2010 Turkish Grand Prix

2010 Turkish Grand Prix
Race 7 of 19 in the 2010 Formula One World Championship
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Track layout of the Istanbul Park Circuit.
Race details[1][2]
Date 30 May 2010
Official name 2010 Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix[3]
Location Istanbul Park, Tuzla, Turkey
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.338 km (3.317 miles)
Distance 58 laps, 309.396 km (192.250[a] miles)
Weather Air: 28 to 29 °C (82 to 84 °F) Track: 39 to 49 °C (102 to 120 °F)
Attendance 35,000
Pole position
Driver Red Bull-Renault
Time 1:26.295
Fastest lap
Driver Russia Vitaly Petrov Renault
Time 1:29.165 on lap 57
Podium
First McLaren-Mercedes
Second McLaren-Mercedes
Third Red Bull-Renault
Lap leaders

The 2010 Turkish Grand Prix (formally the 2010 Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 30 May 2010 at the Istanbul Park, Tuzla, Turkey. It was the seventh round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship and the sixth Turkish Grand Prix. McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton won the 58-lap race starting from second position. His teammate Jenson Button finished second, and Red Bull driver Mark Webber took third.

Webber clinched the pole position and maintained his lead at the start of the race with Hamilton in second who fended off a challenge from Sebastian Vettel in the other Red Bull. The order was maintained until the first sequence of pit stops when Hamilton lost second place after his crew had trouble with fitting one of his tyres correctly. Webber conserved fuel on lap 40 which allowed Vettel to challenge him for the lead but the two collided. Vettel retired and the crash promoted Hamilton and Button to first and second. Hamilton and Button were instructed to conserve fuel for the remainder of the race but the latter had not been given a target lap time and attempted to overtake Hamilton on lap 48 although the former retained the lead which he held for the remaining ten laps to win his first race of the season.

Hamilton's victory made him the fifth different driver in seven races to win a Grand Prix in 2010. The result extended Webber's advantage over second place in the Drivers' Championship, now occupied by Button, by five points. Hamilton's victory elevated him to third place, while Alonso fell from third to fourth. Vettel's retirement demoted him from second to fifth. McLaren's 1–2 finish reduced Red Bull's lead in the Constructors' Championship to one point. Ferrari fell from second to third after a poor result, with 12 races left of the season.

  1. ^ "2010 Turkish GP". ChicaneF1. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Turkish Grand Prix 2010 results". ESPN. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference results was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Turkish GP – Preview". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 25 May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 December 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2022.


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