Whilst our low fuel runs look good, our primary focus has been on race pace and working to understand the tyres so that we can use them as well as possible on Sunday. read more »

Lewis Hamilton says he is ready to fight his way through the field but hopes the pace shown Friday will at least mean he doesn't have to fight too hard... read more »

Although he is pleased with Mercedes’ progress between the 2011 and 2012 F1 seasons, Friday pace-setter Michael Schumacher admits that more needs to come from the... read more »

Jenson Button admitted that he was struggling to extract the pace from his McLaren during Friday practice at Shanghai read more »

Daniel Ricciardo admits that he expected more speed when using Pirelli’s Option tyre in Shanghai on Friday. For the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, the softer of the two... read more »

Ross Brawn confirmed that Mercedes had spent most of Friday practice focusing on race pace despite setting the fastest time of the day read more »

Michael Schumacher finished the second practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix on top as Mercedes continued to gain a significant advantage form its unique DRS system read more »

Michael Schumacher ended the first day of testing for the Chinese Grand Prix quickest with a time of 1:35.973, to put him almost two tenths read more »

Michael Schumacher put his definitely legal W-duct to good use at the Shanghai circuit on Friday afternoon, edging Lewis Hamilton to the P1 slot.... read more »

McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton was the fastest man on the Shanghai International Circuit during the first free practice of the Chinese GP. The Briton was followed by... read more »

Lewis Hamilton topped the rain-hit opening free practice session for the Chinese Grand Prix read more »

Lewis Hamilton proved he has the pace to fight for pole position in China were it not for his pending grid penalty... read more »

Sebastian Vettel will revert to an older specification of exhaust layout for first practice at the Chinese Grand Prix as his Red Bull Racing team aim to unlock more pace from... read more »

Apr.12 (GMM) Red Bull will split in two directions this weekend in China, as the defending champions seek to return to the pace. After a less than satisfying start to the... read more »

Pastor Maldonado believes Williams needs to improve its qualifying pace in order to fight closer to the front of the field read more »

Fernando Alonso is refusing to get carried away about his five-point advantage in the drivers' championship ahead of this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, despite... read more »

Fernando Alonso is under no illusions that Ferrari has managed to turn its car around for the Chinese Grand Prix read more »

Ross Brawn says Mercedes have plans and actions in place to improve their tyre management following their problems in the first two races... read more »

McLaren must capitalise on its current pace advantage while it can, reckons the team's technical director Paddy Lowe, as he admitted that there was a sense of slight... read more »

Ferrari is around eight tenths of a second adrift of the front-running pace, despite Fernando Alonso leading the championship at present. That is the view of Technical Director... read more »

Ferrari technical chief Pat Fry says the team are still off the pace in F1 2012 despite leading the championship standings heading to China this weekend read more »

Ferrari technical chief Pat Fry believes the team is still almost a second off the pace in normal dry conditions, even though Fernando Alonso is leading the Formula 1 world... read more »

The Lotus E20 has already shown it has the pace to compete at the front of the grid, but the team's Technical Director James Allison is happily looking forward to the... read more »

With just one point in the bag, Mercedes need to turn their qualifying pace into a solid race result in China... read more »

Although Mercedes has demonstrated strong qualifying pace this year, the silver arrows are yet to translate that promise into firm race results. To date, Michael Schumacher has... read more »