Formula 1 2020 Turkish Grand Prix

Hamilton clinched his seventh F1 world drivers’ title at Istanbul on Sunday, matching the all-time record that has been held by Michael Schumacher.<br>Straight after the race, as Hamilton composed himself in his car, Vettel approached the Briton and leaned in to the cockpit to offer his congratulations.<br>While the conversation was not broadcast in full on television, Vettel later ...

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Lewis Hamilton clinched his seventh Formula 1 world champion in style with a dominant victory in Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, taming tricky conditions that caught most of his rivals out.<br>A topsy-turvy Turkey weekend ended with a familiar face at the top of the podium, but the rest of the race was far from straightforward.<br>The race produced a number of big storylines that will make F1's ...

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The Red Bull driver had been one of the pre-race favourites for victory in Istanbul, with him having been dominant throughout practice and securing a spot on the front row.<br>Although a poor start dropped him down into the pack and forced a comeback, he executed a quick recovery and got on to the back of Racing Point's Sergio Perez in the early stages.<br>But a spin as he battled the Mexican ...

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F1 issued a statement on Monday following the grand prix weekend at Istanbul Park announcing that Isola, who heads up the series' tyre supplier's activities at races, had contracted COVID-19 and tested positive on Sunday.<br>But F1 has said that all of Isola's close contacts have been traced and re-tested, and have all returned negative results.<br>"The FIA, Formula 1 and Pirelli can confirm that ...

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Racing Point looked on course for a shock result at Istanbul Park on Sunday after Stroll and Perez surged into a healthy lead over the rest of the field in the opening stages of the race.<br>In low grip, rainy conditions, pole-sitter Stroll led Perez by more than 10 seconds at one stage, but came under pressure from his teammate as his first set of intermediate tyres neared the end of their ...

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Stroll led the race comfortably in the early stages on full wet tyres, but began to suffer graining in his second stint on intermediates, allowing teammate Sergio Perez to cut his advantage.<br>After a stop for a fresh set of inters Stroll's pace dropped off badly and he fell back to an eventual ninth place at the flag.<br>It was only when the car returned from parc ferme to the garage after the ...

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The recovery vehicle had been sent out to retrieve the stricken Williams of Nicholas Latifi, who had spun off at the high-speed Turn 8 in the first section of qualifying in Turkey.<br>But the Q2 session began with the crane still in front of the barriers and it only being protected by local double waved yellow flags in the slippery conditions.<br>F1 race director Michael Masi explained afterwards ...

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The Monegasque driver had recovered well from an initial poor opening phase to the race to haul himself close to second place runner Racing Point's Perez in the closing stages of the race<br>Perez, who had very worn intermediate tyres by that stage, was able to hold Leclerc back until the final lap when he made a mistake at Turn 9 and ran wide – letting his Ferrari rival through.<br>But Perez ...

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The Englishman started from 14th place in Istanbul after taking a five-place grid penalty hit for not respecting flags in qualifying.<br>He got away badly on the wet track after bogging down with an anti-stall issue that saw him drop almost to the back on the first lap, although he gained places from incidents involving Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas.<br>He then put in a storming drive to climb ...

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Hamilton clinched his seventh F1 world championship with a dominant victory in Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix, wrapping up the title with three races to spare.<br>Hamilton is out of contract at the end of the year, but he is widely expected to remain with Mercedes, with the two sides taking a relaxed approach to opening contract talks.<br>Mercedes F1 chief Wolff did not want to put a timeframe on ...

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Hamilton won a thrilling and chaotic wet race at Istanbul, where his Mercedes squad had come into the event on the back foot after struggling to get the hardest compounds of Pirelli's tyre range working on the low-grip track surface.<br>The Briton, who clinched his record-equalling seventh world title with the win, had run at the back of the pack of early race leaders – at one point dropping to ...

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A late resurfacing of the Istanbul Park circuit combined with a lack of other series running prior to F1's arrival left the track lacking grip, making it difficult for drivers to get up to speed.<br>Rainy conditions made it even more difficult for drivers throughout qualifying and Sunday's race, which featured a number of spins and mistakes through struggles for grip as tyres struggled to get up ...

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Typically the offence triggers a five-second time penalty, which would have led to him swapping his sixth place with his teammate Alex Albon, who finished 1.6-seconds behind him.<br>TV images appeared to show Verstappen crossing or at least touching the line, but after reviewing various angles, the stewards determined that the evidence was not conclusive, and thus in effect gave him the benefit of ...

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Bottas had to outscore Mercedes F1 teammate Lewis Hamilton by eight points to keep the drivers’ title race alive, but ailed to his worst result of the season, finishing 14th.<br>Bottas spun at Turn 1 on the opening lap when trying to avoid Renault driver Esteban Ocon, and then made contact with Ocon at Turn 9 on the same lap, causing both drivers to spin again.<br>It left Bottas’s Mercedes W11 ...

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Having scored his first championship with McLaren in 2008, Hamilton secured a sixth title with Mercedes in seven seasons of the hybrid era after a magnificent wet weather victory in Turkey.<br>He missed out only in 2016, when teammate Nico Rosberg triumphed.<br>A seventh world whampionship puts Hamilton equal with Michael Schumacher, who secured his final title in 2004.<br>"Where does it rank?," ...

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The Red Bull driver had been one of the pre-race favourites after dominating practice and securing a spot on the front row of the grid.<br>But it all went wrong at the start as a very poor getaway dropped him into the pack. Although he made progress to recover lost positions, a spin as he battled Sergio Perez for second forced a pitstop for fresh tyres, and effectively dropped him out of podium ...

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The seven-time world champion, who clinched the 2020 title with victory in the Turkish Grand Prix, has been surrounded by speculation about his future over recent weeks.<br>But ahead of imminent talks with Mercedes to finalise a new contract, Hamilton has said F1’s anti-racism push, plus its desire to become more sustainable, are key factors that entice him to remain a part of it.<br>Speaking ...

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Stroll took a shock pole position in rainy conditions on Saturday in Turkey, and was able to open up a 10-second lead over the field in the opening stages of the race on full wet tyres.<br>Although Stroll maintained his lead upon the switch to intermediate tyres, he saw the gap to teammate Sergio Perez narrow at the front, prompting Racing Point to bring Stroll in for a second stop with 22 laps to ...

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Hamilton had a comfortable pitstop advantage over the second-placed Racing Point of Sergio Perez in the closing laps after pursuing a one-stop strategy, but with rain expected he was asked by Mercedes to make a 'safety stop' to change his balding intermediates for a fresh set.<br>However, Hamilton opted to overrule his team and stayed out on track to win by over 30s from Perez, clinching his ...

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Perez ran in second place through the opening stages of the race behind teammate Lance Stroll amid slippery and rainy conditions at Istanbul Park.<br>Racing Point opted to pit Stroll for a fresh set of intermediates with 22 laps to go, but kept Perez out on a set of intermediates that ultimately lasted 48 laps.<br>Although Perez was powerless to keep race winner Lewis Hamilton behind him, the ...

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Vettel scored his first podium finish of the 2020 season at Istanbul Park on Sunday, snatching third place from teammate Charles Leclerc with two corners to go.<br>The German driver surged from 11th to fourth on the opening lap, and was able to avoid making any errors in rainy conditions to grab third place.<br>"It was quite intense, quite long, but good fun," Vettel said.<br>"I had a really good ...

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Lance Stroll led from pole ahead of Sergio Perez in a Racing Point 1-2, as Esteban Ocon – hit by teammate Daniel Ricciardo – and Valtteri Bottas spun off at Turn 1. Hamilton jumped up to third from sixth, but went off at Turn 12, and dropped back to sixth. Meanwhile, Bottas suffered a second spin on the opening lap.<br>Red Bull’s Max Verstappen made an awful start from the front row, but ...

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The majority of the race was led by polesitter Lance Stroll, who lost out by taking a second stop for intermediates, a strategy Charles Leclerc used to charge to third in the closing stages, which he lost to teammate Sebastian Vettel after making a last-gaps move on Perez, while Mercedes opted to leave Hamilton on a one-stopper after he had charged up the leading Racing Point cars.<br>The result ...

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The recent resurfacing of the circuit has left F1 drivers battling against tricky conditions all weekend, with cars sliding around a lot in both the dry and the wet.<br>And with the surface having had no chance to rubber in thanks to the rain that affected Saturday’s running, things are expected to be just as difficult in the race.<br>Norris fears, however, that the lack of grip is so bad ...

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Stroll capitalised on heavy rain and low grip conditions on the new surface at Istanbul Park to score his maiden F1 pole, edging out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by two-tenths of a second in Q3.<br>Stroll said after qualifying he was “shocked” by the result following struggles through practice as he became the fifth-youngest pole-sitter in F1 history.<br>But the Canadian downplayed talk of a ...

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If the team is found to have broken the parc ferme rules a possible outcome could be a pitlane start.<br>Gasly initially qualified 15th, although he gained two places when McLaren drivers Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris were both penalised.<br>It’s understood that for tactical reasons the team decided to undertake a complete change of PU elements and start at the back of the grid.<br>Such a change ...

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Racing Point's Lance Stroll will start the race from pole position following a wild qualifying session in treacherous conditions at Istanbul. Max Verstappen will line up alongside Stroll, ahead of the second Racing Point of Sergio Perez.<br>When is the Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix? <br>The Turkish Grand Prix will be held on November 15 at Intercity Istanbul Park.<br><br>Date: Sunday ...

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The drivers were released to start the session while Nicholas Latifi's car was still being recovered after the Canadian spun off towards the end of the first session.<br>After Q1 ended, a recovery vehicle was sent to crane the Williams out of the way.<br>The normal procedure is for officials on the spot to keep the Clerk of the Course in race control informed of progress and then he communicates ...

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The Canadian bounced back from a recent run of misfortune to take the top spot in the dying moments of a dramatic wet qualifying session, beating Red Bull's Max Verstappen and his own teammate Sergio Perez.<br>Szafnauer stressed that Stroll had led the way in choosing intermediate tyres for the closing minutes of Q3, a decision that paid off handsomely.<br>Perez briefly held pole but spun his ...

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Heavy rain combined with low grip levels on the resurfaced Istanbul Park circuit shook up the pecking order in qualifying on Saturday, paving the way for Lance Stroll to grab a shock pole position.<br>Mercedes slumped to its worst qualifying result since the 2013 Italian Grand Prix as neither of its cars finished inside the top five.<br>Lewis Hamilton could only take sixth place on the grid ...

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As the stewards picked their way through the various incidents in a messy qualifying that included two red flags and an hour-long Q1 session, pole-man Stroll came into the spotlight for a possible yellow flag infringement.<br>TV footage showed that Stroll's teammate, Sergio Perez, had spun ahead of him on track during his fastest Q3 lap, resulting in a yellow flag being waved at Turn 7. Stroll was ...

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The Monegasque driver and teammate Sebastian Vettel had looked on course for a decent grid slot based on the pace shown in both the dry and wet practice sessions.<br>But it all went wrong in qualifying as neither driver could get their tyres working, and Vettel ended up in P12 with Leclerc two places further back. Both will move up a position though thanks to Lando Norris’s five-place penalty ...

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For the first time here since 2011, teams were unleashed around the recently-resurfaced venue for a qualifying session – held in soaking wet weather conditions.<br>In the top-10 shootout, Red Bull's Max Verstappen set the early bar on full-wet tyres, and – despite being on a faster lap – dived for the pits when Racing Point’s Sergio Perez beat him on intermediates. Having switched to ...

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A recent resurfacing of the circuit had not had time to properly cure ahead of the Turkish Grand Prix and has left F1 drivers struggling for grip in both the dry and wet conditions.<br>With the cars lapping around eight seconds per lap slower than expected in the dry, Saturday's wet action turned into a battle for teams to get their tyres into the right operating window.<br>The strange nature of ...

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Norris initially qualified 11th for McLaren at Istanbul Park on Saturday, but was summoned to see the stewards after the session over a yellow flag infringement.<br>A number of drivers had their laps reviewed for making improvements despite yellow flags being shown at Turn 8 following a spin for Williams driver Nicholas Latifi.<br>The stewards said in a bulletin on Saturday evening that Norris had ...

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Stroll produced a shock result in qualifying at Istanbul Park on Saturday by scoring his maiden F1 pole position in wet conditions on a low-grip surface.<br>The Racing Point driver's celebrations were put on hold after the stewards summoned him shortly after qualifying for failing to slow for yellow flags during his fastest lap in Q3.<br>Stroll was alleged to have failed to slow down enough after ...

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The Red Bull driver had topped all three practice sessions – the two in the dry, but low-grip conditions on Friday and then again in the wet FP3 running on Saturday – and had topped the times in Q1 and Q2 by massive margins.<br>He also led the way after the first runs in Q3 and looked set to improve the provisional pole time before he pitted to switch to the intermediates after Racing Point's ...

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Sainz had qualified 13th after McLaren's gamble to use the intermediate tyre in Q2 didn't pay off, with teammate Lando Norris also missing the cut for Q3 in 11th position.<br>However the Spaniard is set to start the race from 16th position having held up Perez in Q2 when he rejoined the track after swapping his intermediates for extreme wets.<br>In a bulletin detailing the penalty, the stewards ...

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In a chaotic twice red-flagged session, Raikkonen and teammate Antonio Giovinazzi qualified a provisional eighth and 10th on the 500th Formula 1 grand prix for the team founded as Sauber in 1993.<br>It was the first time an Alfa had reached Q3 all season and the first time both cars had made it into the top 10 shootout since last year's Austrian Grand Prix.<br>The Swiss cars were among the few ...

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