McLaren’s ‘F-duct’ air inlet and rear wing system is working well on the long straights of Malaysia’s Sepang circuit.

Geoff Willis’ time at the struggling new HRT team may be coming to a short-lived end.

As the paddock empties at Sepang long after darkness fell on Friday night, more details about F1’s possible new tyre formula emerged.  

TEAM PRINCIPALS: Tony Fernandes (Lotus), Heikki KOVALAINEN (Lotus), Vitantonio LIUZZI (Force India), Otmar SZAFNAUER (Force India)  

Michael Schumacher on Friday warned that Mercedes is unlikely to be setting the pace in formula one for some time yet.  

Friday’s meeting with Bernie Ecclestone involving all the team bosses was almost exclusively about the tyre supplier situation for 2011.  

Lotus team boss Tony Fernandes on Friday refused to confirm speculation Fairuz Fauzy will race a green T127 sometime in 2010.  

After setting pole and leading in both Bahrain and Australia, Sebastian Vettel said he is not “100 per cent happy” after Friday practice for the third round of the world ...