Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali is confident that his squad has the right approach to team orders this year, even though Fernando Alonso spent most of the Australian Grand Prix trapped behind Felipe Massa.

Alonso made rapid progress through the field in Melbourne having been pushed into a spin at the first corner, and soon caught team-mate Massa, who had struggled for pace all weekend.

But even though it appeared Alonso could go quicker than Massa, Domenicali said Ferrari's attitude was that the drivers were free to race head to head on track and the team should not intervene to give either one priority.

"It is like [Lewis] Hamilton and [Jenson] Button - I saw them side-by-side," said Domenicali, whose cars eventually finished third and fourth.

"Everyone has two cars."

"Unless some teams want to drive with one car, and if you have good drivers, then that has to be the nature of Formula 1."

He explained that the only limit Ferrari placed on its drivers racing each other was that they should not try anything rash in the closing stages of the race.

"During the final stint, we have a certain internal code of practice that unless there is an obvious situation, then the situation has to be respected," said Domenicali.

"Otherwise, you can attack absolutely."

Alonso had no complaints about the situation after the race, pointing out that while the likes of Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton pulled off dive-bomb moves on Massa, that wasn't an option between the two team-mates.

"When I found myself behind Felipe, maybe I could have gone a bit quicker, but we know it's very hard to pass in Formula 1 and between team-mates, one should not take any unnecessary risks," said Alonso.

"If we had managed to get past [Robert] Kubica, then it might have been a different story, but it wasn't possible, apart from the fact I also had to defend my position against Hamilton and Webber, who were on fresher tyres than us."

The result in Melbourne keeps Ferrari first and second in the world championship, with Alonso four points ahead of Massa.

Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro comes away from the Australian Grand Prix with 27 points to its name, thanks to a third place for Felipe Massa and a fourth for Fernando Alonso. This result means that the Maranello team continues to have its drivers in the top two places in the Drivers’ Championship (Fernando first on 37 points and Felipe second with 33) and the team also leads the Constructors’ classification on 70 points.

Stefano Domenicali: “We can be satisfied with this result. At the end of an incident packed race we managed to get one driver onto the podium and the other – who had been last after the first corner – into fourth spot. Fernando staged a fantastic climb through the field and might have got an even better result, but we know overtaking is always difficult, especially when it involves cars with similar performance levels. He was perfect when defending his position against Hamilton in the closing stages. Felipe got a really good start which formed the basis of his final result: he had a difficult weekend and I am sure this second consecutive podium is pleasing for him. Reliability however is the key factor, as we saw again today. In terms of the championship, today’s result is very positive: those who are our strongest competitors at the moment picked up just a few points and even when compared to other drivers, we have extended our lead. Now we must remain focussed and prepare as well as possible for the next week’s race in Malaysia, where we will again find different conditions to those we have experienced in the first two Grands Prix.”

Felipe Massa: “I am very happy with this result, for myself and for the team. Given everything that happened, rain at the start, the safety car, the switch to slick tyres when the track was still very slippery – we did a great job. These points are very important for the classification: I have never been very lucky here and in the past, I have often struggled in the early part of the season. The key to getting on the podium was the start. I managed not to spin the wheels, while other drivers struggled for grip and I managed to move up to second. Then I lost some places in the early stages, when I had a few problems with grip, but thanks to the strategy, I then managed to make up some. I was able to close on Kubica but I never had a real chance of passing him, while behind me Fernando got very close on more than one occasion, making the most of a few errors. I think the spectators in the grandstands and in front of their TV screens had fun today: you could hardly call it boring!”

Fernando Alonso: “I am pleased with this result. I got an awful start, because I had wheel spin on a white line and was last after the first corner following a collision with two other cars, so to finish fourth is very significant, especially given what happened to some other drivers, meaning we have increased our lead over some of our closest rivals in the title fight. Thanks to the strategy, we managed to get this result. The car was perfect and we were able to run a very long stint with the soft tyres. When I found myself behind Felipe, maybe I could have gone a bit quicker, but we know it’s very hard to pass in Formula 1 and between team-mates, one should not take any unnecessary risks. If we had managed to get past Kubica, then it might have been a different story, but it wasn’t possible, apart from the fact I also had to defend my position against Hamilton and Webber, who were on fresher tyres than us. For sure, after an exciting and action packed race like this, I don’t think we’ll hear much more talk about boring races!”

Chris Dyer: “Before the race, we had hoped for a better result, but after what happened at the start and the first corner, with Fernando relegated to the back of the pack, we have to be happy with taking home a third and a fourth place. We opted to run just one set of dry tyres and that proved to be the right decision. If we had pitted a second time, we would definitely have lost a few places, while staying out on track, we knew our pursuers would catch us in the closing stages and then it would be a case of defending position which is exactly what happened, with a positive outcome. After two races, we are leading both championships and that means we can look forward with confidence to the rest of the season.”

Source: Ferrari.com

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton accused his team of getting race strategy wrong at the Australian Grand Prix.

The 25-year-old was pulled in for a second pit stop on lap 34 while his rivals stayed out on the track.

He closed the gap on Ferrari's Fernando Alonso but could not pass and was then was shunted off the track by Red Bull's Mark Webber with two laps to go.

"The strategy was not right," he said after finishing sixth. "I drove my heart out and I deserved better."

Hamilton was clearly unhappy after the race, which was won by McLaren team-mate Jenson Button. 

And it compounded a disappointing weekend for the Englishman, who had his car impounded by Melbourne police after practice on Friday for alleged improper use of a vehicle, while he only managed to finish 11th at the 150mph in qualifying.

Despite his poor grid position, Hamilton made a good start and he overtook Button on lap six to move to sixth place.

He came into the pits for the first time at the end of lap eight and after taking third from Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg with a stunning overtaking move at Turn 11 on lap 26, Hamilton came in for new tyres on lap 34 when he was putting the pressure on second-placed Robert Kubica.

Hamilton rejoined the race in fifth and although on new tyres he was faster than those in front of him, he could not move up the field while a late shunt from Webber as he was chasing down Alonso forced him to settle for sixth.

"I probably had one of the drives of my life," added Hamilton. "But unfortunately due to the strategy I was put further back and then I got taken out by Mark Webber. I am happy with the job that I did.

"Everyone else in front of me did one stop and for some reason I did two.

"I'd already stopped once and my tyres were fine. I went for the second stop and worked my backside off to catch the 20-second gap. I didn't question it because I always trust the team.

"I had the pace to overtake Kubica and we could have had our first one-two, which would have been great for the team. But unfortunately that wasn't the case."

After the race, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh took responsibility for the decision and admitted that it was the wrong call.

"It was an exciting and disappointing day for Lewis," he said. "He had a great day but we made a decision as a team, we decided that we needed to change tyres and ultimately it disadvantaged him.

"We could have had a one-two and inevitably there's a tinge of disappointment when you don't get it.

"I've already spoken to Lewis, he's someone who wants to win. The time at which we took the decision I personally believed it was the right call, but in hindsight you can now see how the race played out - the Ferraris didn't stop.

"If he'd stayed out and his tyres had been intact he could have been second. At the time, he was losing time behind Kubica and you could see graining on his rear left tyre.

"Those drivers who had pitted were going over a second a lap quicker so we believed it was the right call. To all intents and purposes I made the call as I could stop it or overrule."

And Hamilton accused Webber of "not thinking clearly" during the incident which knocked both men off the track with two laps to go.

"The worst part at the end was getting taken out," said Hamilton. "I think my move wasn't particularly the problem, I would have cut across and got past him, but unfortunately Mark wasn't thinking clearly and he took us out."

Jenson Button won an incident-packed Australian Grand Prix after the leading Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel slid out of the race with brake failure.

In a rain-affected race full of high-octane drama, Sebastian Vettel led almost to half distance but for the second race in a row his Red Bull ran into reliability problems - although this time they were terminal as a wheel failure pitched him off into the gravel.

Button inherited the lead having got up to second despite a difficult start in light rain thanks to an inspired strategy call which saw the world champion switch to slick tyres before all the other front runners.

Robert Kubica managed his tyres equally impressively and claimed an amazing second place for Renault, the Pole having held his own near the front all afternoon after a demon start from ninth place.

Ferrari also only had to pit its cars once and took third and fourth, Felipe Massa finishing ahead of Fernando Alonso this time despite clearly holding the Spaniard up for the majority of the race - who had brilliantly recovered from a first corner tangle with Button.

The sister of Ferrari of Alonso struggled off the line and was soon facing the wrong direction at the first corner, the Spaniard spun round after contact with Button.

Alonso then drove a stunning race to put himself back into contention but once he caught Massa, his charge grinded to a halt. Although no team orders are present at Ferrari, it was clear than Alonso was much faster than Massa as he struggled all weekend with heat and grip in his Ferrari. Ferrari let them race it out and Alonso came under massive pressure in the last 9 laps form Lewis and Mark Webber, which resulted in Mark crashing in to the back of Lewis after Lewis was challenging Alonso, which ultimately set Alonso for 4th place. Perhaps if Ferrari acted on the pace of Alonso, he would have finished second. Lets hear your thoughts?

Home driver Mark Webber suffered a dismal race after two poor decision with Mclaren driver Lewis Hamilton having went off at turn 3 onto the gravel and then later crashing in to the back of Lewis with two laps to go. Mark pitted at managed to take the car home for 9th place.

Pos	Driver	Team	Fastest lap	Race time	Points
1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:29.291	1:33:36.531	25
2	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:29.570	+00:12.034	18
3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:29.537	+00:14.488	15
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:29.707	+00:16.304	12
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1:28.489	+00:16.683	10
6	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:28.506	+00:29.989	8
7	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:29.685	+00:59.847	6
8	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:29.210	+01:00.536	4
9	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:28.358	+01:07.319	2
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1:29.185	+01:09.391	1
11	Jaime Alguersuari	9Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:29.713	+01:11.301
12	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Cosworth	1:30.587	+01:14.084
13	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1:33.638	lapped
14	Karun Chandhok	Hispania-Cosworth	1:35.045	lapped
15	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:34.230	retired, 41 laps
16	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1:36.607	retired, 26 laps
17	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:31.556	retired, 25 laps
18	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:43.223	retired, 9 laps
19	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:43.132	retired, 9 laps
20	Bruno Senna	Hispania-Cosworth	2:27.276	retired, 4 laps
21	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari		crash, 1 laps
22	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth		crash, 1 laps
23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Cosworth		crash, 1 laps
24	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth		retired, 0 laps

Michael Schumacher has pointed an accusing finger at  Fernando Alonso following qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.

Schumacher qualified in seventh in his Mercedes, but felt it could have been better had he been able to clear Alonso and Hamilton at vital times. The German was not happy with the matter and went as far as to seek out FIA representative Charlie Whiting to ask for a rules clarification.

"Basically on my last try, I was slowed down by him," Schumacher said of Alonso. "I asked him whether the team had told him, and he said 'no'.

"It's difficult in a way because he's on his in-lap and worrying about other things other than watching the mirror, but saying that, we had this chat yesterday in the drivers' briefing - that care should be taken about this - and he was one of the main guys [talking] about it.

"I had a conversation with Charlie about this as well, because I need to know what is the reference, what are the guidelines here, what are the rules?

"Because if the rules have changed a little bit to what they used to be, I need to know what you would be okay with, and what not.

"I had a similar issue with Lewis, that he was preparing his lap and blocking me in a way, which is not very nice."

Fernando Alonso was content to qualify behind the dominant Red Bulls in third place for the Australian Grand Prix and says Ferrari must now ensure it at least finishes the traditionally high attrition race on Sunday.

The Bahrain winner and early championship leader proved the only driver able to get within half a second of the two RBR cars in Q3, the Spaniard eventually finishing two tenths of a second down on pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel while team-mate Felipe Massa could only manage a distant fifth.

With Red Bull clearly enjoying an advantage over the rest of the grid in terms of one-lap speed, Alonso believes Ferrari can be happy with its performance and his starting position.

“Qualifying has been good for us,” he said. “We knew that beating the Red Bulls would be a difficult thing to do here. “We just concentrated to maximise our potential, so third is a very good result and the pace has been good in one-lap performance, so we are close to them.” “And tomorrow we will see.”

The two pacesetting teams are more evenly matched on longer run pace on heavy fuel, however, and Alonso could have a chance to make it two wins from two in Sunday’s 58-lap race.

The Spaniard is cautious to predict how the race might pan out but, given Albert Park is notorious for unpredictability and safety car inventions, the double world champion says Ferrari must simply steer clear of trouble to give itself a chance of winning.

“Obviously the race is long, we will try to finish again and hopefully be on the podium again as in Bahrain and keep scoring points,” the 2006 Melbourne winner said. “Here will be a very long race, with safety cars, with accidents, with problems and very tough also for the mechanical aspects of the cars – so first we have to finish the race and then we see if we were quick enough to fight for the win or not.”

Sebastian Vettel stole team-mate and home favourite Mark Webber’s thunder with a virtuoso performance in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.

Bahrain winner Fernando Alonso led the Ferrari challenge in third, two places and some 0.7s ahead of team-mate Felipe Massa, who struggled to get sufficient heat into his F10's tyres.

It was also a disappointing day for Ferrari's Felipe Massa, who was 0.726 seconds off team-mate Alonso in fifth, ahead of the Mercedes pair of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher.

Schumacher, who will be hoping to improve on his sixth-placed finish in the Middle East a fortnight ago, predicted pit-stop strategies may also play a big part in deciding the race.

"Traffic was quite difficult, a couple of guys didn't use their mirrors well," he said.

"The weather does not help with tyres but it is the same for everybody. It will be a long race, the start and the stop you plan to do are two major factors."

Q1

With 24 cars on-track at once teams were working overtime on the pit wall to get their drivers onto clear parts of the track to get their laps in.

The Red Bulls, McLarens and Fernando Alonso all made it through into Q2 by making just one run. And the rapid RB6s managed it without having to use the soft tyres.

The three new cars took up their already customary places in the bottom six, Lotus ahead of Virgin and of HRT. Jarno Trulli’s performance was hindered by a broken seat.

Sebastien Buemi escaped the bottom seven in the dying stages, dropping Renault’s Vitaly Petrov out of qualifying. The Russian driver might have made it into Q2 but for a wild moment in the high-speed turn 11 and 12 chicane.

Q2

After both McLarens had made it into Q2 with a single run it was a surprise to see Lewis Hamilton fail to progress any further.

He did two efforts on the soft tyres he was 11th, 0.062s behind Robert Kubica. Hamilton’s team mate Jenson Button made it through, courtesy of his first time on the soft tyres, and he did his second run on the hard compound after that.

Ferrari also sent Alonso out on the hard tyres for his second run after going fast enough on his first attempt to guarantee he would get through to Q3.

Webber was fastest earlier in Q2 but Vettel showed his pace with a late lap that beat Webber’s time.

Rubens Barrichello took Williams into the final part of qualifying, beating team mate Nico Hülkenberg by seven tenths of a second.

Q3

Webber was quickest to begin with, beating Alonso’s time to head the field. But Vettel went faster in the first two sectors and clung on through a wild final sector to snatch provisional pole position from Webber.

They had enough time for an extra set of runs but there were no significant improvements. Webber beat Vettel in the first and third sectors but couldn’t beat Vettel’s time in the middle part of the lap.

Nor were there many changes further down the order. The Mercedes drivers were the only ones to try a run on hard tyres at the end of the session but neither driver improved their time.

Felipe Massa was the only driver to move up the order, taking fifth place some seven tenths of a second slower than Alonso.

Vettel described his pole lap as being “spot on everywhere – until I reached the last three corners”. The gap between the Red Bull drivers may be much smaller than it was at Bahrain, but it’s still Vettel who holds the upper hand.

Overall times

Pos.	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1′24.774	1′24.096	1′23.919
2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1′25.286	1′24.276	1′24.035
3	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1′25.082	1′24.335	1′24.111
4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1′24.897	1′24.531	1′24.675
5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1′25.548	1′25.010	1′24.837
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1′24.788	1′24.788	1′24.884
7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1′25.351	1′24.871	1′24.927
8	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1′25.702	1′25.085	1′25.217
9	Robert Kubica	Renault	1′25.588	1′25.122	1′25.372
10	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1′25.504	1′25.046	1′26.036
11	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1′25.046	1′25.184
12	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′26.061	1′25.638
13	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1′26.170	1′25.743
14	Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1′26.089	1′25.747
15	Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1′25.866	1′25.748
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1′26.251	1′25.777
17	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′26.095	1′26.089
18	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1′26.471
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1′28.797
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1′29.111
21	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1′29.592
22	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1′30.185
23	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1′30.526
24	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	1′30.613

Credit: BBC, ITV, F1 Fanatic

Friday afternoon’s second practice session for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix nearly only lasted half an hour, even though the clocks were running for three times that. The problem was that one of the forecast showers arrived a third of the way through, and left the track so slick that it was not until the last 10 minutes that anybody went any faster.

Ferrari suffered quite a dissapointing P2, but mainly focused on the longer race runs rather than the 1 lap Quali pace.

 

Position	Driver	Car	Best lap		Laps
1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1′25.801		13
2	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1′26.076	0.275	16
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1′26.248	0.447	22
4	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1′26.511	0.71	16
5	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1′26.732	0.931	26
6	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′26.832	1.031	29
7	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1′26.834	1.033	22
8	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1′26.835	1.034	17
9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1′26.904	1.103	25
10	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1′26.956	1.155	22
11	Robert Kubica	Renault	1′27.108	1.307	28
12	Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber-Ferrari	1′27.108	1.307	25
13	Kamui Kobyashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1′27.455	1.654	23
14	Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1′27.545	1.744	25
15	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1′29.025	3.224	20
16	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1′29.134	3.333	19
17	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1′29.591	3.79	21
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1′29.860	4.059	15
19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1′30.510	4.709	43
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1′30.695	4.894	17
21	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1′32.117	6.316	9
22	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth			2
23	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth			1
24	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth

Fernando Alonso, P1 -1:27.747, 6th; P2 - 1:29.025, 15th
"I am happy to be racing in Melbourne: this is one of the most enjoyable events on the calendar. Overall, I am reasonably happy with the work we managed to get done today, despite the rain that came in the second session. Sure, I would have liked to have got a greater understanding of the tyre behaviour, especially the softer ones, which we only used in FP2. However, I think everyone was in the same situation. We worked exclusively at preparing for Sunday's race and that's why I'm not bothered by my position in the classification. Usually on Friday, this track is very dirty but this time the grip level on the first lap was not so bad. For the race, tyre management will be a key factor, given that it's very probable that we will have to do a lot of laps on the same set of tyres. We will need to try and handle it in the best way possible to be able to attack when the right moment comes."

Felipe Massa, P1 -1:27.511, 4th; P2 - 1:29.591, 17th
"It was a difficult Friday, especially the second session. Because of the rain which came and went, we did not manage to do exactly what we would have wanted. We concentrated on race preparation while it's possible some other teams were on a different programme to us. So, there is no point in trying to understand the situation simply by looking at the time sheet. Our aim tomorrow is to be well prepared for qualifying, which at this track will be even more important than usual. From what we have seen, the tyres do not suffer much degradation, but it's still a bit early to draw any definite conclusions. I like the Albert Park circuit a lot: I have always been quick here, but for one reason or another, I have never managed to finish the race in the points, apart from in 2007 when, after a difficult qualifying, I finished sixth. I hope I have better luck this time."

Stefano Domenicali, Ferrari team principal
"We tried to get through all our planned programme, which centred on finding the best set-up for the race and on evaluating the two types of tyre Bridgestone has supplied for this Grand Prix. Obviously, we would have preferred to have been able to do more laps in consistent conditions, but this applies to everyone, so it's not worth complaining about. All in all, from what we could see, the situation is similar to the one in Bahrain. Tomorrow, it will be vital to have a good qualifying: in order to do that, it will be very important to manage the timing to find the best moment to go out and do a time, especially in the first two sessions."

Chris Dyer, Ferrari chief engineer
"We did not manage to get through everything we wanted to do, but all the same, we were able to acquire enough information on the handling of the car and the tyres. The F10 seems to be pretty good on this track too, both on the harder and softer tyres. As scheduled, both cars were fitted with the engines they had on Friday and Saturday in Bahrain. On Fernando's car, we also tried a new updated front wing, which gave positive results. Tomorrow, it will be available to both drivers."

Robert Kubica got Renault's Australian Grand Prix campaign off to a fine start with the fastest time in Friday morning's opening practice session. The Pole took his R30 round in 1m 26.927s, making him the only driver to breach the 1m 27s mark.

There were two red flags, both occasioned by BMW Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi. In the first he lost his front wing after clobbering a plastic marker cone; in the second the replacement wing appeared to become detached. He ended up 18th on 1m 31.588s after walking home the second time.

Australian GP free practice session one times
1  KUBICA        Renault       1m26.927s
2  ROSBERG       Mercedes      1m27.126s
3  BUTTON        McLaren       1m27.482s
4    MASSA         Ferrari       1m27.511s
5  VETTEL        Red Bull      1m27.686s
6  ALONSO        Ferrari       1m27.747s
7    HAMILTON      McLaren       1m27.793s
8  BUEMI         Toro Rosso    1m28.014s
9  PETROV        Renault       1m28.114s
10 LIUZZI        Force  India   1m28.192s
11 DI RESTA      Force  India   1m28.537s
12 SCHUMACHER    Mercedes      1m28.550s
13 ALGUERSUARI   Toro Rosso    1m28.572s
14 WEBBER        Red Bull      1m28.683s
15 DE LAROSA    Sauber        1m29.465s
16 BARRICHELLO   Williams      1m29.712s
17 HULKENBERG    Williams      1m30.249s
18 KOBAYASHI     Sauber        1m31.588s
19 TRULLI        Lotus         1m31.652s
20 KOVALAINEN    Lotus         1m31.654s
21 DI GRASSI     Virgin        1m32.831s
22 SENNA         HRT           1m33.401s
23 CHANDHOK      HRT           1m34.251s
24 GLOCK         Virgin        1m34.925s

Albert Park, Melbourne, 26-28 March

Friday 26 March
Practice one: 0125-0305, BBC Red Button/online
Practice two: 0525-0705, BBC Red Button/online

Saturday 27 March
Practice three: 0255-0405, BBC Red Button/online 
Qualifying: 0500-0730, BBC One/online and BBC Radio 5 live sports extra/online
Qualifying re-run: 1300-1415, BBC One

Sunday 28 March
Race: 0600-0900, BBC One/online and BBC Radio 5 live/online
Post race forum: 0900-1000, BBC Red Button/online 
Race re-run: 1300-1500, BBC One
Highlights: 1900-2000, BBC Three (highlights then looped on Red Button)