Formula One News — March 2012

Australian GP - Saturday Team Quotes

Australian GP - Qualifying Results

Australian GP - Practice 3 Report

Australian GP - Practice 3 Results

Despite much pre-event speculation about the state of Ferrari's competitiveness, Fernando Alonso expects the usual teams to be battling out the first race of the new F1 season.

Australian GP - Practice 2 Report

Australian GP - Friday Photos

Australian GP - Friday Press Conference

Australian GP - Friday Team Quotes

Australian GP - Practice 2 Results

Australian GP - Practice 1 Report

Australian GP - Practice 1 Results

The HRT team is running late in its preparation for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, and have asked the FIA to delay scrutinnering until Friday morning.

Australian GP - Thursday Press Conference

Both Michael Schumacher and Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn have played down swelling undercurrents that the team could be well placed to fight for a win in the season-opening Australian GP.

The Lotus F1 Team has announced a three-year partnership with Microsoft. The deal begins with immediate effect, the livery to be unveiled on both the team's E20 chassis and drivers' overalls at the Melbourne F1 season-opener this coming weekend.

F1 tyre supplier Pirelli believes that it has placed more emphasis on race strategy in 2012 by reducing the performance gap between its four compounds and extending the window of peak performance.

The FIA World Motorsport Council met today in Milan, Italy to finalise the rules for the upcoming season.

The Caterham F1 has announced that American Alexander Rossi has joined the Anglo-Malaysian team as a test driver.

Spaniard Maria De Villota, daughter of former F1 driver Emilio, is to test for Marussia.

The new HRT F112 made its debut at Barcelona late on Monday, taking advantage of the filming regulations to conduct a shakedown ahead of the Australian GP on March 18.

A 1m22.03s lap from Kimi Raikkonen's Lotus was the quickest testing lap seen at Barcelona this winter as the F1 teams completed their final day of testing ahead of the season-opening Australian GP on March 18.

Sergio Perez set the quickest time of the latest Barcelona test so far in the new Sauber, although 47 laps in the morning included a qualifying simulation on soft compound Pirelli tyres.

Romain Grosjean kept Lotus at the top of the Barcelona time sheets on the second day of the final pre-season F1 test.

Sir Frank Williams, who will be 70 next month, has stepped down from the Board of Williams Grand Prix Holdings PLC.