Sebastian Vettel clocked the fastest lap in history of Albert Park, 1:23.529, in third qualifying session in 2011.

Mattia Binotto says it is their duty, as part of a global sport such as Formula One, to try to put a smile on people's faces in difficult times because of the threat of coronavirus after they managed to escape quarantine a quarter of Italy's population.

Sebastian Vettel thinks that the best time he set today doesn't mean much since the track was arguably the worst this year due to the rain which washed out all the rubber, but he is "pleased with the way testing went".

Sebastian Vettel stayed fastest by the end of the second day of the second Barcelona test after setting best time for Ferrari this year while Lewis Hamilton completed only 14 laps in the afternoon before he was hit with engine problems.

Sebastian Vettel is pleased with the first experience of the new Ferrari SF1000, which he described as a clear step forwaed compared to last year's SF90, and said that the most important thing was that they completed a lot of laps.

Second Abu Dhabi GP was also the last championship race as in 2009, but this time the championship was not decided. On the contrary, for the first time in the history of Formula 1, the title race included four drivers.

On this day in 2013 Sebastian Vettel won for the tenth time in the season and clinched the fourth consecutive Red Bull drivers'championship title. It was the sixth consecutive victory for the German driver and after he won the remaining three races in 2013, he equated the record of Alberto Ascari, who celebrated the last six races in 1952 and the first three races in 1953.

Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel set the two highest top speeds in each of the four measurements on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track  and after Verstappen's penalty for ignoring yellow flags in Q3 they will be able to control the race from the first row with the fastest car on the straights.

Sebastian Vettel believes that Ferrari has been on the upward trajectory in recent years in Mexico although Red Bull was the fastest last year and that decreasing gaps between the top three teams will make the race interesting.

Ross Brawn warns that Ferrari has a potentially 'explosive combination' of drivers after the latest controversy at the Russian GP in which the Italian team was again struggling to control its drivers.