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 »

Mercedes GP has revealed that it will not be taking its 2012 challenger to the opening winter test next year, instead opting to wait until the following event at the Circuit de... read more »

Nico Rosberg has revealed that his final Q3 outlap was ‘a little too slow’, leading to a less-than-optimum final flying effort. The German had to settle for... read more »

Paul di Resta said he was lucky that Sebastien Buemi retired from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix because his "was not the optimum strategy" as he one-stopped to ninth place read more »

Paul di Resta says his decision not to run in Q3 will give him an "optimum strategy" to score points in tomorrow's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. read more »

Nico Rosberg, 7th: "The optimum today would have been sixth place but it didn't quite work out for us this weekend. I was struggling with read more »

A less than 'optimum' performance prevented Sebastian Vettel from winning the F1 2011 British Grand Prix - although team orders did help ensure he took second. read more »

Jenson Button finished fourth in the F1 2010 Japanese Grand Prix today and he reckoned that was the optimum result given the pace of the Red Bulls and Fernando Alonso's... read more »