Sebastian Vettel will not blame a member of his Ferrari team for the qualifying error that has left him eighth on the grid at the Japanese Grand Prix.Ferrari opted to start Q3 on intermediate tires after a rain shower at the end of Q2 had prevented drivers from improving their...

Kimi Raikkonen was in a typically restrained mood despite setting the pace in the second practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix and enjoying a 0.5s advantage over Mercedes.As the first driver to set a lap time on supersoft tires during FP1, Raikkonen immediately jumped to the top of the...

Pirelli Motorsport boss Mario Isola believes a one-stop strategy will be the winning move for the first Formula 1 race of 2018 in Melbourne. The Red Bulls, having qualified on red supersoft tires, might be the one team on an alternate strategy."When we nominated the yellow soft, red supersoft and...

Pirelli expects the Formula 1 teams to face a steep learning curve with its new tires during the first half of the 2018 season.The tire manufacturer has made a number of changes to the compounds this year, including making them all a step softer to try and encourage higher levels...

Pirelli has revealed the tire compound line-up for the first and second grands prix of the 2017 Formula 1 season.For Australia, to be held March 24-26 on the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne:Yellow softRed supersoftPurple ultrasoftThese are the tires that must be available (one of them to be used) at...

DRIVERS 1 - Nico ROSBERG (Mercedes) 2 - Daniel RICCIARDO (Red Bull) 3 - Kimi RAIKKONEN (Ferrari)TV UNILATERAL Q: Nico, it all looked fairly in control, a little bit of a glitch at the start of the session with Lewis, but how does that feel for you? Nico ROSBERG: I'm...

Charles Pic - 19th: "We made some changes to the car overnight and the balance was better in FP3. At the start the car felt quite similar to FP1 - it was very much on the nose and it felt like we'd gone a bit too far forward on the...

Paul Hembery: "The teams have quite a lot of data on the medium and supersoft already from Singapore, but this circuit is a completely different proposition. The lateral energy loadings in particular are much higher, which makes the process of reading the wear and degradation rates accurately on differing fuel...