Fernando Alonso, 9th: "Today, we were worth a place somewhere between eighth and twelfth, so ninth on the grid fits in with our current level. Honestly, given the... read more »

Many expected a second Nico Rosberg pole position within he space of a week today, although the leading Mercedes driver could manage no more than fifth on the grid in Bahrain.... 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 »

Sebastian Vettel, 1st: “It feels great and I completely owe this one to the team. It wasn’t an easy start to the season for us and there was a lot of... 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 »

Pedro de la Rosa: "I’m very happy to be honest. We come from not qualifying in Australia not long ago, so when I saw the times we posted I was glad. For us... 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 »

Jenson Button believes there will be a silver lining to his disappointing Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying performance as he was able to save a set of tyres for the race. read more »

Kimi Räikkönen will start only 11th at Sakhir on Sunday, with the Finn having been knocked out of Q2 qualifying when team-mate Romain Grosjean improved his... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo, 6th: “It feels very good and I am very happy with that result. We had a below average week in China with some updates we brought. We persisted with... read more »

Heikki Kovalainen, 16th: “That was an excellent qualifying session for our team. It's a real bonus for us getting into Q2 but we'd already seen this morning... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen is hopeful his qualifying gamble will pay off in the Bahrain Grand Prix after deciding to save tyres for the race read more »

Bahrain 2012 is all about tyres, said Shanghai winner Nico Rosberg on Friday. More specifically, Germany's Auto Motor und Sport revealed that the key to victory this... read more »

Pirelli admits that it still has to understand how long its tyres will last in the heat and dust of Bahrain. read more »

Bahrain 2012 is all about tyres, said Shanghai winner Nico Rosberg on Friday. More specifically, Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport revealed that the key to victory this... read more »

Both Caterham drivers completed a considerable amount of laps today and hence made it a successful day for the entire team. The day was particularly important because of the... read more »

Both sessions were dominated by the performance of the medium and soft tyres as we worked to optimise the set-ups to balance the car for the difficult track conditions. read more »

Fernando Alonso, 8th: "Traditionally, I've always gone well at this track, one of the few where I have won three times. And so it's always a pleasure to drive at... read more »

The key for this weekend's race will be making the tyres work in the heat and we're encouraged by our pace using both tyres with both cars on high fuel today. read more »

"The tyres were a bit of a surprise for everybody in terms of how they are behaving," says Mark Webber, "they're losing their grip pretty quick, but... read more »

Although Sebastian Vettel believes "others" are the favourites in Bahrain, he reckons Red Bull have taken a step forward... read more »

Daniel Ricciardo, 11th: "Importantly, we made progress through the day, after the first session did not go too well. We couldn't get the tyres to read more »