Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has said that his Red Bull Racing team are still pushing hard to stay ahead of their rivals, despite the German comfortably leading the championship as they head to Turkey next weekend.

With time running out for the organisers of the Bahrain Grand Prix to request a new date for their postponed 2011 race, a statement from the GP chiefs and Bernie Ecclestone on Saturday shed little light on the situation.

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner believes that it is still too early to suggest that his team are in control of the 2011 Formula One championship, despite the caffeinated squad dominating the majority of the first three races.

Formula One oligarch Bernie Ecclestone has again denied that there are any plans afoot to sell off Formula One's commercial rights to the mooted NewsCorp-led takeover bid, saying that the whole issue was "media driven".

The future of the Turkish Grand Prix on the Formula One calendar is apparently still up in the air, despite initial reports that the race would drop off the schedule for 2012 due to the issue of excessive race fee requirements.

Mercedes GP driver will get a taste of what life might be like after his F1 retirement, when he embarks on a series of demo runs in a Mercedes C-class DTM car at the championship's season-opener in Hockenheim this weekend.

Mercedes GP driver Michael Schumacher has insisted that he has no plans to retire from F1 again at the end of the 2011 season, with a year still left on his contract with the team, despite renewed rumours about his future.

The McLaren Mercedes team will be hoping to keep on good performance terms with their rivals in the Turkish Grand Prix next weekend, despite only bringing some "small modifications" to their car for the race in Istanbul.

Formula One oligarch Bernie Ecclestone has suggested that the deadline for the Bahrain GP organisers to request a new date on the 2011 calendar could be extended into June, despite the ongoing political situation in the Gulf state.

2009 world champion Jenson Button has said that he will end his Formula One career with the McLaren Mercedes team, though he has insisted that he is not planning to retire from the sport for some time to come.

Toro Rosso test driver has admitted that it would be "great" if he was to get a chance to race in Formula One before the end of the current season, though the Australian has insisted that he is still focused on a 2012 drive.

The McLaren Mercedes Formula One team have dismissed a UK newspaper report dwelling on some speculative former sponsorship dealings with Libyan authorities, saying that the whole plan "never reached square one".

Team Lotus boss Tony Fernandes has refused to rule out rebranding his F1 team using his newly-acquired Caterham car name in the future, despite Wednesday's link-up announcement not including any change to the team's name itself.

Renault driver Nick Heidfeld believes that he and his team can now begin to challenge the Ferrari squad on track over the next few races, saying that the team should be looking to sustain their early "momentum" in the championship.

McLaren Mercedes technical director Paddy Lowe has bellowed that the remarkable turnaround in performance for the Woking team and their MP4-26 car was the result of "incredible teamwork" from within the squad.