We hoped the rain might play into our hands, but both cars struggled under braking and didn't really find the rhythm in the wet conditions. read more »

Mercedes executive director (business) Toto Wolff said Lewis Hamilton was "in a league of his own" during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix read more »

To put it in simple terms, we performed poorly in qualifying today. We know our car is lacking in overall performance, but most notably it lacks sufficient downforce. read more »

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton admits he starts Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix as strong favourite after qualifying on pole position. read more »

F1: Chinese GP: Qualifying notes - Red Bull read more »

To not be penalised by a wet qualifying shows that the work we have done has improved the handling of the car. read more »

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso qualified 5th for the Chinese Grand Prix while Kimi Raikkonen will start from 11th. Alonso and his team though expected to enjoy a better... read more »

Jenson Button admits he is desperately hoping for a dry Chinese Grand Prix after McLaren struggled in the wet qualifying session read more »

Felipe Massa sees no reason why Williams cannot be mixing it with F1 big guns Red Bull and Ferrari in the Chinese Grand Prix. read more »

It was an exceptional performance from Lewis; he was in a league of his own today. read more »

It was a very mixed qualifying. Obviously we're very sorry to see Pastor not taking part, and we're sorry to him and all his crew. read more »

Wet weather was the story of the day in Shanghai as Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez qualified in eighth and sixteenth places respectively for tomorrow's Chinese Grand... read more »

The Chinese Grand Prix race stewards have cleared Lotus's Pastor Maldonado to start the race from the pitlane after the Venezuelan failed to participate in qualifying.... read more »

Red Bull suffered a fuel-flow sensor failure on Sebastian Vettel's car during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT can reveal read more »

Today's two sessions saw mixed fortunes for the drivers, with Max very happy with his performance in FP3 and Jules in qualifying. read more »

Nico Hülkenberg says he is happy to be starting the Chinese Grand Prix from within the top ten despite struggling with the balance of his Force India VJM07 during qualifying. read more »

This qualifying showed the technical measures we took for this race had a positive effect and point to the right direction. read more »

The performance of our intermediate tyre was clearly shown by Valtteri Bottas, who reached 316kph - that's 196mph - on the straight in conditions that were very wet indeed. read more »

Red Bull Racing will see its cars start tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix from second and third on the grid as Daniel Ricciardo set the second best time in qualifying... read more »

Williams' Felipe Massa qualified sixth and Valtteri Bottas seventh for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix in a rain affected session. Both cars showed improved... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen said he was having some strange problems shifting both up and down through the gears during qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix read more »

The team did a great job with the timing and everything went very smoothly in conditions where it could all go very wrong. read more »

Lewis Hamilton took pole position in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix this afternoon, with Nico Rosberg fourth after a challenging, wet qualifying session. read more »

We are ahead of both Marussias and feel we are well prepared to take the fight to them, and other cars ahead, in the race tomorrow. read more »

The rainy qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai left the two Sauber F1 Team drivers, Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez, with mixed feelings. While Sutil put in a... read more »