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May 31st, 2010 at 11:55pm
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Both cars were hit by fuel system problems during the race.
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Karun Chandhok |
Bruno Senna |
| Qualifying position |
24 |
22 |
| Qualifying time comparison (Q1) |
1′32.060 (+0.794) |
1′31.266 |
| Race position |
20 |
|
| Average race lap |
1′37.936 (-0.243) |
1′38.179 |
| Laps |
52/58 |
46/58 |
| Pit stops |
1 |
1 |
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Karun Chandhok
For the second race in a row Karun Chandhok was a classified finisher despite have stopped.
This time a fuel system problem ended his race. He was running ahead of the delayed Lucas di Grassi at the time.
Compare Karun Chandhok’s form against his team mate in 2010
Bruno Senna
Qualified ahead of di Grassi thanks to the Virgin driver suffering engine problems in qualifying.
Senna passed the other Virgin of Timo Glock and kept his rival behind for almost 20 laps. The fuel problem ended his race early too.
Compare Bruno Senna’s form against his team mate in 2010
By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:55pm
Under Racing
Sauber finally achieved their first double finish of 2010 – and scored their first point as well.
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Pedro de la Rosa |
Kamui Kobayashi |
| Qualifying position |
13 |
10 |
| Qualifying time comparison (Q2) |
1′27.879 (+0.445) |
1′27.434 |
| Race position |
11 |
10 |
| Average race lap |
1′32.992 (+0.005) |
1′32.987 |
| Laps |
58/58 |
58/58 |
| Pit stops |
1 |
1 |
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Pedro de la Rosa
Felt the car’s balance improved as the race went on – but didn’t want to risk a tangle with his team mate:
Certainly I would have been fighting at the end if it hadn’t been my team mate in front of me. Our team needed desperately to bring both cars home and score this point. You have to be careful taking risks and this was not the time to attack and risk losing everything. It is better this point stays with us rather then going somewhere else. We finished this race being competitive and this is very good.
Pedro de la Rosa
Compare Pedro de la Rosa’s form against his team mate in 2010
Kamui Kobayashi
Made it into Q3 with a lap almost half a second faster than his team mate in Q2.
Adrian Sutil passed him on lap two, and though an early pit stop helped him get the place back he was jumped by Fernando Alonso.
Kobayashi was not as happy with his tyres at the end of the race as de la Rosa was and he was passed by Sutil again:
The car was better on the harder tyre compound, therefore we did a very short first stint on the softer ones. I pitted after ten laps and drove the rest of the race with the same set of tyres. In the end I could see from the car the canvas on the front right tyre. Therefore I started to be very careful, especially in turn 8, and that’s also the reason why I didn’t defend any harder against Adrian Sutil.
Kamui Kobayashi
Vitaly Petrov’s tangle with Alonso promoted Kobayashi to tenth, scoring his and Sauber’s first point of 2010.
Compare Kamui Kobayashi’s form against his team mate in 2010
2010 Turkish Grand Prix
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:55pm
Under Racing
Virgin did not seem to have an answer for Lotus’s pace at Istanbul – Glock was half a second slower than Jarno Trulli in qualifying.
But the race saw a reversal of the teams’ usual fortunes this year as neither Lotus made the finish and Virgin just managed to get both cars to the chequered flag.
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Timo Glock |
Lucas di Grassi |
| Qualifying position |
21 |
23 |
| Qualifying time comparison (Q1) |
1′30.744 (-1.245) |
1′31.989 |
| Race position |
18 |
19 |
| Average race lap |
1′37.146 (-0.523) |
1′37.668 |
| Laps |
55/58 |
55/58 |
| Pit stops |
1 |
1 |
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Timo Glock
Glock bogged down at the start and his anti-stall kicked in, allowing Bruno Senna to pass. Glock took the place back on lap 19 but by the Lotuses were ten seconds ahead and he wasn’t able to make any inroads on their progress.
Their retirement left him comfortably ahead in the battle for new team honours until a failure five laps from home left him stuck in fifth gear and without any hydraulics. He dragged the car home and, despite losing over 15 seconds per lap, stayed ahead of his team mate. It might have been a different story had the race lasted two laps longer.
Compare Timo Glock’s form against his team mate in 2010
Lucas di Grassi
Engine problems in qualifying left him 23rd on the grid – and he wasn’t able to take up that place after an oil leak forced last-minute repair work by the team. Despite starting from the pit lane, di Grassi reached the end of the race.
Team principal John Booth paid tribute to the mechanics for getting di Grassi’s car ready in time:
After the power loss issue with the engine yesterday [Saturday], the very last thing we needed just an hour before the race was an issue with the engine oil system, which had us taking the car to pieces to get to the engine when we would have been in the final throes of our race countdown.
On one side of the garage we were calmly executing the grid sequence with Timo, but it was quite a different story on the other side of the garage where the guys were faced with the seemingly impossible odds to get Lucas’ car together and out into the race. They were an absolute credit to us today
John Booth
Compare Lucas di Grassi’s form against his team mate in 2010
2010 Turkish Grand Prix
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:55pm
Under Racing
Red Bull Racing has its own versions of the drivers’ reactions to the Turkish Grand Prix up, and I think it’s safe to say they are buffed and polished for our benefit.
The best “over the top” reaction I’ve seen to the whole incident is at the Telegraph, which took Mark…
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:55pm
Under Racing
F1.com released a Q&A with Red Bull’s motorsport consultant Marko Helmut today and as Dietrich Mateschitz’s right-hand man in the pit lane, he seems to be nonplussed with the whole situation in Sunday’s race in Istanbul. An almost guaranteed 1,2 for Red Bull turned into a…
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:09pm
Under Cars
Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Etc., Videos, Chevrolet
2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS with the switches - Click above to watch video after the jump
Chevrolet products are no strangers to hydraulics, but models that get the height-altering technology usually go by names like Impala or Caprice, not Camaro - and they are usually decades old, not 2010 models.
We say ‘usually’ because apparently an Arizona lad has gone and thrown some extra pistons underneath his gunmetal gray Camaro SS, and the result is a pony car that goes from limbo to lofty in a couple of secs. It nothing else, we can’t help but think it’d make a great doppelganger Decepticon for Transformers 3. Follow the jump to check out the vid, but sadly, there’s no three-wheel motion on display
[Source: YouTube via Tampa Examiner]
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 11:02pm
Under Racing
Amid all of the Turkish GP furor and accusations, comes a charming tale of former FIA president Max Mosley accusing Ferrari of trying to “fix” the sport of F1. Our monthly Mosley radar went off when the Daily Mail published a story with the accusations:
‘Luca does have this silly…
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 07:40pm
Under Racing
I’m going to give a rare “tip of the hat” to the official Formula 1 site for suggesting this idea: “the real story was the fact that Red Bull’s opposition – notably McLaren – has closed the gap on the once dominant team.”
Interesting, indeed.
On one basic…
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 07:24pm
Under Racing
You may have missed this in all the Red Bull Racing crashes, recriminations, re-recriminations and attempts at damage control.
Ferrari had another lousy weekend.
So what’s up at Maranello?
Well, Fernando Alonso, who said before the Turkish Grand Prix that he and the team both needed to avoid…
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By Mikel
May 31st, 2010 at 07:00pm
Under Motorbikes
Time to honor the fallen and disappeared - The Rolling Thunder motorcycle parade.
Probably one of the few times motorcycle riders are seen in a positive light.
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