Ferrari has moved to overcome the tyre issues that hurt its form last season by signing former Bridgestone Formula 1 chief Hirohide Hamashima to work in its technical department. read more »

Scuderia Ferrari is continuing the restructure of its technical department, and has now hired Hirohide Hamashima, Bridgestone's former head of tyre development. He... read more »

Ferrari have hired former director of Bridgestone's tyre development, Hirohide Hamashima, to ensure their 2011 tyre worries are a thing of the past. The outfit failed read more »

In a canny move, Ferrari has recruited Hirohide Hamashima, former head of tyre development at Bridgestone. read more »

Ferrari has signed Hirohide Hamashima, the former director of Bridgestone's tyre development, to head up its department dealing with the interaction between car and tyres read more »

Jan.9 (GMM) Mercedes has reportedly poached a key member of Ferrari's technical team. Media reports claim Marco Fainello has been enticed from his role at the head of... read more »

Eddie Cheever, America's most experienced Grand Prix driver, says his home country needs an F1 driver if future events in Austin and New Jersey are to survive. The... read more »

Nico Hulkenberg admits coming to grips with the Pirelli tyres in qualifying and race conditions will be his biggest challenges next season... read more »

Mark Webber is confident the tyre problems which dogged him at the start of this season won't be an issue during 2012... read more »

Jenson Button, 3rd: “I couldn’t really get the soft tyre working around here – we had massive degradation on each set – and that prompted read more »

Jenson Button said that his lack of pace on the soft tyre prevented him from finishing higher than third in the British Grand Prix read more »

Toro Rosso had a straightforward race at the Brazilian GP, but simply were not competitive enough to have a chance for points. Both Alguersuari and Buemi found it a difficult... read more »

Jaime Alguersuari, 11th: “This was a difficult race right from the start, with low grip in the first stint on the softer tyre, especially in read more »

Jenson Button said that McLaren's decision to switch him onto medium tyres midway through the Brazilian Grand Prix was instrumental in his podium finish read more »

In front of a home crowd, Rubens Barrichello delivered one of the strongest qualifying laps of his season at Interlagos today. Making it through Q1, Rubens set his fastest lap... read more »

Nico Rosberg said he was unable to match his time from the second part of qualifying at Interlagos because he didn't get his tyres up to temperature in Q3 read more »

Lewis Hamilton tops the times on day one at Interlagos but McLaren team-mate Jenson Button faces issues with Pirelli's option tyre read more »

Adrian Sutil, 9th: "It was quite a good afternoon session. I concentrated on evaluating the different tyre compounds and getting a good balance with the read more »

"We are struggling on the medium compound as shown by both Bruno and Vitaly going around 1.5 to 2 seconds quicker on the soft tyre," admits Alan Permane. read more »

"Nico, Paul and Adrian ran a variety of tests, mostly looking at set-up," says Dominic Harlow. "We also had a chance to try a development Pirelli tyre, which was... read more »

"Jenson wasn't quite able to extract the full potential from the option tyre," admits Martin Whitmarsh. "But we're confident that we can make the... read more »

Jenson Button admitted he struggled to get any speed out of the softer Pirelli tyre in Brazilian Grand Prix practice - but is generally confident in his McLaren's pace... read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: We completed a full day's programme in preparation for both qualifying and the race, testing the three different tyre compounds read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 1st: “The car felt really good today– on both high and low fuel. And degradation on the new Option tyre seems pretty acceptable; I read more »

Timo Glock was left to rue consistent tyre issues throughout practice for this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, describing the behaviour of the Pirelli rubber on offer... read more »