A strong weekend in Melbourne came to a disappointing end for the Mercedes AMG today with Nico Rosberg finishing the Australian Grand Prix in 12th place and team-mate Michael... read more »

Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn blamed tyre degradation for the disappointing end to the squad's Australian Grand Prix weekend read more »

Force India experienced a somewhat bizarre start to the 2012 Formula 1 season, with Nico Hülkenberg becoming the first retirement of the year as Paul di Resta... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo, 10th: “That was nice! The ambition at the start of the weekend, as far as qualifying was concerned, was to get into Q3 and read more »

McLaren is likely to introduce its own version of Mercedes' new DRS-operated F-duct, which has caught the attention of several teams in the paddock this weekend read more »

We can come away feeling pretty satisfied with today's performance. Nico has done an outstanding job all weekend while Paul will need to fight hard to move forward in the... read more »

Lotus will protest the results of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, believing Mercedes’ f-duct rear wing system does not comply with the regulations. However,... read more »

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton set the pace during the third and final practice session of the weekend in Melbourne, posting a personal best time of 1:25.681 to eclipse... read more »

Charles Pic says his Marussia team has 'a lot to learn' about its new MR01 chassis, having debuted it competitively in Melbourne on Friday. Despite the... read more »

Paul di Resta is heading into the second day of the Australian Grand Prix weekend with a range of unknowns hanging over his shoulders, having struggled to gather representative... read more »

Paul di Resta believes Force India can progress into the final stage of qualifying at this weekend's Australian Grand Prix read more »

HRT team principal Luis Perez-Sala has admitted there is a real danger his cars will not qualify for the Australian Grand Prix this weekend and that the team may have to target... read more »

Timo Glock: "I think it has been a difficult start to the weekend due to the weather conditions and we had to be a bit read more »

Michael Schumacher enjoyed a 'promising' start to the Australian Grand Prix weekend today - although he added with the weather conditions so mixed in practice he... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen and Romain Grosjean took to the track for the first practice sessions of 2012 today, with variable weather affecting the opening day of the Australian Grand Prix... read more »

"Honestly, it's impossible to give any sort of assessment of the performance of the F2012 and on the prospects for this weekend," admits Pat Fry. read more »

Fernando Alonso is expecting a mixed grid at the first race of the season in Australia this weekend as he believes the field has bunched up over the winter read more »

Fernando Alonso is expecting no miracles from Ferrari on Saturday, predicting the team will be in a similar position to where it finished testing. Friday was a difficult start... read more »

Jenson Button felt the chance to get some running on a wet track in Australian Grand Prix practice was useful even though it could leave the field unprepared for the dry... read more »

There were no reliability issues on the car, so we are really looking forward to the remainder of the weekend. read more »

Michael Schumacher said he was pleased by Mercedes' competitive start to the Australian Grand Prix weekend, but warned against reading too much into the times read more »

Red Bull hoped for an all-dry start to the Australian Grand Prix weekend, having installed several exhaust updates for Friday practice. As a result, the car sounded somewhat... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo believes he has made a good start to his home grand prix weekend after the first track action of the season in Australia on Friday. read more »

Sebastian Vettel is hoping his Red Bull Racing team will be much quicker tomorrow after a slow start to the weekend in Friday practice. read more »

New for this year, AUTOSPORT's grand prix in quotes collects all the press release quotes from the drivers and teams through the race weekend so you now have a one-stop... read more »