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Technical Review: Turkey 2005

Fresh from the summer break, the teams were faced with the challenge of running on a brand new circuit, which tested the cars' setup, the tyres' endurance, and the drivers' patience. Craig Scarborough looks at the technical problems and solutions seen at Istanbul

As the teams came back from their summer holiday, the Grand Prix circus recommenced at the new Turkish circuit near Istanbul. This meant the teams had to understand the track's layout and use what little data is available to establish a base setup for the cars.

While the track eventually presented a truly challenging layout, with inspiration taken from a range of current circuits, the teams appeared to have been conservative with the solutions they brought to turkey. There were no truly new solutions and only variations on existing designs were introduced.

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