Webber took third behind the McLarens with a late effort on a drying track Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button headed the times after today’s second practice session in Melbourne. The pair set their times in between the two rain showers which fell at the track early in the session.

Ferrari’s long-run pace looks good once again While Robert Kubica topped the times in free practice one Ferrari once again look to have good long-run pace. And at this early stage it looks as though McLaren might have found a better set-up for Melbourne than they had at Bahrain. Take a closer look at the lap times from free practice one below

F1 raced in New York State until 1980 Bernie Ecclestone’s comments to La Gazzetta dello Sport about wanting to hold a New York Grand Prix in 2012 are an encouraging sign that he hasn’t forgotten the need for F1 to have a race in the USA. He’s been pursuing his dream of a race in the Big Apple for four decades

Bridgestone will bring a different tyre allocation to the Chinese and Monaco Grands Prix than those used in 2009. F1’s official tyre supplier has announced which compounds will be brought to rounds four to seven of the 2010 season. At Shanghai the teams will use tyres one stage harder than were provided in 2009

Alain Prost won his home Grand Prix a record six times Over the years we’ve seen how performing in front of a home crowd can inspire greatness in racing drivers.

Do the world’s best racers really need the slower cars to wave them past? I mentioned the other day that I thought one way to improve racing in F1 would be to get rid of blue flags during races, which force cars that are about to be lapped to get out of the leaders’ way. There were some strong opinions for and against the idea, so I thought it deserved an article of its own.

Red Bull enjoyed a clear performance advantage in Bahrain but lacked reliability F1 Fanatic guest writer John Beamer casts his eye over the technical changes on the cars at Bahrain. Last year the leading cars were often within a few hundredths of a second of each other. But in the first race of this year Fernando Alonso’s fastest lap was a second quicker than anyone else’s and the gap between pole sitter Sebastian Vettel fourth-placed Lewis Hamilton was 1.1 seconds

F1 2010 by Codemasters arrives for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in September Codemasters claim “F1 2010″ will be “a departure for F1 games”. F1 fans have been waiting four years for a new official F1 game for the latest generation console formats.

Don’t bother looking for Raikkonen and Piquet – they missed the event The Bahrain Grand Prix organisers brought together 18 of the 20 living F1 champions for a special event to mark the 60th anniversary of the world championship last weekend. Between them these 18 drivers won 36 world titles and 391 races – that’s almost half the 821 F1 championship races since 1950. The oldest of the living champions is Australian Sir Jack Brabham.

Review the Bahrain Grand Prix with F1 Fanatic’s complete coverage Find out the F1 Fanatic Bahrain Grand Prix coverage in one place below – from the first sight of the 2010 season’s new cars through to detailed analysis of how every driver fared in Sunday’s race. Race Bahrain Grand Prix pictures Alonso heads one-two on Ferrari debut – Perfect start for Ferrari as reliability trouble hits Red Bull again. Bahrain Grand Prix in pictures – The race from start to finish in 77 hi-res pictures.