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Red Bulls skewer each other allowing a McLaren 1-2 at the Turkish F1 GP

Red Bulls skewer each other allowing a McLaren 1-2 at the Turkish F1 GP

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Time flies when you're having fun and befor you know it, another Grand Prix race has come and gone. This time, Lewis Hamilton driving for McLaren-Mercedes claimed victory at the Turkish Formula 1 Grand Prix held at Istanbul last weekend. It was Mr Hamilton's first victory in a while (ten races). It was also a nightmare for Red Bull even though their drivers started in pole and in third position too. Hamilton started the race in second position. The nightmare was basically due to an overly enthusiastic Sebastian Vettel trying to overtake his teammate and pole sitter Mark Webber resulting in a crash.

 

Now before we get to that let's start with a bit of trivia. Istanbul F1 Grand Prix of 2010 was Ferrari's 800th race in Formula 1 by the way and they started it badly by qualifying in 8th and 12th place. So critiques and fans are thinking about what is wrong with both Alonso and Massa before the race started.

 

it was a good race for Lewis Hamilton as from the start he kept up the pressure on pole sitter Mark Webber only losing out to third position holder, Webber's Red Bull teammate, Sebastian Vettel moving into second when the McLaren pitstop crew had a small problem during the tire change.

 

Now being someone who's young, fired up and already a world champion, Hamilton continued the chase and kept up the pressure on Vettel. I suppose it was this relentless pressure and also the fact that Webber won the last two F1 Grand Prix races prior to this made Vettel try something drastic, like try fit his Red Bull into Webber's Red Bull. This impulsive action basically caused him to crash out of the race and made Webber limp his way into the pits for repair work. This unfortunate turn of events (if you looked at it from Red Bull's camp) was capitalized by both Hamilton and his team mate Jenson Button which took over first and second positions respectively.

 

Now these two world champions somehow nearly did some similar damage themselves by actually racing each other instead of pacing themselves to the end. Button actually too the lead on one occasion and they did rub into each other. But in the end, Hamilton pulled through and stayed in top position till the very end. Amazing. If both drivers of McLaren did the same mistake as the Red Bull ones then it would have been a real tale of not learning from other people's mistakes. Actually I do not think they learnt from other people's mistakes (in this case Red Bull's blunder) as they still fought for the lead. McLaren was just plain lucky in my opinion. Anyway, Lewis Hamilton claims his first victory of the 2010 season.

 

Mark Webber somehow manages to still make third, looking a little depressed ahead of Michael Schumacher (it seems that the new modifications on the Mercedes-Brawn-Petronas made recently paid off), Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. Not a bad 800th outing for Ferrari considering they started in 8th and 12th as stated above.

 

Next race: Canada 13th June 2010

 

Results

1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1h28:47.620

2. Button McLaren-Mercedes + 2.645

3. Webber Red Bull-Renault + 24.285

4. Schumacher Mercedes + 31.110

5. Rosberg Mercedes + 32.266

6. Kubica Renault + 32.824

7. Massa Ferrari + 36.635

8. Alonso Ferrari + 46.544

9. Sutil Force India-Mercedes + 49.029

10. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari + 1:05.650

11. De la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari + 1:05.944

12. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1:07.800

13. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes + 1 lap

14. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth + 1 lap

15. Petrov Renault + 1 lap

16. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1 lap

17. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth + 1 lap

18. Glock Virgin-Cosworth + 2 laps

19. Di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth + 3 laps

 

Did not finish

Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 53




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