Force India leave Shanghai empty handed this evening after Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg could finish only P12 and P15 in today’s Chinese Grand Prix.

Williams gave their team principal an early birthday present today in China by scoring their first double-points finish since the Korean Grand Prix in 2010.

Red Bull enjoyed an eventful afternoon at the Chinese Grand Prix but eventually managed to come away from Shanghai with 22 points after Mark Webber finished fourth and Sebastian Vettel came home fifth.

Nico Rosberg wins the Chinese Grand Prix for Mercedes by 20.6 seconds from Jenson Button

With Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez starting the Chinese Grand Prix from third and eighth places, Sauber were expecting to score a points haul in Shanghai. However, the Hinwil-based team leave China with just a single point from Kobayashi’s tenth place finish.

Toro Rosso had a difficult grand prix in China today, failing to trouble the top ten and only finishing ahead of the likes of Caterham, Marussia and HRT.

The two Caterham drivers had differing emotions after the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai today: Vitaly Petrov was celebrating a decent driver to eighteenth place whilst Heikki Kovalainen was disappointed after finishing twenty-third and last of the race finishers.

Nico Rosberg made good use of his maiden pole position to take his first grand prix victory today in Shanghai and give Mercedes their first victory as a works team since 1955.

It was a busy day at the far end of the pit lane for Marussia who, faced with some balance problems in the final practice session in China this morning, had to implement some quick fixes in time for qualifying this afternoon.

HRT had no problem getting within the 107% time required to qualify for the Chinese Grand Prix 2012, although Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan will start from the back row of the Shnghai grid in tomorrow’s race.

Williams have said that they are confident of performing well in the Chinese Grand Prix tomorrow after Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna qualified thirteenth and fourteenth respectively today in Shanghai.

Lewis Hamilton was full of congratulations for Nico Rosberg this evening after the German claimed his first F1 pole position with an excellent qualifying lap today in Shanghai.

The Force India duo of Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg had to settle for just P15 and P16 on the Shanghai grid today after what Hulkenberg described as a ‘tough’ qualifying session for the team.

Kimi Räikkönen said that he was disappointed with the best lap time he set during qualifying today in Shanghai, despite the fact that it was good enough for fifth place in that session.

Following on from their epic Sunday in Malaysia, Sauber impressed once again today by claiming an excellent qualifying result in China.

  Ferrari managed to exactly replicate their qualifying result from Malaysia today in China as Fernando Alonso once again claimed ninth place…