Nico Rosberg accepts his fifth placed finish in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix was the best he could have hoped for, especially after his dismal opening lap... read more »

Both Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne were disappointed after qualifying today. While the team had hoped to get a car into Q3, only one made it into Q2. The team will look... read more »

Lotus line up fourth and tenth in China, with Kimi Räikkönen leading the charge and Romain Grosjean having decided to abort his final run in Q3. Despite being... read more »

Caterham have brought a new floor to China, and the team had hoped to get good mileage in to gather data on its on-track performance. The weather conditions however partly... read more »

Mercedes AMG drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg finished the rain-affected Malaysian Grand Prix in 10th and 13th places respectively today. Not the result the team... read more »

Jenson Button was delighted to have sealed a second consecutive McLaren front row lock-out in Malaysia, but admitted that he had hoped to be the car at the sharpest end of the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says he had a "decent" first day in Malaysia but had hoped to be further up the timesheets... read more »

A strong pre-season and opening practice sessions in Melbourne, have left the Mercedes drivers Schumacher and rosberg disappointed to have qualified just fourth and seventh. read more »

Michael Schumacher, 4th: “The first qualifying session of the year proved to be as tight a competition as we had all hoped for. I am certainly read more »

Caterham might have hoped for more during today's qualifying for the Australian GP, but in the end they are reasonably happy with the result. Heikki Kovalainen got... 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 »

HRT F1 has confirmed that it will be carrying out a 'promotional filming session' with its new car at the Circuit de Catalunya tomorrow, meaning the squad will... read more »

HRT will not be ready in time to test this week, the team has confirmed. Having been delayed by the failure of two crash tests, the Spanish outfit had hoped to run its new F112... read more »

Sahara Force India completed a second day of work in Barcelona as Nico Hulkenberg got behind the wheel of the VJM05. The day kicked off well but a driveline issue around noon... read more »

Pastor Maldonado said Williams did not complete the mileage it had hoped for on the first day of the final test at Barcelona, but still gathered some data on its upgrades for... read more »

Bruno Senna is hoping Williams can get to the bottom of its struggle for traction over the remainder of the first Barcelona test after admitting the car had not made the... read more »

Ferrari has admitted its new car is not delivering what it had been hoped for so far - but it has faith that it can get on top of its issues before the first race of the season. read more »

The HRT Formula 1 team has denied rumours that it will use its old chassis for the first few races, instead confirming it hoped to read more »

The makeover may not have changed HRT's overall position, though that's about all the team could have realistically hoped for," writes Mat Coch as he looks back... read more »

Stefano Domenicali admitted that Ferrari hoped for more from the final grand prix of the season in Brazil, but that McLaren and Red Bull were just too strong read more »

Jenson Button has insisted that third place was the best result he could have hoped for in Brazil on Sunday, the McLaren driver finishing in the same position that he started.... read more »

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali believes the team can still take plenty of positives from 2011 despite failing to mount the title challenge it hoped for read more »

Jan Charouz admits he had hoped for a quicker lap time from his day with Renault in Abu Dhabi read more »

12.45pm GMT Hello and welcome to forumula1.com’s live coverage of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The championships are well and truly over and this Yas Marina circuit has... read more »

Felipe Massa said that he "hoped for more" from qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after he could only take sixth on the grid read more »