Formula One News

Virgin’s Timo Glock on setting the pace for the new teams after qualifying 19th; reigning world champion Jenson Button on failing to make it through to Q3 for McLaren; and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on clinching his fourth consecutive pole position. All 24 drivers, and senior team personnel, review Saturday’s action at the Hungaroring…

BMW Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi has been handed a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix by the Budapest race stewards, after he failed to enter the FIA garage to be weighed during qualifying on Saturday.

During practice and qualifying cars are called in at random to be weighed to ensure that they comply with minimum weight requirements (620kg).

Drivers: 1. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 1m 18.773s; 2. Mark Webber (Red Bull), 1m 19.184s; 3. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), 1m 19.987s

Q: Sebastian, 100th Grand Prix for Red Bull Racing. A front row lock-out and a commanding performance from yourself in qualifying.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, it was a very good day for us. All weekend here we felt very comfortable, from the first practice session onwards with the car. I think we were able to improve it again another bit overnight. I said on the radio to the boys ‘this is your moment.’ Mark and myself

Nobody could hold a candle to Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on Saturday in Hungary – not even team mate Mark Webber, who took a distant second to the German’s dominant pole time. Together the duo look pretty invincible for Sunday’s race, but there’s no doubt Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in third and fourth, and fifth-placed McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton will do all they can to stop Red Bull having it all their own way in Budapest. We take a team-by-team look at the pre-race form…

Having just taken his fourth pole position in a row, there is no doubting Sebastian Vettel’s one-lap performance. While it’s true that he’s found it more difficult to convert those front-row starts into race wins, Vettel is confident that should all change in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Considering the lead he had on Saturday over his team mate Mark Webber and the two Ferraris, few would disagree…

After a race that took three attempts to start, Venezuela’s Pastor Maldonado extended his GP2 Series lead for Rapax on Saturday with a crushing fifth victory of the season. He led home Racing Engineering’s Christian Vietoris and Barwa Addax’s Sergio Perez…

A drive-through penalty for his team mate helped seal an unexpected, but well-deserved win for Red Bull’s Mark Webber in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel took third following his safety-car rule infringement, behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.

With McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton failing to finish and team mate Jenson Button only eighth, Webber heads the standings going into the summer break…

Renault’s Robert Kubica and Force India’s Adrian Sutil on their pit-lane collision; Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on his drive-through penalty; Williams’ Rubens Barrichello and Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher on their close encounter; and Mark Webber on taking his fourth win of the season in Red Bull’s 100th Grand Prix. All 24 drivers, and senior team personnel, report back on Sunday’s race…

The Renault and Mercedes GP teams have each been fined $50,000 by the FIA for pit-stop mistakes during Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

Renault’s Robert Kubica was unsafely released from his stop into the path of Force India’s Adrian Sutil. Kubica and Sutil collided as a result and Sutil was forced to retire immediately. Kubica continued and was handed a 10-second stop-and-go penalty before also retiring with accident damage…

Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher has been penalised by the Hungarian Grand Prix stewards for his clash with Williams’ Rubens Barrichello in the closing laps of Sunday’s Budapest race. Schumacher has been handed a 10-place grid penalty for the next round in Belgium…