McLaren locked-out the front row in the first qualifying session of the season, as Lewis Hamilton took pole from Jenson Button. Romain Grosjean rounded out the top three.
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Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher set the fastest times in Friday Practice 1 and 2 respectively. Read on for full session times.
You can now predict the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in our 2012 Predictions Championship. The predictions form below will be open until qualifying begins on Saturday.
HRT today revealed the F112 that will be driven by Narain Karthikeyan and Pedro de la Rosa in 2012. The car was revealed at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.
Marussia today revealed their first car under their new guise, with the MR01 launched by drivers Timo Glock and Charles Pic at Silverstone.
Lotus’ Romain Grosjean has set the fastest time on days 1 and 2 of the third pre-season test in Barcelona.
Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi set the fastest time of the day as the second pre-season test at the Circuit de Catalunya drew to a close. His 1:22.312 was the quickest time of the week.
Pastor Maldonado set the fastest time on the penultimate day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya, ahead of Michael Schumacher and Kamui Kobayashi.
Nico Hulkenberg ended the second day of testing at the Circuit de Catalunya fastest, beating Sauber’s Sergio Perez to the top of the timesheet by four-hundredths of a second.