Lewis Hamilton leads the way in opening session at Shanghai, ahead of Mercedes, Sauber and Red Bull duos, as damp and greasy track compromises teams' programmes. read more »

Both Toro Rosso drivers make their debut at Malaysia, and as such it is the first time they can 'enjoy' the heat and humidity at Sepang. Nonetheless, both... read more »

Valterri Bottas will replace Bruno Senna whenever he gets the chance to run in FP1 this season. read more »

Lewis Hamilton failed to improve his FP1 time but remained out of reach of the field in Malaysia. read more »

Lewis Hamilton continued McLaren's good form after topping the first practice session for the Malaysian Grand Prix by over half a second. Sebastian Vettel came in read more »

Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time of opening practice as F1 moves on to the Malaysian Grand Prix. read more »

McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton has ended FP1 fastest in Malaysia ahead of reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel, with the heat causing high amounts of tyre wear up and down... read more »

Hamilton quickest in Malaysia FP1 read more »

Uneventful session sees Lewis Hamilton head Vettel, Rosberg, Schumacher, Grosjean and Webber at Sepang. read more »

HRT continued their struggle into the start of the season, as the team just nearly managed to get Pedro De La Rosa's car ready in time for FP2, after missing FP1. A... read more »

During the break between FP1 and FP2, the Albert Park circuit was doused in a tropical storm as heavy rain lashed down on the track. This caused a very wet start to proceedings... read more »

Michael Schumacher went two better than his FP1 position to pip Nico Hulkenberg to the quickest time in second practice just as the checkered flag read more »

Jenson Button led the first practice session in Australia on Friday giving McLaren a confidence boost ahead of the season opening race. The 2009 world champion read more »

Jenson Button tops the timesheets from Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher in FP1 at Melbourne, as damp track compromises first half of session. read more »

Jenson Button has put in the quickest time of the season opening practice session in Albert Park, with his teammate Lewis Hamilton in second place to make it a great start for... read more »

HRT has won its race against the clock to get Pedro de la Rosa's car ready for first practice. read more »

Alexander Rossi has today been confirmed as Caterham F1 Team’s Test Driver, joining Race Drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov, and Reserve Driver Giedo van der Garde in... read more »

Alexander Rossi has today been confirmed as Caterham F1 Team’s Test Driver, joining Race Drivers Heikki Kovalainen and Vitaly Petrov, and Reserve Driver Giedo van der Garde in... read more »

Caterham F1 Team has today confirmed that Dutch driver Giedo van der Garde will be the team's official Reserve Driver in 2012. Giedo will participate in the pre-season... read more »

Caterham F1 Team has today confirmed that Dutch driver Giedo van der Garde will be the team’s official Reserve Driver in 2012. Giedo will participate in the... read more »

Vitaly Petrov felt that he actually benefited from being on the pit wall while Romain Grosjean drove his car during FP1 in Brazil read more »

Timo Glock, 22nd: "I had quite a normal FP1 and FP2 today. I struggled a bit with the tyres; their behaviour was a bit difficult read more »

Jan Charouz, 24th (FP1): “It was fantastic, just to be on the track with people like Schumacher, Vettel and Alonso is incredible. It’s a bit read more »

Jean-Eric Vergne, 18th (FP1): “I have enjoyed the brief time spent driving Friday mornings for Scuderia Toro Rosso. The main purpose has been to give read more »

Mark Webber topped the times as the first practice session came to an end in Brazil, but only just ahead of McLaren's Jenson Button. Webber's best read more »