The boss of the Australian Grand Prix Ron Walker has labelled Formula One drivers "lazy prima donnas" after they complained about low light levels at this year's race

Sebastian Vettel has clarified the widely reported comments he made after Fernando Alonso's crash on the final day of the second Barcelona test

Kevin Magnussen says he would not feel fully prepared to race for McLaren in Australia if Fernando Alonso is declared unfit for the season opener

Fernando Alonso will not compete at the Australian Grand Prix on the recommendation of doctors as he continues to recover from his testing crash in Barcelona

Fernando Alonso says he fully understands why doctors have recommended he sit out the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 15.

Formula One drivers and team bosses have expressed their sympathy for the paying spectators who turned up in appalling conditions at Suzuka on Saturday only to see qualifying postponed until Sunday morning

Lewis Hamilton confessed that the conditions he drove in during Saturday's third practice session at Suzuka were some of the worst in his career

Lewis Hamilton's championship chances have been dealt a further blow after the McLaren driver was handed a five place grid penalty for the team changing his gearbox

Sebastian Vettel lived up to expectations at Suzuka by taking pole for the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber

Lewis Hamilton said the Japanese Grand Prix had so far been one of the worst weekends of his season

Driver and team reaction after the Japanese Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel recorded a start-to-finish victory at an incident-packed Japanese Grand Prix, with team-mate Mark Webber taking second to complete a perfect weekend for Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel said that he had fallen in love with the Suzuka circuit after winning the Japanese Grand Prix for the second time

Fernando Alonso said that third was the best he could have hoped for on the circuit least suited to Ferrari of the remaining races

Kamui Kobayashi said he was pleased to have entertained his home fans after a thrilling drive punctuated with opportunistic overtaking manoeuvres saw him finish seventh in the Japanese Grand Prix

Michael Schumacher said that sixth place was the best he could have achieved after achieving his best result of the season to date

Felipe Massa refused to take the blame for his move on the opening lap that led to his retirement, instead blaming bad luck

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is expecting Felipe Massa to return to form in the final three races and get amongst the five title challengers

Follow live action from the third day of testing in Jerez

The third day of pre-season testing in Jerez saw Sauber's Felipe Nasr at the top of the timesheets, while McLaren made limited progress with its new Honda-powered MP4-30 and Red Bull were delayed by a lengthily Renault engine change

Kimi Raikkonen put Ferrari at the top of the Jerez timesheets for the third day in four as the first week of pre-season testing came to a close on Wednesday

Toro Rosso rookie Carlos Sainz Jr blamed high winds for the crash he suffered late on Sunday in Barcelona and said it spoiled his most encouraging day of testing so far

Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz called his first qualifying session a "dream" after finishing eighth, but 17-year-old team-mate Max Verstappen was left rueing a mistake which cost him a place in Q3 in Australia

Seventeen-year-old Max Verstappen will start his second Formula One race from sixth on the grid but admitted it could have been even better without a brake issue in Malaysia

Lewis Hamilton is pinning his hopes on his McLaren's race pace at the Monaco Grand Prix, after he claimed to have extracted everything from it in qualifying and only claimed fifth on the grid

All the driver's reaction after the Monaco Grand Prix

Mark Webber completed a start-to-finish victory in the Monaco Grand Prix, his second win in succession, to go joint top in the drivers' championship with team-mate Sebastian Vettel

Mark Webber said his win in the Monaco Grand Prix was "one of the greatest days" of his life.

Michael Schumacher and Ross Brawn said they were confident there would be no penalty after Schumacher's last-lap overtake of Fernando Alonso

Mercedes will appeal the stewards' decision to penalise Michael Schumacher for overtaking Fernando Alonso at the final corner of the Monaco Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso was left wondering what might have been after fighting through the field from last to sixth at the Monaco Grand Prix

Williams will launch a full investigation into the causes of its two crashes at the Monaco Grand Prix

Jenson Button has confirmed that his engine failure and retirement from the Monaco Grand Prix was caused by a cooling cover being left on his left-hand sidepod during the formation lap

Mercedes has not decided whether to proceed with its appeal against the decision of the stewards at the Monaco Grand Prix

Rubens Barrichello has denied suggestions he recklessly endangered his Formula One rivals at the Monaco Grand Prix

A change to the safety car rule that caught out Michael Schumacher at the Monaco Grand Prix should be in place for the European Grand Prix

A loose manhole cover was responsible for causing Rubens Barrichello's spectacular accident in the Monaco Grand Prix

Robert Kubica has played down the chances of a repeat of his Monaco performance at this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix

After a gruelling race in the heat of Sepang the competitors offer their thoughts

Lewis Hamilton confessed himself happy with sixth place at the Malaysian Grand Prix after the McLaren driver fought his way up from 20th on the grid

Nico Rosberg thanked the hard work of his Mercedes team after securing its first ever podium finish

Jenson Button said his gamble to pit early to change to Prime tyres during the early stages of the race cost him a better result

Felipe Massa admitted the team has much hard work to do in the weeks ahead if it is to hold onto the lead of the drivers' and constructors' standings

Adrian Sutil said his fifth place finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix was a 'great achievement' for the Force India team

Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi said he was surprised with the engine failure that ended his Malaysian Grand Prix

Williams new boy Nico Hulkenberg admitted that his team has a lot of work ahead of them after finishing tenth in the Malaysian Grand Prix

Jenson Button has flown back to Woking to work in McLaren's simulator in the hope of resolving some of the set-up problems he experienced at the Malaysian Grand Prix

Renault team boss Eric Boullier believes Lewis Hamilton should have been penalised for weaving on the straight ahead of Vitaly Petrov during Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix

The Emirates Airline and Group chairman does not see air travel returning to normal for at least another 18 months.