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F1 Grand Prix practice results: Hamilton fastest in Turkey
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was fastest on the opening day of Turkish Grand Prix practice at Istanbul Park on Friday, the 16th round of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship season.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Oct 8, 2021, 5:50 PM
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Hamilton was fastest in both FP1 and FP2, ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc respectively.
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Turkish Grand Prix FP1 results: Hamilton fastest from Verstappen
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 26 1'24.178 228.287 2
Max Verstappen Red Bull 24 1'24.603 0.425 0.425 227.140 3
Charles Leclerc Ferrari 27 1'24.654 0.476 0.051 227.004 4
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 28 1'24.842 0.664 0.188 226.501 5
Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 25 1'24.860 0.682 0.018 226.452 6
Esteban Ocon Alpine 30 1'24.909 0.731 0.049 226.322 7
Lando Norris McLaren 26 1'25.347 1.169 0.438 225.160 8
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 30 1'25.382 1.204 0.035 225.068 9
Fernando Alonso Alpine 26 1'25.383 1.205 0.001 225.065 10
Sergio Perez Red Bull 24 1'25.459 1.281 0.076 224.865 11
George Russell Williams 25 1'25.685 1.507 0.226 224.272 12
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 26 1'25.750 1.572 0.065 224.102 13
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 26 1'25.810 1.632 0.060 223.945 14
Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo 24 1'25.813 1.635 0.003 223.938 15
Nicholas Latifi Williams 28 1'25.863 1.685 0.050 223.807 16
Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo 24 1'25.933 1.755 0.070 223.625 17
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 29 1'26.361 2.183 0.428 222.517 18
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 28 1'26.424 2.246 0.063 222.354 19
Mick Schumacher Haas 25 1'26.636 2.458 0.212 221.810 20
Nikita Mazepin Haas 28 1'27.019 2.841 0.383 220.834 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 1?
Due to his 10-place engine-change grid penalty, Hamilton focused on soft-tyre running, working his way down to 1m24.511s as the track rubbered-in. Hamilton then put on a fresh set of softs and produced 1m24.250 and then, after another spell in the pits, he set the session-best 1m24.178s.
On his soft-tyred run, Verstappen struggled with his Red Bull’s balance – reporting “no front end” and suggested it was the tyres – and was almost half a second down on 1m24.603s. Leclerc was third, just 0.051s down on Verstappen and clearly revelling in his fresh power unit.
Valtteri Bottas was fourth in the second Mercedes, 0.6s off his teammate’s pace, ahead of Carlos Sainz (who will also take an engine change penalty on Sunday) and Esteban Ocon (Alpine), who remarkably set his 1m24.909s on hards after blowing his soft-tyre run at Turn 9.
McLaren’s Lando Norris was seventh from Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Sergio Perez (Red Bull).
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Turkish Grand Prix FP2 results: Hamilton fastest from Leclerc
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 30 1'23.804 229.306 2
Charles Leclerc Ferrari 29 1'23.970 0.166 0.166 228.853 3
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 31 1'24.214 0.410 0.244 228.190 4
Sergio Perez Red Bull 28 1'24.373 0.569 0.159 227.760 5
Max Verstappen Red Bull 27 1'24.439 0.635 0.066 227.582 6
Lando Norris McLaren 24 1'24.525 0.721 0.086 227.350 7
Fernando Alonso Alpine 21 1'24.660 0.856 0.135 226.987 8
Esteban Ocon Alpine 26 1'24.672 0.868 0.012 226.955 9
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 32 1'24.756 0.952 0.084 226.730 10
Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo 29 1'24.796 0.992 0.040 226.623 11
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 30 1'24.882 1.078 0.086 226.394 12
Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 34 1'24.903 1.099 0.021 226.338 13
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 31 1'25.020 1.216 0.117 226.026 14
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 23 1'25.060 1.256 0.040 225.920 15
Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo 27 1'25.143 1.339 0.083 225.700 16
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 30 1'25.229 1.425 0.086 225.472 17
Nicholas Latifi Williams 30 1'25.307 1.503 0.078 225.266 18
George Russell Williams 29 1'25.358 1.554 0.051 225.131 19
Mick Schumacher Haas 26 1'25.480 1.676 0.122 224.810 20
Nikita Mazepin Haas 25 1'25.698 1.894 0.218 224.238 View full results
What happened in Free Practice 2?
In FP2, Leclerc set the medium-tyre pace, beating Hamilton’s morning time with 1m24.102s, as Lewis complained his medium-compound fronts were “not working” – he was 0.099s slower after the first runs.
Teams switched to soft-tyre running just before half distance, with Hamilton setting the pace at 1m23.840s. Verstappen’s struggles continued and he only lapped within nine-tenths of his title rival.
Hamilton made a marginal improvement on his second lap, finding pace in the middle sector, lowering his P1 time to 1m23.804s. Leclerc had a big moment on his time attack on softs at Turn 9 but improved at his second attempt to 1m23.970s, 0.166s off Hamilton’s best.
Bottas was fourth tenths off the pace in third, ahead of Perez, Verstappen, Norris and Alonso. Ocon was eighth (but suffered an issue that prevented him from selecting first gear for his practice start at the end of the session), Gasly and Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi.
An understeer-plagued Gasly spun at Turn 6, while Nicholas Latifi rotated his Williams at Turn 9 early on, and again near the end, but he recovered to outpace teammate George Russell. Nikita Mazepin suffered a high-speed half-spin at Turn 8 towards the end of the session.
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