For those who feared a tough qualifying session for Williams, there was no Q1 elimination at Sakhir but the Grove team still experienced its worst Saturday of 2012 so far.... read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull), 2 – Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 3 – Mark WEBBER (Red Bull) TV UNILATERAL... read more »

Jenson Button had no complaints with his P4 in qualifying and in fact was surprised to have beaten Nico Rosberg... read more »

With Michael Schumacher eliminated at the end of Q3, and Nico Rosberg having to settle for fifth place on the grid, it wasn't the qualifying session many had expected for... read more »

A DRS problem was to blame for Michael Schumacher qualifying 18th on the grid at the Bahrain Grand Prix, according to Mercedes read more »

Michael Schumacher, a tip for pole position with many before qualifying at Sakhir, will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from a lowly 17th place. Making up one spot from his... read more »

Post-qualifying press conference - Bahrain read more »

Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber completed the line-up for the post-qualifying press conference in Bahrain... read more »

Mark Gillan, chief operations engineer: "We have had a relatively tough day today with Pastor experiencing a KERs problem in qualifying which forced us to pit his car and... read more »

Charles Pic, 20th: "Not an easy day today, but I am quite happy with the result. This afternoon it was much hotter as forecast and the tyre degradation was maybe a little... read more »

Nico Rosberg revealed he sacrificed some qualifying pace to help his race set-up on Saturday at the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Paul Hembery: "We've seen a great job from Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, who demonstrated their ability to get the most out of the tyres by extracting every last bit... read more »

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 »

Sauber had gone into the qualifying session in a downbeat mood after a less than ideal final practice session on Saturday morning, but the team read the changing conditions... 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 »

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 »

Daniel Ricciardo is focusing on scoring strong points in the Bahrain Grand Prix after qualifying in sixth position. 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 »

Less than a week ago, Toro Rosso found itself effectively using the Chinese Grand Prix as an extended test session. Now in Bahrain, the Italian team is delighted with Daniel... read more »

Pedro de la Rosa hailed his HRT team's progress after putting on his strongest qualifying performance of the season so far in Bahrain read more »

Mercedes remains confident that Michael Schumacher can still have a good Bahrain Grand Prix despite a disastrous qualifying session leaving him 18th on the grid. read more »

Heikki Kovalainen said Caterham always believed it could get into Q2 in Bahrain, after claiming the team's best qualifying result of the 2012 season so far with 16th on... read more »

Jenson Button believes there will be a silver lining to his disappointing Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying performance as he was able to save a set of tyres for the race. read more »