There have been some interesting developments in our Best of the Rest Championship (where we see how the championship would look if McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari were removed) in the last few races. Unsurprisingly Robert Kubica in the Renault is the runaway leader, although after being the best of the rest in Spain [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Who was at fault for the Webber/Vettel crash in the Turkish Grand Prix? Here are the thoughts of the two involved: Sebastian Vettel “I was able to go quicker the two or three laps before. I had the corner on the left and was just trying to focus on braking point and all of a [...]
Lewis Hamilton has won the Turkish Grand Prix, with Jenson Button taking 2nd, meaning a 1-2 for the British team who go top of the constructors championship. They had some help from rivals Red Bull en route to the result though, as Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel came together and both span while leading the [...]
Red Bull continued their impressive streak of scoring pole position in every race of the season, with Mark Webber securing 1st on the grid for the 3rd consecutive time. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton will start 2nd with Sebastian Vettel 3rd. Q1 It was Sebastian Vettel who was the fastest driver in Q1, setting a 1:27.067 but [...]
Turkish Grand Prix 2010 – Qualifying
Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in the final practice session before qualifying and the race. Nico Rosberg pipped McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton for second, and it wasn’t all plain sailing for the Brit who lost time in the session after a big slide into the gravel at the notorious Turn 8 forced him to limp [...]
Ferrari will use a special livery on their car for this weekends race, celebrating their 800th Grand Prix. The 800 logo is displayed on the engine cover where the infamous Marlboro barcode used to be. A tyre deal with what we understand to be Pirelli is close to being finalised. Bernie Ecclestone said: “I think [...]
The modern anticlockwise Istanbul circuit combines some of the best corners of other tracks. The first corner for instance was inspired by the ‘Senna S’ curve at Brazil’s Interlagos circuit. But the corner which everyone talks about is Turn 8 – a ferociously fast, flat-out four-apex left hander, putting an incredible 4.5 G-force on the [...]
McLaren dominated practice in Turkey today, with Lewis Hamilton and then Jenson Button setting the fastest laps in FP1 and FP2 respectively. FP1 It was Lewis Hamilton who was the star of the show in FP1, setting the fastest time of the morning, just under a second quicker than his teammate Jenson Button. Sebastian Vettel [...]








