Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas nearly led start to finish in winning a wet 2021 Turkish Grand Prix with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen finishing a distant second and Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate, Sergio Perez, claiming the third and final podium position. On a slightly rainy day with a wet track, all cars started and finished the race […]
Mercedes’ seven-time defending Formula One world champion, Lewis Hamilton, was fastest in the qualifying session for tomorrow’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix but it will be his Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas, who will be sitting on the pole position as Hamilton must take a 10-place grid penalty for swapping in a new internal combustion engine component. […]
Conditions were wet for the third and final practice session for tomorrow’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix and AlphaTauri took advantage of the situation – with Pierre Gasly doing the honors – while Mercedes’ seven-time defending Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton mostly took the day off.
Mercedes was fastest again in the second practice session for this weekend’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix with seven-time defending Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton doing the honors.
Mercedes was fastest in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix as defending seven-time Formula One world champion and current driving championship leader Lewis Hamilton was nearly a half-second faster than his Red Bull rival, Max Verstappen – however – Hamilton will be receiving a 10-place grid penalty on Sunday for […]
Mercedes’ seven-timed defending Formula One world champion and current F1 driver’s championship leader, Lewis Hamilton, will be assessed with a 10-place grid penalty at Sunday’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park. Hamilton is being assessed with the penalty after taking on an engine component which amounts to a fourth engine – one more than […]
Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, Jr. has been relegated to the back of the grid for this weekend’s 2021 Turkish Grand Prix after incurring a penalty for putting a new engine in his car. Sainz, Jr.’s car is now over the permitted allowance of engine units for the 2021 Formula One season. Sainz Jr.’s Ferrari teammate […]
Formula One continues to play musical chairs with the calendar as the the 2021 version of the Turkish Grand Prix – initially added as a replacement for the cancelled Canadian Grand Prix, then cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic – has been added again to the calendar, this time on October 3, 2021, as […]
As expected, the 2021 The Turkish Grand Prix has been cancelled due to travel complications/restrictions caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic after Turkey was hit by a recent surge in cases. The race will be replaced by a second race in Austria to be held the week before the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix. The 2021 […]
Formula One has announced that the 2021 Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal has been cancelled and will be replaced by the Turkish Grand Prix on the original June 13, 2021, date at Turkey’s Istanbul Park track. This marks the second consecutive year that the Canadian Grand Prix has been cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 […]
The third practice session for tomorrow’s 2020 Turkish Grand Prix was mostly a washout as none of the teams could get more than 15 laps in on the track as a deluge of rain consistently poured down throughout the day. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was able to grab the fastest time again in what few […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was fastest again in the second practice session for this weekend’s 2020 Turkish Grand Prix as the track dried out from the first session and teams threw on the soft tires. There was still plenty of spinning out, but, predictably, lap times came tumbling down – Verstappen’s fastest time dropped seven […]
Newsflash! Mercedes was not the fastest car in a practice session for a grand prix this year! Of course, there is a caveat – the track at the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix was as slippery as a wet eel, so six-time defending champion Lewis Hamilton elected to mail it in for his first outing on […]
Perennial backmarker Williams announced that they have identified an undisclosed number of positive cases of Covid-19 virus accumulated from both the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix as well as the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Williams did not identify the specific members of their team who contracted the virus but did say that “several members of […]
A week after losing the Malaysian Grand Prix it appears as though the Turkish Grand Prix might be its replacement on the Formula One racing calendar as Turkish president, Tayyip Erdogan and and F1 CEO Chase Carey have reportedly “agreed in principle” to holding the race. Before departing due to financial reasons, the Turkish Grand […]
An already crowded 2016 Formula One calendar with 21 races could get another after Turkish officials met with Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and announced that – pending governmental elections on November 1, 2015 and government approval – Turkey could be the host to a 22nd race next year. Turkey previously hosted a grand prix […]