Jenson Button described scoring a podium finish in Brazil today as ‘a great way to end the year’. The Brit took third place from Fernando Alonso about ten laps from the end of the grand prix, and finished in that position, behind the two Red Bull drivers.

Renault may have had a difficult final seventeen races this season, but they rounded it off with Vitaly Petrov scoring a point – the teams first in four races – at the final race in Brazil today.

Virgin Racing have announced that French rookie Charles Pic will partner Timo Glock at the team for next season. The 21-year-old, who was with the team for the Young Driver Test in Abu Dhabi earlier this month, will replace Belgian driver Jerome D’Ambrosio.

Both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa are hoping that 2012 will bring them a better car after they finished the final race of the 2011 season fourth and fifth respectively.

Toro Rosso went to the Brazilian Grand Prix hopeful of overtaking Sauber and securing seventh in the constructors’ championship but, after Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi finished eleventh and twelfth today in Interlagos, and thus scored no points, they must settle for eighth.

Mark Webber was victorious at the Brazilian Grand Prix – the final race of the 2011 season. He finished 16.9 seconds ahead of Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who was second. Jenson Button was third.

Mark Webber took advantage of a gearbox problem for Sebastian Vettel at the Brazilian Grand Prix to take his first victory of 2011. The world champion still finished second though; with Jenson Button joining the Red Bull drivers on the podium after a late overtake on Fernando Alonso.

Martin Brundle has today announced that he will be moving from the BBC to Sky for next season, confirming recent speculation in the press.

Bruno Senna impressed his home fans today in Brazil after getting his Renault through into Q3 and qualifying ninth for tomorrow’s grand prix.

Although they failed to qualify either car on the front row in Brazil, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh is confident that both Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton can challenge for victory at Interlagos tomorrow.

Fernando Alonso claimed fifth place in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix today in Interlagos – a grid position he has now occupied for nine of the nineteen races this season.

Sebastien Buemi did not complete a single lap during the final free practice session in Brazil this morning, but qualified fourteenth this afternoon ahead of both Sauber drivers, who are Toro Rosso’s main rivals for the weekend.

Sauber will be hoping for rain during tomorrow’s Brazilian Grand Prix as another tricky qualifying session today leaves Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez starting from sixteenth and seventeenth on the Interlagos grid.

Force India enjoyed another good qualifying session today in Brazil as Adrian Sutil secured eighth place on the Interlagos grid and Paul di Resta qualified eleventh.

Team Lotus had what Mike Gascoyne described as ‘a strong end to qualifying for this season’ in Brazil today as Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli took their somewhat traditional grid slots of nineteenth and twentieth respectively.

HRT are tonight celebrating a good qualifying session by their standards after both Vitantonio Liuzzi and Daniel Ricciardo out-qualified the two Virgin Racing drivers.