Marko Hanželic
Kimi Räikkönen opened the start of the qualifiers at the Istanbul Park race track, and the rest of the racers immediately followed him to the track. The track was dry at the start of the qualifiers, despite the fact that threatening clouds persisted in the sky.
Q1 - Schumacher progressed again in Q2
We saw quite a few traffic problems in the first part of the qualifiers, and he took care of the yellow flags Carlos Sainz, which spun in turn no. 1 and reported to the pits that the tires were on his Ferrari already fuch. He followed him with a pirouette in the first turn Max Verstappen, but they all tried to set a quick time before it would pour in Istanbul. With a time of 1: 28.047, this first succeeded George Russell.
It is during the first part of the qualifications it started to rain and there was more and more rain, and yet the times set by the racers continued to fall. On the other hand, quite a few of them also felt the ground along the track (let's just mention Mazepina in Tsunodo, which spun. An excellent time was set by Mazepin's teammate Schumacher, who eventually managed to progress to Q2, while the workday ended surprisingly for Ricciardo, and they stayed with him in Q3 Latifi, Giovinazzi, Räikkönen in mazepin.
Q2 - End for both Germans
The second part of the qualifications he decided to skip Carlos Sainz, which is understandable, as it will start completely from scratch tomorrow. Sergio Perez spun in turn no. 1, and set the best time of the first attempt with 1: 23.5 Lewis Hamilton. He spun, too Leclerc, who was in tenth place at the time.
In the end, both Germans did not make it to the top ten, then Vettel in Schumacher, and next to them they dropped out Ocon, Russell and already mentioned Sainz, who did not perform in Q2.
Q3 - Hamilton with Istanbul Park track record
After the first attempt of the third part of the qualifications, it was the best index Valtteri Bottas, who overtook his teammate Hamilton by 22 thousandths of a second, followed by Verstappen, Gasly in Perez.
It's at the end Mercedes still managed to reverse the order so that it will Hamilton, who was the fastest today and also set a track record with a time of 1: 22.868, started from 11th place tomorrow due to a penalty of ten places. He won second place Bottas, before Verstappen, Leclecom, Gasly in Alonso.
Results - Turkish GP, qualifications:
