Turkish GP Archives

Toto Wolff believes his team is ready to react for anything that comes its way

Wolff: We’re ready to react to whatever comes our way

Toto Wolff believes Mercedes are ready to react to whatever comes their way, as the team heads to Austin for the 2021 Formula 1 Aramco United States Grand Prix. The world champions arrive to the Circuit of t... Read More...

2022 Formula 1 provisional calendar released

Formula 1 today published the provisional 2022 F1 World Championship calendar with a record-breaking 23 Grand Prix schedule being approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council. The 2022 season commences ne... Read More...

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Häkkinen: Mercedes ahead of Red Bull in performance

Mika Häkkinen believes that, at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix last Sunday, Mercedes found extra in their package to move ahead of Red Bull in the performance stakes. The double F1 World Champion's observations... Read More...

Alonso: The package is lacking in all areas

After the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso claimed the Alpine A521 was lacking in all areas, leaving him frustrated and disappointed while lamenting that 'luck' has not been on his side this year. Al... Read More...

Tech Draft: Is taking risks the future of Formula 1

Several topics are still resonating after the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, the most trending of which is Lewis Hamilton's pit stop controversy. In this edition of Tech Draft, I address three of those, with one c... Read More...

James Allison discusses Lewis Hamilton 2021 Turkish Grand Prix

Allison: Lewis’s lap times were starting to get worse

Another day, another point of view on Lewis Hamilton's Turkish pitstop saga. James Allison sheds light on the matter, admitting that Hamilton's lap times were starting to get worse, which necessitated the l... Read More...

Jenson Button comments on Lewis Hamilton's race in Turkey 2021

Button: I am sure Lewis was quite frustrated

Jenson Button thinks Lewis Hamilton was quite frustrated after the miscommunication, the seven-time champion had with his Mercedes team, as to when to pit, or even whether to pit at all during the 2021 Turkis... Read More...

Martin Brundle says it was a mistake on Lewis Hamilton's part to resist his team's orders in Turkey

Brundle: It was a mistake on Lewis’ part

Ex-driver and respected Formula 1 pundit, Martin Brundle, became the latest to comment on the pit stop conundrum of Lewis Hamilton and his team, during the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, with Brundle saying it was ... Read More...

Häkkinen: Valtteri drove a perfect race, his best in F1

Double Formula 1 World Champion Mika Häkkinen hailed Valtteri Bottas' masterful display at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix,as his best victory in the top flight. Bottas powered to a commanding victory at Istanbu... Read More...

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Mazepin: Extremely sorry to Lewis but I couldn’t see

Haas rookie Nikita Mazepin continues to do himself no favours, this time around on track he nearly speared into Lewis Hamilton during the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, but did apologise after the race. When being... Read More...

Ross Brawn thinks Mercedes were right to pit Hamilton and that the driver is in a bubble.

Brawn: The driver is in a bubble

Formula 1 Managing Director - Motorsports Ross Brawn weighed in on the hot topic emerging from the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton's pit stop dilemma - hinting the team was right, as the driver is in... Read More...

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Horner: No protest but we questioned Mercedes speed

After the Turkish Grand Prix, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has questioned the newfound pace in Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton's car in particular, and apparently, he is not alone. Although Max Verstappen an... Read More...

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Tech Draft: Turkish Grand Prix wasn’t boring for me!

The big story of the 2021 Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix in much of the media has been the debate whether or not Mercedes should have boxed Lewis Hamilton. But it would be doing F1 an injustice to neglect the ... Read More...

Data Crunch Turkey: Lewis was right, no-stop may have won

Heavily worn tyres, a three-second and shrinking pit stop safety gap to Pierre Gasly, and Charles Leclerc closing fast on new intermediates, were Mercedes correct to pit Lewis Hamilton? or was Lewis right to ... Read More...

2021 Turkish Grand Prix: Driver Ratings

With conditions tricky again at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, some drivers shone, whilst others struggled on what was another wet race in this season. But with all 20 drivers finishing the race, it didn’t pro... Read More...

Lewis Hamilton says he is not furious with his team after strategy disagreement in the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix

Hamilton: It isn’t true to say I’m furious with my team

Lewis Hamilton moved to debunk claims that he is furious with his team, amid news in the press claiming that all is not good within the Mercedes camp after the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix tyre strategy disagreeme... Read More...

Wolff: Championship wide open and the fight continues

Toto Wolff was left counting Mercedes' losses after the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix, concluding things could have been far worse but insisting the world title fight, between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, rem... Read More...

Turkish Takeaways: Wingmen invade center stage

The Turkish Grand Prix served a proper show last year, with wet qualifying, a wet race and a grip-less track all ingredients for a thriller; ditto this year but despite the damp there was far more grip which ... Read More...