Jenson Button won the 2009 Turkish Grand Prix, his 6th win this season. Red Bull drivers took over the rest of the podium – Mark Webber finished 2nd, Sebastian Vettel 3rd. Toyota returned to the points with Trulli 4th and Glock 8th. Robert Kubica scored his first 2 points of the season for 7th place. [...]
2009
2009 Turkish GP – Post qualifying weights
FIA released the post qualifying weights short while ago. It looks like Jenson Button will pit 2 laps later than Vettel and a lap later than Barrichello. Webber may stop on the same lap as Button. The lightest among the top 10 is Fernando Alonso, likely to stop on about lap 13.
Sebastian Vettel – [...]
2009
2009 Turkish GP – Qualifying – Pole for Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel will start the Turkish Grand Prix from the pole position. Next to him on the front row will be the championship leader Jenson Button. Their team mates will form the row 2 – Rubens Barrichello P3 and Mark Webber P4. It will interesting to see what are the fuel levels of Brawns and [...]
2009
2009 Turkish GP – Saturday practice – Massa fastest
The final practice for the Turkish GP is over. Felipe Massa was the fastest man on the track, the only one in 1:27s. Toyota cars seem to be doing much better than 2 weeks ago in Monaco – Trulli was second, just ahead of his team mate Timo Glock. Robert Kubica’s 5th best time may [...]
2009
2009 Turkish GP – Friday Practice
The Turkish GP weekend has started with Friday practice. Nico Rosberg was the fastest driver in the first session ahead of Hamilton, Trulli, Vettel, Massa and Nakajima. The session was red flagged for a while when the green carpet (astroturf) ripped away by cars going wide had to be fixed.
Heikki Kovalainen posted the fastest time [...]
2009
2009 Turkish GP Preview
After rather quiet F1 week the racing is about to return. The fifth Turkish F1 Grand Prix is on this weekend. The inaugural race in 2005 was won by Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren that time). But from then on it was all about Felipe Massa who went on to win the Istanbul Park race in 2006, [...]
2008
The most recent same track wins hattricks
Felipe Massa’s Turkish GP win last weekend was his third in a row on the Istanbul track. I wrote in my previous post that this the first time this has happened since Michael Schumacher… Well I was not exactly right …
Michael Schumacher’s most recent hattrick of wins on the same track was his United States [...]
2008
Turkish F1 GP 2008 – Wolf’s Race Review
First point to make about this race is – the race had flying start (see the picture above). Second – we actually had a race. There were cars that raced each other ! Third point to make about this race is a question – would Lewis Hamilton even start the race under 2005 rules that [...]
2008
2008 Turkish GP – Race Result – Massa’s Turkey Hattrick
Felipe Massa made full advantage of his pole position and strange 3 pit stop strategy of Lewis Hamilton and won his 3rd Turkish Grand Prix in a row. Lewis Hamilton split 2 Ferraris and finished second ahead of championship leader Kimi Raikkonen. Solid race for Kubica and Heidfeld, points again for Webber, Alonso and Rosber. [...]
2008
2008 Turkish GP – Live Blog – Race Day
Welcome to the Live Blog coverage of 2008 Turkish GP Formula One race !
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Force India
2008 – Turkish GP – Force India Party
A bit of refreshment before the Turkish GP Formula 1 race. Vijay Mallya has been known for his lavish parties and his Kingfisher party last year in Monaco was said to be The party to attend. There are still 2 weeks to go before Monaco but the European Party season has already began for Force [...]
2008
2008 Turkish GP – Qualifying – Massa on pole
Felipe Massa will start the Turkish GP from pole position, as predicted by many people on this site . His neighbour on front row will be Heikki Kovalainen. Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen will line up on second row. There are suggestions that Kimi might have been slowed down by Alonso… I haven’t [...]
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