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Below are the results, upcoming races, and drivers and constructors standings:
Results
Australia - 1st Raikkonen, 2nd Alonso, 3rd Vettel
Malaysia - 1st Vettel, 2nd Webber, 3rd Hamilton
China - 1st Alonso, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Hamilton
Bahrain - 1st Vettel, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Grosjean
Spain - 1st Alonso, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Massa
Monaco - 1st Rosberg, 2nd Vettel, 3rd Webber
Canada - 1st Vettel, 2nd Alonso, 3rd Hamilton
Great Britain - 1st Rosberg, 2nd Webber, 3rd Alonso
Germany - 1st Vettel, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Grosjean
Upcoming Races
Hungary 28th July
Belgium 25th August
Italy 08th September
Singapore 22nd September
Korea 06th October
Japan 13th October
India 27th October
Abu Dhabi 03rd November
United States17th November
Brazil 24th November
Drivers Standings
1 Sebastian Vettel 157
2 Fernando Alonso 123
3 Kimi Raikkonen 116
4 Lewis Hamilton 99
5 Mark Webber 93
6 Nico Rosberg 84
7 Felipe Massa 57
8 Romain Grosjean 41
9 Paul di Resta 36
10 Jenson Button 33
11 Adrian Sutil 23
12 Sergio Perez 16
13 Jean-Eric Vergne 13
14 Daniel Ricciardo11
15 Nico Hulkenberg 7
Rest yet to score
Constructors Standings
1 Red Bull 250
2 Mercedes 183
3 Ferrari 180
4 Lotus 157
5 Force India 59
6 McLaren 49
7 Toro Rosso 24
8 Sauber 7
Rest yet to score
Results
Australia - 1st Raikkonen, 2nd Alonso, 3rd Vettel
Malaysia - 1st Vettel, 2nd Webber, 3rd Hamilton
China - 1st Alonso, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Hamilton
Bahrain - 1st Vettel, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Grosjean
Spain - 1st Alonso, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Massa
Monaco - 1st Rosberg, 2nd Vettel, 3rd Webber
Canada - 1st Vettel, 2nd Alonso, 3rd Hamilton
Great Britain - 1st Rosberg, 2nd Webber, 3rd Alonso
Germany - 1st Vettel, 2nd Raikkonen, 3rd Grosjean
Upcoming Races
Hungary 28th July
Belgium 25th August
Italy 08th September
Singapore 22nd September
Korea 06th October
Japan 13th October
India 27th October
Abu Dhabi 03rd November
United States17th November
Brazil 24th November
Drivers Standings
1 Sebastian Vettel 157
2 Fernando Alonso 123
3 Kimi Raikkonen 116
4 Lewis Hamilton 99
5 Mark Webber 93
6 Nico Rosberg 84
7 Felipe Massa 57
8 Romain Grosjean 41
9 Paul di Resta 36
10 Jenson Button 33
11 Adrian Sutil 23
12 Sergio Perez 16
13 Jean-Eric Vergne 13
14 Daniel Ricciardo11
15 Nico Hulkenberg 7
Rest yet to score
Constructors Standings
1 Red Bull 250
2 Mercedes 183
3 Ferrari 180
4 Lotus 157
5 Force India 59
6 McLaren 49
7 Toro Rosso 24
8 Sauber 7
Rest yet to score
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Race is live om BBC1 with practice covered on BBC2 from Friday.
Can't wait after the long gap we have between the non-European races and Spain.
Still plenty to play for at the moment. I'm just hoping McLaren can get their car working better and we see Jenson able to race alongside the others.
One of the strongest years so far for top drivers, too.
Can't wait after the long gap we have between the non-European races and Spain.
Still plenty to play for at the moment. I'm just hoping McLaren can get their car working better and we see Jenson able to race alongside the others.
One of the strongest years so far for top drivers, too.
Second practice only 0.332 seconds separated Vetel, Alonso, Webber, Raikkonen, Massa, and Hamilton, gearing up to be a cracking race!
Nice to know Perez is nice and positive......
Sergio Perez has admitted McLaren cannot be considered title contenders following their wretched start to the 2013 season.
With the much-hyped MP4-28 proving to be a dud on track and the team bereft of a quick fix for their problem child, McLaren, who last won the coveted Constructors' Championship as long ago as 1998, currently sit just sixth in the standings, almost one hundred points behind leaders Red Bull.
Lacking pace and consistency, such has been the scale of the MP4-28's performance deficit that neither Perez, who had scored more points this time last year with Sauber than he has with his new team in the current campaign, nor team-mate Jenson Button have yet to challenge for a podium, let alone a win.
There might still be a long way to travel in the 2013 season but, as the forlorn Mexican admitted in a press briefing on Friday at Barcelona, there is even further to go for McLaren to catch the frontrunners.
"It's not realistic to think that we are going to be fighting for the title," the 23-year-old conceded. "It's the fifth race and we're still two seconds a lap slower."
The numbers don't lie and hopes of a breakthrough were dashed during Friday's practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya when Perez and Button once again languished amid the midfield runners and the long-awaited new front-wing was only trialled for the final ten minutes of the afternoon session. New parts were being flown out overnight, but Button, normally the embodiment of optimism, has already written off any prospect of fighting with the frontrunners this weekend.
"We're still a hell of a long way off the pace - I think you will see four teams who are very competitive at the front, and I don't feel we'll be one of them," Button told The Daily Telegraph. "We won't be fighting towards the front, and it's going to be quite a big gap."
Sergio Perez has admitted McLaren cannot be considered title contenders following their wretched start to the 2013 season.
With the much-hyped MP4-28 proving to be a dud on track and the team bereft of a quick fix for their problem child, McLaren, who last won the coveted Constructors' Championship as long ago as 1998, currently sit just sixth in the standings, almost one hundred points behind leaders Red Bull.
Lacking pace and consistency, such has been the scale of the MP4-28's performance deficit that neither Perez, who had scored more points this time last year with Sauber than he has with his new team in the current campaign, nor team-mate Jenson Button have yet to challenge for a podium, let alone a win.
There might still be a long way to travel in the 2013 season but, as the forlorn Mexican admitted in a press briefing on Friday at Barcelona, there is even further to go for McLaren to catch the frontrunners.
"It's not realistic to think that we are going to be fighting for the title," the 23-year-old conceded. "It's the fifth race and we're still two seconds a lap slower."
The numbers don't lie and hopes of a breakthrough were dashed during Friday's practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya when Perez and Button once again languished amid the midfield runners and the long-awaited new front-wing was only trialled for the final ten minutes of the afternoon session. New parts were being flown out overnight, but Button, normally the embodiment of optimism, has already written off any prospect of fighting with the frontrunners this weekend.
"We're still a hell of a long way off the pace - I think you will see four teams who are very competitive at the front, and I don't feel we'll be one of them," Button told The Daily Telegraph. "We won't be fighting towards the front, and it's going to be quite a big gap."
And Vettel has been told.......although I'm sure he'll have the tiniest bit of say in the matter.
Christian Horner has admitted that Red Bull will have "no shortage of choice" when it comes to deciding on Sebastian Vettel's team-mate for 2014 and insists their star driver will not dictate who races alongside him.
Red Bull have been at the centre of the early-season transfer speculation over the driver market for next year in the wake of the spectacular reopening of public tensions between Vettel and long-time team-mate Mark Webber at the Malaysian GP when the former disregarded team orders not to pass the Australian.
With Webber, who has been on a rolling one-year deal for several seasons, widely thought unlikely to extend his Red Bull stay into a seventh campaign, several drivers have been strongly mooted as potential replacements, principally Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo, and most recently and spectacularly of all, Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen.
Speaking in an interview with the official F1 website at the Spanish GP, Horner, Red Bull's Team Principal, made clear they wanted the strongest driver line-up available.
"Our objectives are very simple: we want the best two drivers in our cars," Horner replied when asked where the team were looking for candidates, and if Toro Rosso was one such place.
"If they come from Toro Rosso, fantastic as they develop nicely. But we always push to have the best two drivers available."
And then pressed on whether he could name any potential drivers in the frame, a coy Horner replied: "There is no shortage of choice."
However, despite admitting himself after the controversy of Malaysia that there had been a breakdown in trust between his drivers ever since their acrimonious collision at the 2010 Turkish GP, Horner has insisted that it nonetheless isn't in Vettel's nature to put pressure on the team over the identity of a team-mate.
"He [Vettel] is going to do the best job for himself," the Red Bull chief added.
"And to say, 'this one, yes' and, 'this one, no' was never Sebastian's style, to dictate, 'I must have this or that'. He is a sporting guy and has never pressured the team into doing things for his own benefit."
In any case, Horner made clear that decisions over their 2014 line-up would remain on the back burner for several months yet.
"It is much too early thinking about drivers for next year. Sebastian is clear - and everything else will fall into place towards the end of the summer. There is no pre-conception," he added.
Christian Horner has admitted that Red Bull will have "no shortage of choice" when it comes to deciding on Sebastian Vettel's team-mate for 2014 and insists their star driver will not dictate who races alongside him.
Red Bull have been at the centre of the early-season transfer speculation over the driver market for next year in the wake of the spectacular reopening of public tensions between Vettel and long-time team-mate Mark Webber at the Malaysian GP when the former disregarded team orders not to pass the Australian.
With Webber, who has been on a rolling one-year deal for several seasons, widely thought unlikely to extend his Red Bull stay into a seventh campaign, several drivers have been strongly mooted as potential replacements, principally Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo, and most recently and spectacularly of all, Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen.
Speaking in an interview with the official F1 website at the Spanish GP, Horner, Red Bull's Team Principal, made clear they wanted the strongest driver line-up available.
"Our objectives are very simple: we want the best two drivers in our cars," Horner replied when asked where the team were looking for candidates, and if Toro Rosso was one such place.
"If they come from Toro Rosso, fantastic as they develop nicely. But we always push to have the best two drivers available."
And then pressed on whether he could name any potential drivers in the frame, a coy Horner replied: "There is no shortage of choice."
However, despite admitting himself after the controversy of Malaysia that there had been a breakdown in trust between his drivers ever since their acrimonious collision at the 2010 Turkish GP, Horner has insisted that it nonetheless isn't in Vettel's nature to put pressure on the team over the identity of a team-mate.
"He [Vettel] is going to do the best job for himself," the Red Bull chief added.
"And to say, 'this one, yes' and, 'this one, no' was never Sebastian's style, to dictate, 'I must have this or that'. He is a sporting guy and has never pressured the team into doing things for his own benefit."
In any case, Horner made clear that decisions over their 2014 line-up would remain on the back burner for several months yet.
"It is much too early thinking about drivers for next year. Sebastian is clear - and everything else will fall into place towards the end of the summer. There is no pre-conception," he added.
Qualifying just started - let's see if the practice results continue.
Hamilton fastest in Q1, let's see if he can keep it up!
Well what a difference a year makes - this time last year Williams were on pole, this year both cars fail to make it out of Q1.
Hamilton fastest again in Q2 but Button out in 14th. Looking forward to Q3!
Rosberg on pole, Hamilton 2nd, Vettel 3rd - not a bad day for Mercedes!
Monaco GP this weekend so not much overtaking and plenty of big boats!
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