Charles Leclerc put Ferrari on pole position for their home Italian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday in a qualifying session that ended in farce and with drivers under investigation.
Sebastian Vettel trimmed Lewis Hamilton's Formula One lead to 17 points with eight races remaining.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton showed no signs of being slowed by a weekend bout of flu when he set the pace in Friday's first free practice for the European Grand Prix.
Ferrari have parted company with chief designer Nikolas Tombazis and engineering director Pat Fry, two of the men responsible for designing this year's car as the team endured their first season without a win since 1993.
McLaren have promised Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso a quicker car for the next race in Germany after losing to Ferrari for the second weekend in a row.
New boy Vettel plays down Ferrari hopes in Melbourne.
They call him the 'fastest Indian on wheels'. At 250 kmph he certainly is.
Fernando Alonso will start his home Spanish Grand Prix as Formula One championship leader for the third year in a row this weekend but with more of a fight on his hands than ever.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso expects to have more overtaking opportunities at his home Spanish Grand Prix next week as a result of changes to the Circuit de Catalunya.
Kimi Raikkonen slips into an ice car specially designed to mark the 40th anniversary of McLaren Mercedes
The timing of the news immediately triggered speculation that Frenchman Eric Boullier could be heading to McLaren, who were due to launch their 2014 car later in the day in an online presentation.
The 22-year-old Briton is the first to finish on the podium in his debut race since Jacques Villeneuve finished second in Melbourne 11 years ago.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton will start the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix from pole position after setting the fastest time in qualifying on Saturday.
Toyota's Ralf Schumacher considers himself one of the top three drivers in Formula One.
The Renault driver scored his second victory in three races to extend his lead in the Formula One world championship to 14 points.
Spain's first race winner and first F1 world champion shrugged off suggestion that he is the face of a new era.\n
The Finn pipped the seven times champion by just 0.002 seconds.
The main suspense concerns the future of Michael Schumacher, who could announce his retirement.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton stormed to his third successive pole position of the season, and third in a row in China, after edging team-mate Nico Rosberg in a front-row lockout for Mercedes on Saturday.
The Mercedes driver told reporters he would seek a clarification from race director Charlie Whiting ahead of the next race in Spain.
McLaren: Raikkonen produced a brilliant race with a two-stop strategy.
Lewis Hamilton's lap of one minute 25.892 seconds is a track record at the Silverstone circuit.
Ferrari's times were eye-catching, and quicker than anything from last year's weather-affected first four-day test at the Circuit de Catalunya.
Ferrari made a strong start to the first day of Formula One testing, on Monday, with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel top of the timesheets at lunchtime with 72 laps completed.
The 21-year-old Briton could be drafted in for next week's season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.
Mark Webber seized pole position for the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday with Red Bull team-mate and quadruple World Champion Sebastian Vettel making a rare error and having to settle for second best.
The Indian driver says he would like to take the place of Williams test driver Alex Wurz's, who has been promoted as one of the team's two race drivers.
The France-Austria-Britain sequence of races poses a fresh logistical challenge for teams hitherto committed only to back-to-back weekends, with the 21-round season hurrying to the halfway point.
India's Narain Karthikeyan finished last, at 20, with a classification time of 1:51.675
Valtteri Bottas won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday and retook the Formula One lead from team mate Lewis Hamilton after a fourth successive one-two finish for Mercedes.
The Spaniard will replace the Colombian at McLaren for the rest of the season.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won an incident-packed Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after world champion Lewis Hamilton retired early for the first time this season and an intruder set heart rates fluttering when he strolled on to the track.
Finland's Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the Russian Grand Prix on Saturday with Mercedes team mate and Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton having to settle for second place on the starting grid.
