Sebastian Vettel today took pole position in a dramatic, last-gasp fashion, pipping McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton to the post. Mark Webber will line up third on the grid. Read how qualifying panned out, session-by-session below: Q1 In Q1 Felipe Massa set the fastest time of the session – a 1:36.744 – on the soft tyres, as [...]

The FIA have announced that both Saubers have been disqualified from the Australian Grand Prix with an illegal rear wing on their C30. Race stewards excluded both cars over the infringement of technical rules 3.10.1 and 3.10.2. with the infringement occurring in the uppermost rear wing element. Technical director James Key revealed that the team [...]

Sebastian Vettel has won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in a dominant performance. The German got away cleanly at the start and never looked back as he romped to the chequered flag. Lewis Hamilton did well to finish 2nd, despite being hampered by a damaged undertray for around half of the race. Russian Vitaly Petrov [...]

This is a live blog for the 2011 Australian Grand Prix. Here you can keep up with live commentary of the race, tweets directly from the teams and best of all, Grand Prix chat. Using the comments box when the live blog is underway, you can participate and spark some good Formula 1 debate!

Sebastian Vettel will start tomorrow’s Australian Grand Prix from pole position after a sensational drive in the RB6. After a disappointing pre-season, Lewis Hamilton did well to take 2nd place, sandwiched between the Red Bulls with Mark Webber 3rd. Q1 In the first part of qualifying it was Nick Heidfeld who was disappointingly out for [...]

Hispania today revealed their 2011 car, the F111 at the pit lane at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. The car will be driven by Narain Karthikeyan and Tonio Liuzzi, and pictures of the striking vehicle can be found below: Photos © Motioncompany

Hispania have confirmed that Vitantonio Liuzzi will be driving for them in the 2011 season, partnering Indian Narain Karthikeyan. The news means that in stark contrast to last season where they began with two rookies, this year they will have two experienced F1 drivers at the wheel. Liuzzi said: “I am really happy to have [...]

Williams have today unveiled the livery which they will be running on their FW33 in the 2011 season. It isn’t much different from last year’s car with blue and white the dominating colours, although it features red and gold, similar to the colours used on the ‘Rothmans’ sponsored livery in the 1990s. For pictures of [...]

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has gone fastest at Barcelona testing in the Red Bull RB7 for the second day running. He went over a second faster than yesterday’s time, with Toro Rosso’s Jaime Alguersuari in 2nd place. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was 3rd and was the cause of the first red flag of the day when [...]

World champion Sebastian Vettel only needed 37 laps in his Red Bull RB7 at a wet Circuit de Catalunya today to prove that he was the fastest man out there. The German was over a second faster than 2nd place Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, who enjoyed the support of home fans again. The teams had [...]