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Formula 1
Turkish GP
2010 Turkish Grand Prix Race day at Istanbul Park
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Lap 8: Petrov and Sutil are now closing on that scrap between Rosberg, Kubica and Massa to make a five-car train.
Lap 8: De la Rosa is 13th and dropping back from the Ferrari, with Alguersuari 14th and Liuzzi 15th. Barrichello in 16th is concerned that his rear wing may be broken.
Lap 7: The lead gap is just 0.4 seconds as Hamilton harries Webber.
Lap 7: Outside the top ten we have Kobayashi hanging on to 11th place with Alonso unable to make an impression so far.
Lap 7: Hamilton, Vettel and Webber are trading the fastest lap with the McLaren fastest last time around.
Lap 6: Hulkenberg has passed Di Grassi and then quickly sees off Chandhok in Turn 8. The Williams is now up to 21st place.
Lap 6: Meanwhile, Kubica is tailing Rosberg's Mercedes in a battle for sixth, with Massa right behind them.
Lap 6: Vettel in third and Button in fourth continue to catch the lead battle, which could soon be a four-way fight.
Lap 6: Bruno Senna is another who made a very good start. He is 19th at the moment, benefitting from those two pitstops, but he also nailed Glock somewhere in the opening lap.
Lap 6: Hamilton is looking very racy here but loses out heavily as the Red Bull flies through Turn 8.
Lap 5: Hulkenberg will be the next driver on the move at the rear of the field. He is 23rd and about to catch the Chandhok-Di Grassi battle for 21st.
Lap 5: Hamilton is just half a second behind leader Webber, with Vettel closing slightly on the pair.
Lap 5: Kubica and Massa also had a very close dice in the opening corners but continued without damage.
Lap 4: Replays of the start show the McLarens struggled off the dirty side and both were beaten to the first corner but fought back bravely on the first lap.
Lap 4: Hamilton is eyeing that signature move into Turn 12 and the McLaren is right with the leader once again.
Lap 4: Jarno Trulli has made a brilliant start, passing Barrichello in the confusion in Turn 1. Barrichello takes 16th place from the Lotus driver.
Lap 3: Behind the Mercedes pair, Kubica is seventh followed by Massa, Petrov and Sutil.
Lap 3: Fernando Alonso has passed De la Rosa for 12th position. He is now right on the tail of the other Sauber of Kobayashi.
Lap 3: Hamilton is right on the gearbox of the Red Bull at Turn 12 and a fight for the lead is on in Turkey.
Lap 3: Buemi rejoins in last position after a change of tyres.
Lap 2: Hamilton is not letting Webber get away and is under a second behind the leader.
Lap 2: Hulkenberg rejoins but Buemi is into the pits with a puncture on the Toro Rosso.
Lap 2: So up front it is back to grid order with Webber from Hamilton, Vettel, Button, Schumacher and Rosberg after a frantic opening lap.
Lap 2: Hulkenberg pits the Williams at the end of the first lap. It appears that he made contact with Sutil in Turn 1.
Lap 2: Button wants his place back too and the McLaren man is around Schumacher with a great move at Turn 12.
Lap 1: Fernando Alonso has made a poor start in the Ferrari and runs in 13th in the early going.
Lap 1: Hamilton fought back bravely on Vettel at Turn 4 and is back in pursuit of leader Webber.
Lap 1: Through Turn 8 it is Webber from Hamilton, Vettel, Schumacher Button and Rosberg.
Lap 1: Hamilton retakes second from Vettel out of Turn 3 as the fight begins.
Lap 1: Webber sprints away and is into Turn 1 first with Vettel up there in second ahead of Hamilton.
Lap 1: The five red lights go out and we are racing in Turkey!
The front few rows are in position and the field is forming up nicely.
We await the lights ...
We await the lights ...
He makes the turn for home and Webber begins to move towards pole position.
Working hard to get racing temperature into the tyres and brakes, Webber begins to slow the pace down approaching the final corners.
There are a lot of marbles off line in Turn 8, deposited by the GP2 and GP3 support races earlier this morning.
Webber leads them through the high-speed Turn 8 and down the hill towards the final portion of the lap.
All 23 cars down there on the grid get away, with Lucas di Grassi to start from the pitlane.
Fernando Alonso, in 12th, is matching the top ten runners by starting on the softer tyre.
The formation lap gets underway and Mark Webber leads the 23 cars round on the final lap before the start of the race.
The engines fire with just a minute to go now before the cars roll off the grid.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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