Drivers: 1st – Rubens Barrichello (Brawn GP), 1m 19.576s; 2nd – Mark Webber (Red Bull), 1m19.668s; 3rd – Adrian Sutil (Force India), 1m 19.912s Q: Rubens, you love this circuit.

While Brawn GP’s Jenson Button and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel were washed away during Saturday’s qualifying, their respective team mates Rubens Barichello and Mark Webber showed what they – and their cars – were made of, clinching the first row of the grid.

Thunderstorms had been predicted for Interlagos on Saturday, and the forecast proved devastatingly accurate as heavy rain turned qualifying into the longest session ever held in Formula One history.

Sebastien Buemi appeared to have the fastest time in the bag as the second practice session drew to a close in Interlagos on Friday afternoon, but Fernando Alonso had other ideas and banged in a lap of 1m 12.314s for Renault to depose the Toro Rosso driver. Buemi’s 1m 12.357s held up for second, as Mark Webber and Rubens Barrichello vaulted past Jenson Button in the closing minutes. The Australian lapped his Red Bull in 1m 12.514s to beat the Englishman’s 1m 12.523s, but the Brazilian’s 1m 12.459s aced them both…

Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello split the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel after Friday morning’s first practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos. In a session interrupted at one stage by light drizzle which rendered the bumpy track greasy as well for a while, Webber set the fastest time of 1m 12.463s, which compared with Felipe Massa’s fuel-weighted 2008 pole time of 1m 12.358s in the Ferrari…

News that Toyota’s Timo Glock is to miss this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix after his Suzuka qualifying crash comes as a bitter blow to a driver on the hunt for a fourth podium and – if rumours are to believed – a seat for 2010. But for the Japanese team’s third driver Kamui Kobayashi, Glock’s Interlagos absence represents the biggest opportunity of his motor racing career to date

Just one month after confirmation of their entry to the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, the Lotus F1 Team is already heading into the windtunnel with a scale model of their first Formula One car. The as yet undesignated model is the product of the recent collaboration between the team’s chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne and technical partners, and represents an important step in preparations for next season, as Gascoyne explains…

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Monday for the first time since fracturing his skull at July’s Hungarian Grand Prix. With the in-season test ban ruling out a run in this year’s F60, Massa used a privately-owned 2007-spec car fitted with GP2 tyres at Ferrari’s Fiorano circuit in Italy. “The moment I got into the car it was exactly like before the accident, as if nothing had happened,” the Brazilian explained…

Renault’s Romain Grosjean and third driver Lucas di Grassi took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday and Sunday for the Romanian leg of the French team’s Roadshow programme. The two-day event, which took place on a specially created 600-metre circuit along Bucharest’s famous Libertatii Boulevard, attracted over 70,000 spectators. Grosjean and Di Grassi took turns behind the wheel of last year’s Renault R28, entertaining the crowds with tricks including doughnuts, burnouts and power slides.

Although he is scheduled to get back behind the wheel of a 2007-spec Formula One car at Fiorano on Monday morning, Ferrari have confirmed that driver Felipe Massa will not return to competition this season. Massa, who fractured his skull in a qualifying crash at July’s Hungarian Grand Prix, underwent a medical in Paris on Friday and Saturday, which established that he is fit enough to return to the test track. However, the Italian team don’t want to rush the Brazilian’s return to the Formula One grid.