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Team by team analysis of Turkish Grand Prix

Listed in championship order.

Sun, Aug 26, 2007
Reuters

ISTANBUL, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Team by team analysis of Sunday's Turkish Formula One Grand Prix (listed in championship order):

MCLAREN (Fernando Alonso 3, Lewis Hamilton 5)
Alonso celebrated his 100th grand prix with a podium. A puncture 15 laps from the end robbed Hamilton of third place and cut his overall lead to five points. McLaren are 11 ahead of Ferrari in the constructors' standings.

FERRARI (Felipe Massa 1, Kimi Raikkonen 2)
Massa repeated his 2006 win from pole position, leading Ferrari to their second one-two of the season and leapfrogging Raikkonen to go third overall. It was his fifth career win and third of the year.

BMW SAUBER (Nick Heidfeld 4, Robert Kubica 8)
Heidfeld benefited from Hamilton's puncture. Both drivers made a strong start, overtaking Alonso but pitted early. BMW's fifth double points finish in a row.

RENAULT (Heikki Kovalainen 6, Giancarlo Fisichella 9)
Kovalainen led the race for a lap during the initial pitstops. Fisichella lost out at the start when he was in a collision with Toyota's Jarno Trulli. Both drivers ran two stop strategies with a long opening stint.

WILLIAMS (Nico Rosberg 7, Alexander Wurz 11)
Rosberg moved up two places in the championship. He got ahead of Kubica at the second pitstop. Wurz gained three places from his starting position.

RED BULL (David Coulthard 10, Mark Webber retired)
Coulthard made up places at the start. Webber retired with an hydraulics failure.

TOYOTA (Ralf Schumacher 12, Jarno Trulli 16)
Trulli started ninth but was nudged into a spin by Fisichella at turn one, dropping him to the back of the field. Ralf was on a one-stop strategy.

SUPER AGURI (Anthony Davidson 14, Takuma Sato 18)
Davidson damaged his car avoiding Trulli in the first corner incident while Sato lost places.

HONDA (Jenson Button 13, Rubens Barrichello 17)
Both drivers started at the back after post-qualifying engine changes. Button had to run wide at the first corner to avoid Trulli but then overtook 10 cars.

TORO ROSSO (Vitantonio Liuzzi 15, Sebastian Vettel 19)
Vettel stalled at a pitstop, losing time, and then suffered an electrical problem with the gearbox. Liuzzi eased off to save the engine after an early fight with Davidson and the Hondas.

SPYKER (Sakon Yamamoto 20, Adrian Sutil 21)
Yamamoto took his first finish for the team. Sutil stopped on the last lap with a fuel pressure problem.

 
 
 
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