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Occasionally, I’ll post a recap and results from a Formula One race. Here’s a recap from the Turkish Grand Prix, held the weekend of October 8-10, 2021.
Conditions:
Cloudy
40% chance of rain
Maximum Temperature expected: 21 Celsius, 68.9 Fahrenheit
Starting Grid:
* = Grid Penalty
Position
Driver
Team
1
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
2
Max Verstappen
Red Bull Racing
3
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
4
Pierre Gasly
AlphaTauri
5
Fernando Alonso
Alpine
6
Sergio Perez
Red Bull Racing
7
Lando Norris
McLaren
8
Lance Stroll
Aston Martin
9
Yuki Tsunoda
AlphaTauri
10
Sebastian Vettel
Aston Martin
11
Lewis Hamilton*
Mercedes
12
Esteban Ocon
Alpine
13
George Russell
Williams
14
Mick Schumacher
Haas
15
Nicholas Latifi
Williams
16
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alfa Romeo Racing
17
Kimi Rӓikkӧnen
Alfa Romeo Racing
18
Nikita Mazepin
Haas
19
Carlos Sainz*
Ferrari
20
Daniel Ricciardo*
McLaren
Lap 1/58 : Fernando Alonso spun off and dropped into 15th position. Proceeding his spin, Alonso bumped into Mick Schumacher who then spun off.
Lap 8-9/58 : Pierre Gasly and Fernando Alonso each received a 5-second time penalty for causing a collision.
Lap 15/58 : Current World Champion Lewis Hamilton, who started in 11th position, has worked his way up to 5th position.
Lap 18/58 : Carlos Sainz, one of the back runners, has worked his way up into 9th position.
Lap 22/58 : Daniel Ricciardo is the first to pit for a new set of intermediate tires.
Lap 24/58 : The rain has started to come down harder as Ricciardo is the only driver to have come in for new tires.
Lap 38/58 : Race leader Valtteri Bottas finally pits after leading for 38 laps.
Lap 42/58 : Mercedes tells Hamilton to come in for a pit stop but Hamilton replies “Why?” as he decides to stay out.
Lap 45/58 : The current leader, Leclerc, has locked up. Now the gap between him and Bottas is just 1 second.
Lap 47/58 : Bottas retakes the lead as Ferrari tells Leclerc to come into the pits.
Lap 51/58 : Hamilton pits and comes back out in 5th, moving Leclerc into 3rd position with Perez between the two.
Lap 58/58 : Bottas wins his 10th grand prix.Verstappen and Perez finish 2nd and 3rd, joining Bottas on the podium.
Final Results:
Position
Driver
Time/Retired
Points
1
Bottas
1:31:04.103
26
2
Verstappen
+14.584s
18
3
Perez
+33.471s
15
4
Leclerc
+37.814s
12
5
Hamilton
+41.812s
10
6
Gasly
+44.292s
8
7
Norris
+47.213s
6
8
Sainz
+51.525s
4
9
Stroll
+82.018s
2
10
Ocon
+1 lap
1
11
Giovinazzi
+1 lap
0
12
Räikkönen
+1 lap
0
13
Ricciardo
+1 lap
0
14
Tsunoda
+1 lap
0
15
Russell
+1 lap
0
16
Alonso
+1 lap
0
17
Latifi
+1 lap
0
18
Vettel
+1 lap
0
19
Schumacher
+2 laps
0
20
Mazepin
+2 laps
0