Caterham F1 enjoyed a straightforward Friday in preparation for the Japanese GP. It marked the return of Giedo van der Garde to the cockpit, who returned to F1 to complete FP1... read more »

Nico Hulkenberg is staying cautious about Force India's form in the Japanese Grand Prix following a strong start to the weekend on Friday read more »

We've got a lot of data to look at now, but we would expect the performance gap between the two compounds to be in the region of 1.0 - 1.2 seconds. read more »

Read what the teams and drivers had to say after practice for the Japanese Grand Prix read more »

Overall, we've achieved our programme objectives for the day and it's good to see that the new floor fitted to Timo's car for today appears to be performing as... read more »

The Japanese Grand Prix puts the biggest energy loadings through the tyres all year, with the two P Zero compounds that have been nominated for Suzuka – P Zero Silver hard and... read more »

This was a Friday like so many others, in which we worked a lot on the comparison between the two types of tyre Pirelli has brought here, as well as validating some updates and... read more »

Romain Grosjean reckons there is more time to find from his Lotus over the Japanese Grand Prix weekend after setting the sixth fastest time in second practice read more »

That wasn't the smoothest of Fridays for us today. However, we found a baseline set up for qualifying and the race which will be refined in tomorrow morning's free... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen believes he can still deliver a Japanese Grand Prix result that will keep him in the championship hunt, despite a difficult opening day of practice. read more »

Fernando Alonso is not sure how competitive his Ferrari will be at this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix, but said he had a "good feeling" after second practice read more »

We successfully tested a number of new components and established a good base set-up for the remainder of the weekend. read more »

Overall we're pleased with how things went today. The car is working well and the drivers feel comfortable. read more »

Lotus has ruled out using its double-DRS system during the remainder of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend after testing it in practice read more »

A Friday like so many others here in Suzuka, the scene of the first two free practice sessions for the Japanese Grand Prix: Fernando Alonso completed 54 laps at the wheel of... read more »

We spent the morning evaluating and experimenting with a handful of useful new components that we wanted to compare. For FP2, we were conducting set-up experiments across the... read more »

The main aspect we must improve is that we're suffering more understeer than we should and a lot of graining on the front tyres, and that's what we're going to... read more »

The opening day of practice for the Japanese Grand Prix saw the Mercedes AMG Petronas drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg complete 33 laps and 37 laps respectively... read more »

Two weeks after the Singapore Grand Prix, the Williams F1 team came in action today at the Suzuka Circuit for the first two free practice sessions of the Japanese GP. The team... read more »

"It's a challenging venue in terms of balance here, but the car ran well and we tested both tyres," says Webber. "The car's performing, but there are... read more »

It was good to have a trouble free day and to complete the entire programme in relation to the new parts. We had no hic ups or reliability issues. read more »

Fernando Alonso believes it is still too early to judge how strong Ferrari will be in the Japanese Grand Prix following Friday practice read more »

Lewis Hamilton believes Red Bull will be the team to beat in the Japanese Grand Prix. read more »

Jenson Button says McLaren will 'think outside the box' in the Japanese Grand Prix in order to make up for his gearbox-change penalty. read more »

We completed all the programme we had set ourselves for today, which included evaluating a few new parts, as well as comparing different exhaust configurations. read more »