This is the starting grid for the F1 Australian Grand Prix. read more »

The Australian Grand Prix has a long tradition that pre-dates its arrival on the Formula 1 schedule as a fully-fledged world championship round in 1985. Indeed, Lewis... read more »

A one-stopper remains the optimal strategy, with medium-hard being theoretically fastest and soft-hard slightly slower. read more »

Today's qualifying was very close and unfortunately, things did not go to plan for us. read more »

Once again, the sessions were tight with several teams completing similar lap times. This was good for Alex as he was able to just beat Gasly and Hulkenburg to take a very... read more »

It's hugely disappointing for Checo that he's not up there with Max. We suspect an engine setting issue contributed to a lockup that he had on his first lap in... read more »

Max Verstappen's scathing criticism of sprint races has continued at the Australian Grand Prix, with the Red Bull driver saying the format goes against "the DNA of... read more »

Seeing Red Bull lead the way with Max Verstappen assuming pole position for the Australian Grand Prix was no suprise. But closely behind him, Mercedes shrugged off their... read more »

George Russell was torn between realism and ambition after securing Mercedes' first front-row qualifying result of the season at the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Stewards had to manually approve Sergio Perez as a race contestant for the Australian Grand Prix after he failed to set a qualifying time - and they have now done so, as was... read more »

The reality is that we don't have enough underlying performance on the car and that we have a lot of work ahead to improve that. read more »

We're happy with how today went. We needed a little bit of happiness and at least for Saturday, we've got some of that. read more »

We definitely had the pace today to have both cars in Q3, so it's disappointing not to have achieved that with Esteban out in Q2. read more »

We head into tomorrow's race feeling confident with our race pace and ready to fight once again. read more »

There is still a lot of work to improve the car, but we can see that the floor update we brought to this event has delivered a step in aero performance broadly in line with our... read more »

Tomorrow we start P10 and P14 and everything seems to be going to plan. The mission is to get points. read more »

Our indications from practice and the evaluation of the upgrades were rather positive, so it's certainly disappointing to have both cars out in Q1. read more »

The reigning world champion saw off both Mercedes drivers to take pole, while Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez skated off track into the gravel in Q1, leaving him to qualify... read more »

He may have endured a disappointing qualifying session at his maiden Australian Grand Prix but Oscar Piastri is already impressing those at McLaren, including teammate Lando... read more »

Russell ended up just 0.236s behind Verstappen in Q3 at Albert Park, with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton third in the sister Mercedes, a somewhat surprise result for the Black... read more »

George Russell declared himself "a little disappointed" to miss out on pole position for the Australian Grand Prix. read more »

Fernando Alonso claims he was not surprised by the speed of the Mercedes cars in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton wound up second and... read more »

Alex Albon praised Williams’ year-on-year progress and outlined the team is now “in a proper fight” after qualifying in eighth place for Formula 1’s Australian Grand Prix.... read more »

The dominant winner in Melbourne last season, Leclerc will line up for the race in seventh after lapping 0.637s off the pace of polesitter Max Verstappen, while Sainz will... read more »

Max Verstappen has denied feeling concerned over Red Bull's reliability after reporting various issues during qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix. read more »