Fernando Alonso underlined Ferrari's tag as favourites for victory at the Bahrain circuit by flying to the quickest time in the Saturday practice session, fending off stiff competition from the Red Bull and Mercedes teams as he did so.

The teams have one final hour on track to perfect their car set-ups ahead of the qualifying session later on today. Follow the action from the potentially almost-interesting Saturday practice session right now with The Head's minute-by-minute report.

Germany continued its dominance of F1 2010 after Adrian Sutil topped FP1.  Mercedes and Nico Rosberg led the way in FP2 to send a message out to his more illustrious team mate Michael Schumacher as McLaren continued to quietly impress.

The Friday action continued over in Bahrain, as the drivers headed back out for the second of Friday's pair of practice sessions. Relive all the slightly dull lappery from F1's great and good (and not so good) with The Hand's minute-by-minute report.

For all the focus on McLaren's revolutionary rear wing, it was another Merc-powered star in Adrian Sutil who led the timing charts of the new decade of F1.  All four world champions finished in the top 10, with Michael Schumacher struggling in 10th.

The 24 drivers in the 2010 F1 championship hit the dusty desert track for the first time over in Bahrain to kick start a brand new season. Relive all the action from the opening practice session with The Hand's minute-by-minute report.

After a long and incident-packed winter, the F1 teams finally get back to the racing this weekend at the Sakhir circuit, for what promises to be one of the naffest season openers since the last time we didn't start in Melbourne. Huzzah!

The final part of PatroniseF1's epic prediction article, and indeed the final part of the almost-epic season preview altogether is here, full of more theories and guesswork for you all to mock us for at the end of the season.

The start of the new season is now roaring towards us like a bit roaring thing, and so it is time for PatroniseF1's merry and numerous band of writers to put their lack of reputations on the line and predict a few things about the season ahead.