruled that Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan will not start the Australian GP after failing to get to within 107 per cent of pole... read more »

Ferrari received a nasty wake-up call in qualifying for the F1 2011 curtain-raising Australian Grand Prix, acknowledges Fernando Alonso - but the Spaniard is confident of a... read more »

Not content with qualifying ninth on the grid for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix, Kamui Kobayashi believes sixth spot was in his reach... read more »

Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg have escaped grid penalties despite being found guilty of impeding other cars during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Jerome D'Ambrosio admitted he is very happy to be able to race in the Australian Grand Prix after making the grid in his first outing. read more »

Mercedes is closer to the pace than its pace in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix suggests, according to Nico Rosberg. read more »

Sebastian Vettel stormed to pole position for this weekends Australian Grand Prix by almost eight tenths over McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, but how? Rumours coming out of read more »

Former Red Bull driver turned television commenter David Coulthard has sprung to the defence of the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Tonio Liuzzi has hailed his Hispania Racing team for the "amazing" job it has done to get its cars running during the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber face the press after Saturday's Australian GP qualifying... read more »

Pirelli looks back at today's qualifying session  read more »

Sauber was delighted with the performance of both Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez in Australian GP qualifying, although the drivers felt more was possible. 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 »

The FIA have refused to allow HRT to race in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after both cars recorded times outside the 107% qualifying time. read more »