2010 marks the 60th birthday of Formula One racing, and the Bahrainis have been demonstrating all weekend just how well they can stage celebrations. It wasn’t enough to lay on a mouth-watering selection of world championship-winning cars and landmark designs – they flew in 18 world champions too for on-track cavalcades on Saturday and Sunday.

2010 marks the 60th birthday of Formula One racing, and the Bahrainis have been demonstrating all weekend just how well they can stage celebrations. It wasn’t enough to lay on a mouth-watering selection of world championship-winning cars and landmark designs – they flew in 18 world champions too for on-track cavalcades on Saturday and Sunday.

The Lotus brand lives on, and for many of the former world champions who have come to Bahrain to celebrate 60 years of Formula One racing, visiting Lotus in its new guise was something not to be missed. Although repeating the glory days will be a difficult ask for the small start-up, team principal Tony Fernandes is hungry to succeed…

At the last test session in Barcelona, Virgin’s Timo Glock correctly predicted that Saturday afternoon in Bahrain would be a short affair for him. But while Glock failed to make it through to Q2, he at least ended the season’s opening qualifying session as the fastest runner from this year’s trio of new teams…

So now we finally know the ultimate speed order of the 2010 Formula One grid, over one lap at least. Red Bull and Ferrari have the edge, and the rest of them have a mountain of varying height to scale in the run-up to the first Grand Prix to be run since Adelaide 1993 without refuelling stops

Luxury Swiss watch brand Hublot is proud to announce that it has been appointed the Official Watchmaker of Formula 1™ and as part of this multi-year agreement will produce a range of high tech, limited edition, luxury Formula 1™ watches and exploit the additional designation ‘Hublot – The Official Watch of Formula 1™’ on an exclusive and global basis…

Fernando Alonso put Ferrari at the top of the timesheets in the last practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday morning, when he used a set of the softer compound Bridgestone tyres to record a lap of 1m 54.099s. Behind the Spaniard, Nico Rosberg maintained his form with 1m 54.368s in his soft-tyred Mercedes, ahead of Mark Webber’s hard-tyred Red Bull on 1m 54.500s…

It seems seeing his car, and the iconic Lotus name, heading out on track for the first time at a Grand prix prompted the normally impassive Mike Gascoyne to come over all emotional in the pit lane on Friday morning. Lotus’s chief technical officer reveals his thoughts to Formula1.com as the Bahrain weekend gets underway…

Nico Rosberg put Mercedes GP at the top of the timesheets on Friday afternoon, ahead of McLaren, Red Bull and Williams. The young German took his Silver Arrow round the Sakhir Circuit in 1m 55.409s early in the hour-and-a-half session, with Lewis Hamilton second for McLaren on 1m 55.854s ahead of Michael Schumacher on 1m 55.903s and Jenson Button on 1m 56.076s…

Force India’s Adrian Sutil caused something of a surprise here at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit on Friday morning, when the 2010 Formula One season finally kicked off properly with the first practice session of the year. After the McLarens had set the early pace Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso redefined it with 1m 56.909s until the young German took his car round in 1m 56.583s. This was a fine effort…