Fernando Alonso was upbeat after splitting both McLaren drivers in Valencia this afternoon, with the Spaniard explaining that it was always Ferrari’s realistic target... read more »

Paul di Resta says he is satisfied with his recovery in qualifying after losing nearly all of his practice time on Friday when test driver Nico Hulkenberg crashed his car read more »

Sergio Perez will contest his first F1 qualifying session since crashing out of the one in Monaco after coming through Friday's European GP practice with no ill-effects. read more »

Paul di Resta faces an uphill struggle for the remainder of the European GP weekend after team-mate Nico Hulkenberg crashed his car in Friday free practice. read more »

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES – Ross BRAWN (Mercedes), Mike GASCOYNE (Team Lotus), James KEY (Sauber), Geoff WILLIS (HRT), Franz TOST (Toro Rosso) PRESS CONFERENCEQ: Mike, can... read more »

Merc's Ross Brawn, Lotus' Mike Gascoyne, James Key of Sauber, Geoff Willis of HRT, and Toro Rosso's Franz Tost faced the media in Valencia... read more »

Despite sending his adoring fans home happy by setting the fastest Friday practice time in Valencia, Ferrari star Fernando Alonso is far from willing to count his chickens just... read more »

Lotus Renault GP driver pairing Nick Heidfeld and Vitaly Petrov were encouraged by the pace they demonstrated at Valencia on Friday, with both men occupying top ten positions... read more »

Force India’s Paul di Resta was left to rue a lack of track time at Valencia on Friday, with reserve driver Nico Hülkenberg damaging his car during the early... read more »

Friday's press conference from Valencia with Ross Brawn, Mike Gascoyne, James Key, Geoff Willis and Franz Tost. read more »

Friday's press conference - Europe read more »

Sebastien Buemi: “As planned, I ran just in the afternoon, but all the same we now know more or less what we can expect for read more »

Europe Friday quotes: HRT read more »

Colin Kolles, Hispania Racing Team Principal: “Basically we ran through our programmes for the race setup, we have not made any special qualifying setup, it read more »

Paul Hembery: "It's been a very encouraging start here for the new PZero White medium tyre and the PZero Yellow soft tyre, both in terms read more »

Timo Glock, 20th: "It has been quite a busy Friday, especially this afternoon. We went through the normal programme and everything feels fine so far. read more »

Heikki Kovalainen, 18th: "A pretty straightforward day for me. The car improved throughout both sessions and having got through the whole plan on both tyres read more »

Sergio Perez, 16th: "More than anything I'm happy to be back in the car. Everything went okay, I feel well and I have done a read more »

Adrian Sutil, 11th: "A pretty positive day for me. We had quite a lot of work to get through to evaluate our new aero parts, read more »

Rubens Barrichello, 12th: We've brought a lot of upgrades to Valencia so it was a busy day for the team. The new items still need read more »

Nick Heidfeld, 9th: "It was a good day, I have to say that I had my best long run ever in the afternoon session in read more »

Fernando Alonso, 1st: "Overall, a positive start to this Valencia weekend, my second home race. We got through all our planned programme, working mainly on read more »

Nico Rosberg, 8th: "We had a bit of a tricky morning: it was clear that we had to change some things on the set-up but read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 3rd: "Sometimes you try different things, which is normal on a Friday - there were no secrets from us today. This morning we read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 2nd: "It was very slippery out there today. In P2, the grip was a little lower because the new Prime tyre proved a read more »