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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg justified their pre-race favouritism with the fastest times in practice for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Friday.

In a letter to Ferrari fans ahead of Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Montezemolo also expressed concern that the rule changes could turn the likes of Fernando Alonso into 'taxi drivers' rather than racers on the limit.

Fernando Alonso's 2014 season got off to the perfect start as he set the pace in Friday's opening practice in Melbourne while others struggled.

Watch a video time lapse of the crowds entering Albert Park for the start of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Fernando Alonso's 2014 season got off to the perfect start as he set the pace in Friday's opening practice in Melbourne while others struggled.

Heading into this weekend's season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull are not feeling too optimistic about winning their fifth straight Formula One championships this year.

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After finishing runner-up in the formula one world championship to Sebastian Vettel in three of the past four years, Fernando Alonso could be forgiven for losing patience with Ferrari.

Mar.13 Formula one is staring into the unknown as the sport's revolutionary new era begins in earnest this weekend in Melbourne.

Today Shell premiered its documentary 'Horse Power' in Melbourne. Outlining the challenge Scuderia Ferrari will be facing in 2014, the two drivers Fernando Alonso and Kimi RA ikkA nen attended the exclusive media event ahead of the opening race of the new season.

Amongst the drivers who will take part in the official FIA press conference in Melbourne on Thursday will be home favourite Daniel Ricciardo.

An upbeat Fernando Alonso said on Wednesday that Ferrari is well prepared for the 2014 Formula One season, adding that he's fully motivated and ready for the new regulations.

For the past 18 years, the numbers that each team carries on their cars has been determined by constructors’ championship results.

That may not be the sound of desperation you hear coming from the engineering and design labs in Maranello, Italy, the home base of Ferrari, but it's close: The headquarters of the Prancing Horse is awash in a mix of uncertainty and anxiety, nerves and excitement as the first race of the most unpredictable Formula One season in decades approaches.

This weekend's Australian Grand Prix not only signals the start of a new Formula 1 season, but it also kicks off a new era for the sport.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso is Formula One's most marketable driver with Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel only fourth despite winning the last four world championships, according to a report published on Tuesday.

BBC Sport has examined all the data from every race between 1950 and 2013 to see if the numbers can provide an answer.

The 2014 Formula 1 season is almost here following 12 days of winter testing. Here are eight things to look forward to from the sport this year: New technology F1 has gone through a major transformation in 2014, with a number of modifications to the Sporting and Technical regulations.

Lewis Hamilton made a dramatic Formula 1 entrance in 2007, just missing out on the title in his debut season.

Last season 'Multi-21' dominated the early part of the Championship when Vettel ignored that order from the Red Bull pit wall to stay behind then team-mate Mark Webber at the Malaysian GP.