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The Turkish Grand Prix (Turkish: Türkiye Grand Prix) is a Formula One motor race that debuted on August 21, 2005 as part of the 2005 Formula One season. It is held at the newly built Istanbul Park Circuit, constructed by famous German civil engineer Hermann Tilke. The circuit is one of four anti-clockwise circuits on the 2009 Formula One season calendar along with Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, the Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore and the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Brazil.

Turn 8 is probably the best corner on the track. It is a quadruple apex corner with a load of 5G (5 times the force of gravity) for 4 seconds. It is actually 4 corners joined together. Many drivers have found this a very tricky corner of the circuit.

Drivers Championship

1. Webber 78
2. Vettel 78
3. Alonso 75
4. Button 70
5. Massa 61
6. Hamilton 59
7. Kubica 59
8. Rosberg 54
9. Schumacher 22
10. Sutil 20
11. Liuzzi 10
12. Barrichello 7
13. Petrov 6
14. Alguersuari 3
15. Hulkenberg 1
16. Buemi 1

Constructors Championship

1. Red Bull-Renault 156
2. Ferrari 136
3. McLaren-Mercedes 129
4. Mercedes 76
5. Renault 65
6. Force India-Mercedes 30
7. Williams-Cosworth 8
8. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 4

Past Winners

Jenson Button - 2009
Felipe Massa - 2008
Felipe Massa - 2007
Felipe Massa - 2006
Kimi Raikkonen - 2005

Currently the weather in Turkey looks good. Clouds but mainly sunny. Some websites expect showers on May 24/25.. But according to the same websites the weather gets better again after that.

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Scalextric nowadays. I haven't found F1 exciting since Mansell/Prost/Senna era when there were real races. Great innovations from F1 end up in road cars, granted, but as a spectacle nowadays it doesn't do it for me

You missed a good race

Cracking incident between the red bulls.

bloody wicked race! Vettel was hot headed and was in the wrong IMO. But it looks like theirs defo favouritism in the team anyway towards the young german. Webber's done good last few races and has obviously gotten to Seb a bit!