Only days before Marussia’s new car, the MR01, was set to make its first track appearance of 2012, it has been revealed that it has failed its final mandatory FIA crash test.... read more »

Marussia Racing will not be present with its new car at the final F1 group test of the 2012 pre-season after failing the complete mandatory crash testing. read more »

Marussia has announced that it has failed the FIA's mandatory crash test and will therefore miss this week's final pre-season test at Barcelona. read more »

The Marussia Formula 1 Team has been forced to pull out of this week's final pre-season test at the Circuit de Catalunya, with the squad's new challenger having... read more »

Marussia has confirmed it will not participate in the final pre-season test, after its 2012 chassis failed one of the mandatory FIA crash tests. The team read more »

Fernando Alonso says he and Ferrari remain relaxed about their pre-season preparations - as he insists it is far too early to get excited or depressed about its progress. read more »

McLaren racked up the most kilometres at the second of three pre-season Formula 1 test sessions last week. The mammoth efforts of Maldonado, Senna and Bottas put Williams... read more »

One of the key areas for Williams was low-speed corners, as the second of three Formula 1 pre-season tests was staged in Barcelona last week. Although the new FW34 may be... read more »

The HRT team will finally get its pre-season testing programme up and running in Barcelona this week after the new car was reported to have passed the mandatory crash tests read more »

Nico Rosberg thinks that winning races in 2012 is not out of the question if the steps made in pre season testing can be converted into race pace on the track read more »

The HRT F1 team have passed all of their mandatory FIA crash tests after failing  two previously. The team were subsequently unable to take their new car, the F112 to... read more »

HRT's F112 has finally passed all necessary crash tests, but its debut at the third and final pre-season test in Barcelona next week remains in read more »

Ferrari and Red Bull to run a different test schedule for final pre-season test in Spain read more »

Combined times from the second pre-season test of the year. held at Catalunya in Spain read more »

Kamui Kobayashi plays down his quickest time during pre-season testing in Barcelona read more »

Williams enjoys a solid week of running in Barcelona to cap an 'excellent' start to pre-season testing read more »

Martin Whitmarsh says he feels the 2012 F1 season is too close to call as it stands based on the performance of rival teams in pre-season testing read more »

Chief operations engineer Mark Gillan says Williams has enjoyed "an excellent couple of weeks" during pre-season testing read more »

Martin Whitmarsh reckons if anything can be read into pre-season performances it is that no team has emerged as the dominant force... read more »

Check out the very best images from the second pre-season test from Barcelona, days one to four. If you're not redirected within 5 seconds, click here. read more »

Martin Whitmarsh admits it's encouraging for McLaren that one team has not emerged as dominant during pre-season testing so far read more »

Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi posts the fastest time of the day, indeed the week, as the first of two pre-season tests at the Circuit de Catalunya comes to a close. read more »

Marussia sees its pre-season test in Barcelona ended by a suspension issue on the MVR-02 read more »

Marussia's John Booth insists his outfit can't get "too downhearted" after their pre-season test in Barcelona came to a premature end... read more »

Mark Webber has singled out McLaren as Red Bull's closest rivals after the conclusion of the second pre-season test read more »