Nico Rosberg, 5th: "In general, I felt very comfortable during qualifying today. However, as we have been focusing on our race pace, there is always a compromise in the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 1st: “It feels great and I completely owe this one to the team. It wasn’t an easy start to the season for us and there was a lot of... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 11th: “We had the speed today and we could easily have gone through to the final session with another run, but we thought it was... read more »

Paul di Resta, 10th: “I’m very happy with our qualifying performance today. With our reduced programme yesterday it wasn’t easy getting all the... read more »

Sergio Pérez, 8th: “Today was a very good qualifying and another great effort by the team. The result is a lot better than we expected after free practice.... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa: "I’m very happy to be honest. We come from not qualifying in Australia not long ago, so when I saw the times we posted I was glad. For us... read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 2nd: “I’m very happy with how qualifying went and the job the team has done so far this weekend. I’ve put the car on the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says he and Mark Webber owe their strong qualifying performance to the hard work put in by the Red Bull team. The German, who dominated Saturday in 2011 by... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen will start only 11th at Sakhir on Sunday, with the Finn having been knocked out of Q2 qualifying when team-mate Romain Grosjean improved his... read more »

Nico Rosberg looks best prepared to secure his second win of the season and indeed his career after ending the final practice session quickest. The Mercedes driver managed a... read more »

Lotus technical director James Allison has warned against reading too much into his cars' lap times during free practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Kamui Kobayashi, 7th: "Technically we had no incidents but we are struggling on tyre temperatures. The lap times on the soft tyres in the short read more »

Michael Schumacher declared himself pleased with the start to the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend but said his fast lap in second practice was ruined by traffic read more »

With Nico Rosberg scoring his maiden career win in Shanghai, we look back at the events that defined his stunning weekend in China - at the speed of the Mercedes F1 W03 and at... read more »

John Booth claims Marussia has made up one and a half seconds in average lap time since the start of the 2012 Formula 1 campaign in Australia. The Anglo-Russian team, which... read more »

Red Bull was overseeing a damage limitation exercise in China, managing to recover to fourth and fifth positions after what was, for Sebastian Vettel, a disastrous start to the... read more »

Nico Hulkenberg looks ahead to the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix and picks out the main challenges of the lap. read more »

Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel felt he made a 'good recovery' today in the Chinese Grand Prix, the third round in the 2012 F1 World Championship. read more »

Nico Rosberg took a commanding victory at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today. Starting from pole position, he took the chequered flag with a 20s margin over the second... read more »

Both Red Bull drivers had a somewhat equal race as they faced an uphill battle throughout the race after imperfect starts for both drivers. Nonetheless, Mark Webber finished... read more »

Ultimately from where we started, and where we were on the first lap, we faced some difficult strategic decisions. read more »

Qualifying statistics This was Nico Rosberg’s first ever pole position. Although he was the youngest ever driver to set a fastest race lap, aged 20 at the 2006 Bahrain Grand... read more »

That was one of our most competitive races since we joined F1. There were no safety cars and yet we were incredibly close to finishing on the same lap as the leader. read more »

HRT experienced another step forward as they were able to get both cars to the finish of the 56 lap Chinese Grand Prix. Even more pleasing however was the team's... read more »

Sebastian Vettel rose by ten places to finish fifth in China on Sunday, capitalising from 15th place on Lap 1 to fifth at the finish. However, the World Champion was running... read more »