Race, DHL Turkish Grand Prix, Istanbul Park
Vettel eases to a race win from pole to podium as other struggle to hold the line
It was the race every one will remember for all its Overtaking manoeuvers and bravehearts kissing each other's car to get the position.
The race of 2011 toys, full of little tweaks on cars, overtaking, DRS, KERS.
Almost everyman on track was overtaken atleast once except that of "Sebastian Vettel". The man is unbeatable. From Pole to podium, it seems a walk in a park for him. As no one ever closes him to get the position. With the start form the lap as he cruised his way past to lap down 11drives on track.
The race saw some of the drivers hammering down others, as the pit stop strategy became essential for win, even some of the top teams had major problem during pits also. Problem with Massa, Hamilton, Button pit stop caused them some of the points.
2011 season is a season for overtaking, excitement and new era of F1 Motorsport.
Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel won the race from start to finish without any major problem. In the race of 58 laps, there was never a moment when it looked like Vettel is not at top position. Only for a little moment after 1st pit stop, Button was leading the pack, but then no other driver could get a chance to touch that place.
There was a hard fought battle for second place in the end between Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso. Webber took the second position from Alonso on Lap 51 but had there been one or two laps into the race, it might Alonso on the 2nd position. Webber drove brilliantly to the second place, there was a mistake in the garage that could have cost him his second place, but he managed to get onto it.
Finally, Fernando Alonso eager to win was seen in his Ferrari. This was the first podium finish for Ferrari this season. As the overnight change in speed of car was unimaginable. The car was not even a competition in Qualifying to Mclaren and Mercedes also, and now even managed to challenge Red Bull.
It was a bad day for Lewis and Button afterall, as Mclaren crew were not able to hold the perfect pit stop for their team which caused them dear points. In the first pit stop, Hamilton nearly hitting Massa in pits and in the last pit stop, lost a lot of ground because of some tyre change problem and then not able to get on the pedal as Massa was getting back into the pits. Button also had problems in the pits. Button three stop strategy caused him two places.
Nico Rosberg splitted the two Mclarens for 5th position. It was not the kind of the result expected from the Mercedes. As they lost most of the ground in the middle of the race. The speed that was seen during the practice and qualifying was over with the reliability of the car, but in the end, Rosberg quite manged to get onto the fifth position. While Michael had a rough day in Turky as the 7 time world champion was involved in four or five incident of hitting the cars while they try to overtake him or viceversa. Finally he finished in 12th position without points.
Renualt have a good day as both the drivers finished in points but they have the same problem of involving in the car incidents.
It was a bright run from Toro Rosso Buemi to 9th position and Kamui Kobayashi to 10th position. Kobayashi started the race from 24th last position and managed to grab the last point.
It was not a day expected by Force India as Sutil only managed to finish 11th with Paul Di Resta is the only retirement of the day other than Timo Glock who did not start the race after Gear box problem. Force India were not in the contest for points in the race.
Perez gave a tough time to Adrian Sutil in the end but did not quite managed to get to point position.
After a good start by Williams, they were looking towards scoring their first point of the season, but only in the end they lost and Barrichello only managed to finsih 15th while Maldonado in 17th. Maldonado also served drive through penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
It looks like Lotus are gaining onto the midfielders with their constant performance ahead of the new comers.
The race saw all the drivers banging wheels to each other without any major incidents. Only few times it was seen a front wing change. It was a day of pure speed and overtaking as drivers test their adrenaline to get into scoring positions. The pit lane poker again made it really hard and confusing to guess who is winning on the strategies.
There are pros and cons of 2011 Season Changes but nevertheless, until it is pouring speed and overtakings, Fans are happy so do F1.
It seems for the first time that these changes have made race artificial as DRS made it look quite easy to overtake.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Laps | Time | Grid | Points |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull - Renault | 58 | 1h 30min 17.558sec | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | Mark Webber | Red Bull - Renault | 58 | +8.8sec | 2 | 18 |
| 3 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 58 | +10.0sec | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | Mclaren - Mercedes | 58 | +40.2sec | 4 | 12 |
| 5 |
Nico Rosberg | Mercedes GP | 58 | +47.5sec | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Jenson Button | Mclaren - Mercedes | 58 | +59.4sec | 6 | 8 |
| 7 | Nick Heidfeld | Renault | 58 | +1min 0.8sec | 9 | 6 |
| 8 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 58 | +1min 8.1sec | 7 | 4 |
| 9 | Sebastien Buemi | STR - Ferrari | 58 | +1min 9.3sec | 16 | 2 |
| 10 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber - Ferrari | 58 | +1min 18.0sec | 24 | 1 |
| 11 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 58 | +1min 19.8sec | 8 | |
| 12 |
Michael Schumacher | Mercedes GP | 58 | +1min 25.4sec | 8 | |
| 13 | Adrian Sutil | Force India - Mercedes | 57 | + 1 Lap | 12 | |
| 14 | Sergio Perez | Sauber - Ferrari | 57 | + 1 Lap |
15 | |
| 15 |
Rubens Barrichello | Williams - Cosworth | 57 | + 1 Lap | 11 | |
| 16 | Jaime Alguersuari | STR - Ferrari | 57 | + 1 Lap | 17 | |
| 17 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams - Cosworth | 57 | + 1 Lap | 14 | |
| 18 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus - Renault | 57 | + 1 Lap | 19 | |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus - Renault | 56 | + 2 Laps | 18 | |
| 20 | Jerome d'Ambrosio | Virgin - Cosworth | 56 | + 2 Laps | 23 | |
| 21 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT - Cosworth | 55 | + 3 Laps | 22 | |
| 22 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | HRT - Cosworth | 53 | + 5 Laps | 20 | |
| 23 | Paul Di Resta | Force India - Mercedes | 44 | + 14 Laps | 13 | |
| DNS | Timo Glock | Virgin - Cosworth | 0 | Gearbox | 21 | |
| Fastest Lap - Mark Webber, Red Bull - 1min 29.703sec on Lap 48 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lap Record - JP Montoya, Mclaren (2005) - 1min 24.770sec | ||||||
| F1 2011 Season Drivers Standing | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | 93 |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | 59 |
| 3 | Mark Webber | 55 |
| 4 | Jenson Button | 46 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | 41 |
| 6 | Felipe Massa | 24 |
| 7 | Nick Heidfeld | 21 |
| 8 | Vitaly Petrov | 21 |
| 9 | Nico Rosberg | 20 |
| 10 | Kamui Kobayashi | 8 |
| 11 | Michael Schumacher | 6 |
| 12 | Sebastien Buemi | 6 |
| 13 | Adrian Sutil | 2 |
| 14 | Paul Di Resta | 2 |
| Constructors Standing for 2011 Season | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Bull | 148 |
| 2 | Mclaren | 105 |
| 3 | Ferrari | 65 |
| 4 | Renault | 42 |
| 5 | Mercedes GP | 26 |
| 6 | Sauber | 8 |
| 7 | Toro Rosso | 6 |
| 8 | Force India | 4 |
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