Red Bull and engine supplier Renault will be hoping for improvements in performance in the final pre-season test in Bahrain. read more »

Cooling is one of the main priorities for all of the teams this season, with a massive increase in the electrical energy being both stored and used. Furthermore the thermal... read more »

Felipe Massa's former race engineer at Ferrari, Rob Smedley, will join Williams ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix and will be joined by Marussia's Richard Lockwood.... read more »

Rob Smedley, Felipe Massa's former race engineer, has joined the Brazilian at Williams as the Grove team's Head of Vehicle Performance... read more »

Felipe Massa's former race engineer at Ferrari, Rob Smedley, will join Williams as head of vehicle performance from the Bahrain Grand... read more »

Williams have confirmed that Rob Smedley is re-uniting with Felipe Massa after joining the Grove-based team as Head of Vehicle Performance. read more »

Rob Smedley has been confirmed as Williams's new head of vehicle performance ahead of the start of the 2014 season. Smedley has been Felipe Massa's race engineer... read more »

After months of speculation, Williams has confirmed that Rob Smedley has joined the team in the newly created role of Head of Vehicle Performance. read more »

Felipe Massa's former race engineer Rob Smedley has joined Williams in the newly-created role of head of vehicle performance read more »

Esteban Gutierrez says problems with the Sauber brake-by-wire system is preventing the drivers from further improving the car's... read more »

Kamui Kobayashi has given a damning verdict on Caterham's chances at the season opener in Australia, claiming it might be better to take a GP2 car. The team struggled to... read more »

Lotus believe their nose design, dubbed the 'twin-tusk thanks to its appearance, is providing a performance advantage over the lower noses adopted by rival teams. There... read more »

Williams has confirmed that Susie Wolff will continue as the team's development driver throughout 2014, which will include taking part in two FP1 sessions. It's... read more »

Q. What were the key steps taken between Jerez and Bahrain? Rob White: We made a number of specification changes to the Energy Store (battery), involving modified hardware,... read more »

Whilst Renault's power unit enjoyed its best day yet, having completed just over 200 laps in the back of its customers cars, Kamui Kobayashi says it's unable to... read more »

Nico Rosberg says Mercedes has surprised even itself at how reliably it has been able to run so far in testing, but admits the focus is now on... read more »

Kamui Kobayashi says it was "good" to unlock some of his Caterham's performance even if his P6 time doesn't count for much... read more »

Caterham is not running "anywhere near full performance levels" yet in testing but can be happy with its reliability, according to Robin... read more »

Mercedes have yet to dial their new power unit up to maximum revs according to Lewis Hamilton, who admitted the team had some performance in hand. The Briton went third... read more »

Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes will start working on the pace of its car this week in Bahrain and says it hasn't used the full performance of the new power unit... read more »

Marussia are hoping to make a big enough step forward this year that they'll be a regular feature in the second qualifying phase - something they only achieved twice in... read more »

The resumption of pre-season F1 testing will focus on Renault's battle for both performance and reliability after a frustrating debut for its new V6 at... read more »

Felipe Massa is hopeful that Williams will have an impressive season after the Wantage team produced a solid performance at last month's Jerez test... read more »

Ferrari's technical director James Allison says he expects the current cars to be much quicker at the opening race in Australia than people fear they will. Whilst Jenson... read more »

Ferrari technical director James Allison is expecting a rapid increase in the performance of the current Formula 1 cars before the start of the season. read more »