A Spin in Time
Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix featured an unexpected protagonist: Toro Rosso's Tonio Liuzzi. With his spin on lap 12, the Italian changed the outcome of the race and, Richards Barnes says, maybe even the championship
A betting man would have received very favourable odds on neither Michael Schumacher nor Fernando Alonso winning either the Hungarian or Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix. Predicting Honda's Jenson Button for victory in Hungary would have seen those odds lengthen considerably.
Felipe Massa's maiden victory in Turkey was more in line with the form book. Nevertheless, especially in the context of a tense and tightening championship battle, few would have foreseen a Ferrari victory for anybody other than Michael Schumacher at this stage of the season.
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