DRIVERS: 1 – Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull), 2 – Kimi RAIKKONEN (Lotus), 3 – Romain GROSJEAN (Lotus): TV UNILATERAL... read more »

Jenson Button was mystified by the McLaren team's lack of pace in the Bahrain Grand Prix, having been unable to fight the Red Bulls and Lotus cars for victory read more »

Bruno Senna - DNF: "We did everything right on the first lap but unfortunately I was struggling to keep the pace to the cars in front. I think we were quite aggressive... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has lamented Lotus' lack of pace which prevented him - along with a mistake of his own - from winning the Bahrain GP.... read more »

We now need to concentrate on tomorrow and hope to use our better race pace to potentially make our way up into the points. read more »

We're a little bit disappointed with our pace on the soft tyre and we need to assess where we lost out on speed. read more »

Mark Gillan, chief operations engineer: "We have had a relatively tough day today with Pastor experiencing a KERs problem in qualifying which forced us to pit his car and... read more »

Nico Rosberg revealed he sacrificed some qualifying pace to help his race set-up on Saturday at the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Mark Webber admitted that Red Bull was "pretty surprised" to be able to take pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix read more »

Mark Webber is positive that Red Bull can enjoy its best race so far in 2012, having qualified first and third for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite being beaten on a Saturday by... read more »

Paul Hembery: "We've seen a great job from Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, who demonstrated their ability to get the most out of the tyres by extracting every last bit... read more »

Nico Rosberg, 5th: "In general, I felt very comfortable during qualifying today. However, as we have been focusing on our race pace, there is always a compromise in the... read more »

Kimi Räikkönen, 11th: “We had the speed today and we could easily have gone through to the final session with another run, but we thought it was... read more »

Paul di Resta, 10th: “I’m very happy with our qualifying performance today. With our reduced programme yesterday it wasn’t easy getting all the... read more »

Sergio Pérez, 8th: “Today was a very good qualifying and another great effort by the team. The result is a lot better than we expected after free practice.... read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 2nd: “I’m very happy with how qualifying went and the job the team has done so far this weekend. I’ve put the car on the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel says he and Mark Webber owe their strong qualifying performance to the hard work put in by the Red Bull team. The German, who dominated Saturday in 2011 by... read more »

Nico Rosberg said he compromised his qualifying performance in order to have a stronger Bahrain Grand Prix race performance on Sunday read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has only himself to blame for his Q2 exit in Bahrain as his team revealed he was 'satisfied' with his pace... read more »

Sebastian Vettel said his first pole position of the 2012 Formula 1 season was a tribute to his Red Bull team's efforts to get back on the pace after a tough start to the... read more »

Mark Webber has admitted his surprise at the pace of the Red Bull RB8 after qualifying third for the Bahrain Grand Prix. read more »

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg quickest in final practice session at Sakhir, ahead of Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Schumacher and Button. read more »

FIA – McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh explained after practice that judging wind speed and direction will be a crucial factor in set-up for the Bahrain Grand... read more »

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes have the pace to match McLaren on race day and qualifying as well as practice. read more »

From what we can see so far the pace of both compounds is around 0.6 seconds apart and degradation is in line with expectations. But we still have a lot of data to go through. read more »