A raft of updates appeared on several of the front-running cars in Valencia. As in 2009 when Brawn dominated the first half of the season with its double diffuser, Red Bull has enjoyed a similar performance advantage this year. The key difference is that in the first few races no-one could put a finger on why the RB6 was so quick

There’s much more to the Goodwood Festival of Speed than just the Formula 1 cars. Here’s a collection of my ten favourite non-F1 cars at the show this year, including some stunning Alfa Romeos, an Indianapolis 500-winning Lotus and more. Lotus-Ford 38 Lotus-Ford 38 This is the very car that Jim Clark won the 1965 Indianapolis 500 with

The second day of the Goodwood Festival of Speed saw Formula 1 drivers past and present driving a selection of spectacular racing machines. World champion Jenson Button drove Alain Prost’s McLaren which won the 1986 world championship while Mark Webber demonstrated last year’s Red Bull. Bruno Senna drove his uncle’s last McLaren and HRT team mate Karun Chandhok was at the wheel of Keke Rosberg’s championship-winning Williams.

The Goodwood Festival of Speed begins today and there are over 50 F1 cars present celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first world championship season. The picture collection below show the F1 cars’ first run up the hill this morning in front of a packed crowd. More pictures will be posted on F1 Fanatic throughout the weekend including a complete index of all the Grand Prix cars present plus some of the non-Formula 1 cars of interest.

After the confines of the Valencien streets, the Formula One calendar moves to the wide open spaces of Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. With a new circuit layout that has drawn almost universal praise from those drivers lucky enough to have sampled it, the teams cannot wait to begin their on-track preparations at what is for many their home race…

Circuit testing during an F1 season has been almost entirely banned since the start of last season But now several prominent figures in F1 have voiced a desire to bring back in-season testing in the near future.

Peter Sauber hailed Kamui Kobayashi’s performance in the European Grand Prix as “amazing”. The Japanese driver claimed seventh place after pulling off two overtaking moves in the final two laps, one on Fernando Alonso . The team owner said: I can only think of one word for it – amazing! I was obviously thrilled by his two overtaking moves at the end of the race, but what impressed me most was how Kamui mastered his long stint on the hard tyres.

The Formula One Teams’ Association expects to reduce carbon emissions in the sport by 12.4% by 2012.

Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Valencia, 2010 Having pilloried the European Grand Prix stewards in the 48 hours following the race, Ferrari have begun to tone down their criticism of Sunday’s event. Fernando Alonso was first to take a step back from his earlier criticism of the race as “manipulated”, saying “we should talk about it together in a calm way, to ensure that things like this do not happen again.” Alonso said: We were particularly unlucky in terms of the timing of when the safety car appeared on track.

Having pilloried the European Grand Prix stewards in the 48 hours following the race, Ferrari have begun to tone down their criticism of Sunday’s event. Fernando Alonso was first to take a step back from his earlier criticism of the race as “manipulated”, saying “we should talk about it together in a calm way, to ensure that things like this do not happen again.” Alonso said : We were particularly unlucky in terms of the timing of when the safety car appeared on track. It would have only needed a few seconds more or less to totally change our race.