Welcome to live text commentary for the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix qualifying session from the Suzuka circuit. You can follow the commentary via this page, our read more »

Adrian Sutil has said he is disappointed not to have reached Q3 during qualifying for the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix. “Overall I think today’s qualifying session went... read more »

Pirelli and Ferrari have both called on the FIA to take action following a session in which four drivers failed to post a time. read more »

Fourth and fifth places on the starting grid for the Japanese Grand Prix, for Scuderia Ferrari’s pair of 150º Italias with Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso respectively. That... read more »

Toro Rosso have had a strange qualifying session which could have resulted with having both cars higher up on the grid. The team however decided it would be better to do just a... read more »

Ferrari claimed fourth and fifth positions for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, but team principal Stefano Domenicali was unhappy with a session that saw rival teams opt not... read more »

Bruno Senna has praised his team for repairing his car in time for the first session of qualifying after he crashed out in final practice at the Japanese Grand Prix read more »

Kamui Kobayashi was left in high spirits following Saturday's qualifying session at Suzuka, with the Japanese driver making it through to Q3 on home soil. Having failed... read more »

Michael Schumacher, 7th: "It was a tricky ending to my qualifying session today, but at least we have saved a set of tyres for the read more »

Felipe Massa took a small amount of satisfaction from this afternoon’s qualifying session at Suzuka, admitting that outpacing Red Bull’s Mark Webber was a... read more »

Ferrari man Fernando Alonso says his grid position for Sunday afternoon’s Japanese Grand Prix was somewhat expected, with the session being predominantly controlled... read more »

Felipe Massa, 4th: "It was a difficult qualifying session but at least we managed to keep one of the four best cars behind us. It's never read more »

Adrian Sutil, 11th: "Overall I think today's qualifying session went pretty well. I was a little bit disappointed to miss Q3 because we were not too read more »

Sebastian Vettel claimed his 12th pole position of the 2011 season ahead of Jenson Button, following a strange qualifying session dominated by tyre conservation issues. read more »

Toro Rosso says it deliberately prioritised its race plans over qualifying at Suzuka - but still had regrets over its handling of the session after seeing its cars consigned to... read more »

Full times from today's qualifying session for the Japanese Grand Prix. read more »

Lewis Hamilton, despite not admitting an error after Japanese Grand Prix qualifying, has admitted that he lost an opportunity to seize pole position. Since the end of the... read more »

Welcome to live text commentary for the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix qualifying session from the Suzuka circuit. You can follow the commentary via this page, our read more »

Jenson Button has so far had the perfect weekend having topped the times in every session so far. The McLaren driver set a best time read more »

Jenson Button set the fastest time for the third practice session in a row at the Japanese Grand Prix, with a lap over half a second clear of the rest of the field read more »

Full times from today's final free practice session for the Japanese GP. read more »

Jenson Button claimed the practice hat-trick at Suzuka on Saturday morning when he topped a shortened practice session.... read more »

Jenson Button completed a clean sweep of fastest practice times as he led the way in the final session before qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka read more »

The third practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix starts at 0300 BST, with qualifying to follow at 0600 BST. read more »

Timo Glock, 19th: "It wasn't a trouble-free first session as I had a water leak and I wasn't able to run much. This cost us a read more »