Michael Schumacher and Nick Heidfeld were the big casualties of a torrid end to second qualifying in China. read more »

Bernie Ecclestone isn't currently present in China for the grand prix as he currently resides in Germany for questioning over the alleged payments to German read more »

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel lays down his marker for a third pole of 2011 by setting the pace ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton in final practice in... read more »

Marussia Virgin Racing didn't enjoy a great Friday at China, as they were plagued with reliability issues all through the session. Timo Glock's engine blowup... read more »

Pirelli’s Motorsport Director Paul Hembery: “We’ve been very encouraged by our first day of running in China, which like nearly every one of the... read more »

Timo Glock: “Not a great day. We didn't run much today as we had a lot of technical problems. In the first practice I read more »

Narain Karthikeyan: “Today we tried different set-ups and got in a reasonable amount of running. We tested out our race set-up as well so, read more »

Heikki Kovalainen: "It's good to get through the whole day with no reliability issues and hopefully that sets us up well for the weekend read more »

Jaime Alguersuari: “Even though I only ran this afternoon, we have already spotted several areas where we can improve the car for the rest read more »

Sergio Pérez: “I think we have collected a lot of information today for us to analyse tonight, and this is especially from the long read more »

Adrian Sutil: “The first session was really good; everybody worked well today and I am really happy and could concentrate on the normal Friday read more »

Rubens Barrichello: “We were testing new parts on my car in practice today. They seemed to lose a little bit of performance towards the read more »

Nick Heidfeld: "Today obviously wasn’t what we wanted, after I spun off in the first session and then again in the second which were read more »

Michael Schumacher: “We've had a good working day here during the first outings on the Shanghai track. We have changed our working approach this read more »

Fernando Alonso: "I lost valuable time because of a hydraulic problem, in both sessions, but most of all in the second one. Unfortunately, I read more »

Jenson Button: "This morning was reasonably good and the car was working well it’s a good car to drive. For the afternoon, we read more »

Sebastian Vettel: "We had a good day today, but it’s only Friday and so it’s early in the race weekend. We found a good read more »

TECHNICAL DIRECTORS - Aldo COSTA (Ferrari), James KEY (Sauber), Paddy LOWE (McLaren), Naoki TAKUNAGA (Renault), Geoff WILLIS (HRT). PRESS CONFERENCE Q: A question to read more »

Friday's press conference - China read more »

China Friday quotes: Virgin read more »

Jenson Button admits it's highly unlikely that McLaren will be able to challenge Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel for a podium position in China... read more »

Hispania Racing saw both of its cars finish ahead of Virgin Racing duo Jérôme d’Ambrosio and Timo Glock in China on Friday. With a best effort of 1:42.902, India’s Narain... read more »

A valve problem in his Cosworth engine affected Timo Glock’s running time in China on Friday, with the German seeing Hispania Racing finish ahead of both Marussia Virgin cars... read more »

Nick Heidfeld committed not one, but two driving errors in China on Friday, losing the German crucial setup time ahead of this Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix. After spinning on... read more »

China Friday quotes: HRT read more »