This weekend I watched both GP2 races, something I don’t usually have the time to do. I was surprised by the excitement of the racing, there was plenty of overtakes and exciting on-track battles, the former which we are getting used to in Formula 1, and, regretfully, the latter not so. Unfortunately for the first [...]

Drivers’ Championship Pos Driver Nationality Team Points 1 Sebastian Vettel German RBR-Renault 93 2 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 59 3 Mark Webber Australian RBR-Renault 55 4 Jenson Button British McLaren-Mercedes 46 5 Fernando Alonso Spanish Ferrari 41 6 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 24 7 Nick Heidfeld German Renault 21 8 Vitaly Petrov Russian Renault 21 [...]

Sebastian Vettel drove a fantastic race for Red Bull from pole to win the Turkish Grand Prix, leading throughout the entire Grand Prix, in one of the faultless drives that is fast becoming the young German’s trademark. His Red Bull teammate Mark Webber finished behind Vettel in second. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso now appears a genuine [...]

Sebastian Vettel will start from pole position for the fourth consecutive time tomorrow, taking it in emphatic style at Istanbul Park today. He will start ahead of teammate Mark Webber, with Nico Rosberg 3rd. Read on to see how qualifying unfolded, session-by-session: Q1 In Q1 it was Kamui Kobayashi who went out with the usual [...]

Turkish Grand Prix: Qualifying This is the live blog for qualifying of the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix. Here you can keep up with live commentary of the race, tweets directly and instantly from the teams and best of all, Grand Prix chat. Using the comments box when the live blog is underway, you can participate [...]

Friday Practice 1 Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps 1 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:38.670 13 2 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:40.072 1.402 14 3 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:40.132 1.462 18 4 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 1:40.338 1.668 9 5 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:40.401 1.731 10 6 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:40.421 [...]

You can now predict the Turkish Grand Prix in our Championship sponsored by Henri Lloyd, who will be providing F1 merchandise prizes for the top three finishers overall at the end of the season. The predictions form below will be open until qualifying on Saturday. Three, two, one…go! How the points are scored You predict [...]

Pirelli have announced the tyre compounds for the next three Grands Prix, in Turkey, Spain and Monaco. Istanbul Park in Turkey and the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain have high temperatures and an abrasive surface, which favours the hard tyre for endurance and the soft tyre for faster laps, while Monaco’s tight, twisty circuit means that [...]