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F1 Grand Prix race results: Bottas wins Turkish GP
Valtteri Bottas won the Turkish Grand Prix at Istanbul Park on Sunday as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen finished second to take the F1 World Championship lead from Lewis Hamilton, who finished fifth.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Oct 10, 2021, 3:02 PM
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Bottas held the lead at the start from Verstappen and he ran the front for the majority of the race but had to pass Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for victory in the closing stages, as Leclerc attempted to stay out on the intermediate tyres that he’d started on.
Bottas won by over 14s from Verstappen with fastest lap, while Sergio Perez finished third in the second Red Bull. Leclerc finished fourth from Hamilton, the latter charging up from 11th to third, but was angry that his team called him in for a stop when he wanted to stay out until the end.
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2021 Turkish Grand Prix race results
Cla Driver Laps Time Gap 1 Valtteri Bottas
58 1:31'04.103 2 Max Verstappen
58 1:31'18.687 14.584 3 Sergio Perez
58 1:31'37.574 33.471 4 Charles Leclerc
58 1:31'41.917 37.814 5 Lewis Hamilton
58 1:31'45.915 41.812 6 Pierre Gasly
58 1:31'48.395 44.292 7 Lando Norris
58 1:31'51.316 47.213 8 Carlos Sainz Jr.
58 1:31'55.629 51.526 9 Lance Stroll
58 1:32'26.121 1'22.018 10 Esteban Ocon
57 1 lap 11 Antonio Giovinazzi
57 1 lap 12 Kimi Raikkonen
57 1 lap 13 Daniel Ricciardo
57 1 lap 14 Yuki Tsunoda
57 1 lap 15 George Russell
57 1 lap 16 Fernando Alonso
57 1 lap 17 Nicholas Latifi
57 1 lap 18 Sebastian Vettel
57 1 lap 19 Mick Schumacher
56 2 laps 20 Nikita Mazepin
56 2 laps View full results
How the Turkish Grand Prix unfolded
The race started in wet conditions, with the teams all using intermediate tyres. From his inherited pole position, Bottas led Verstappen and Leclerc, as Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri clipped the Alpine of Fernando Alonso into a spin at Turn 1 – for which Gasly received a 5s penalty.
Bottas pulled away in the opening stages from Verstappen, Leclerc and Perez.
From 11th on the grid after his penalty for an engine change, Hamilton gained spots from Alonso’s spin and Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin early on, then took seven laps to find a way past Yuki Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri. He made short work of the second Aston of Lance Stroll and Lando Norris’s McLaren, rising into the top six by the end of lap 10.
Hamilton took fifth from Gasly on lap 14, but his charging drive then stalled out as his tyres became worn and he began to lose time to the leaders. He lost further vital seconds when he was carved up while lapping the Haas of Nikita Mazepin, which delayed him catching Perez.
Hamilton briefly got ahead of Perez at the end of lap 34, but the Mexican clung on – despite being forced into the pitlane entry.
Verstappen pitted on lap 37, followed in by Bottas and Perez a lap later. Leclerc now led but suffered a big lockup at Turn 12, while Hamilton also stayed out – turning down repeated suggestions from the team to pit – and rose to fourth.
Bottas caught Leclerc with 12 laps remaining and retook the lead on lap 47. Leclerc then gave up on his staying-out gamble and dropped to fourth, just ahead of Perez.
Hamilton pitted from third with seven laps to go, dropping him to fifth. Perez passed Leclerc for third, while Hamilton – who sounded angry about giving up his track position and believed he could’ve gone to the end – struggled on his new rubber.
Hamilton had to hold off Gasly for fifth in the closing stages, ahead of Norris. The result means that Hamilton slips six points behind Verstappen in their title fight.
From the back of the grid after an engine change grid penalty, Carlos Sainz dragged his Ferrari into the top 10 by lap 14 with a bold move on Vettel. A slow pitstop didn’t help him and he had to battle past Esteban Ocon to finish eighth.
Ocon ran a non-stop race, but slipped back to 10th having been passed by Stroll in the last few laps.
Vettel tried an overambitious gamble on slicks, which saw him slide off the track a number of times and he even half-spun coming into the pits to take more inters. He finished 18th.
2021 Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix fastest laps
Cla Driver Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Valtteri Bottas 58 1'30.432 212.500 2
Carlos Sainz Jr. 49 1'31.921 1.489 1.489 209.057 3
Lando Norris 50 1'32.446 2.014 0.525 207.870 4
Sergio Perez 53 1'32.459 2.027 0.013 207.841 5
Kimi Raikkonen 50 1'32.586 2.154 0.127 207.556 6
Lance Stroll 58 1'32.608 2.176 0.022 207.506 7
Sebastian Vettel 54 1'32.730 2.298 0.122 207.233 8
Charles Leclerc 57 1'32.737 2.305 0.007 207.218 9
Max Verstappen 53 1'32.759 2.327 0.022 207.169 10
Lewis Hamilton 52 1'32.763 2.331 0.004 207.160 11
Pierre Gasly 50 1'32.814 2.382 0.051 207.046 12
Yuki Tsunoda 54 1'32.844 2.412 0.030 206.979 13
Antonio Giovinazzi 57 1'32.904 2.472 0.060 206.845 14
Fernando Alonso 55 1'33.252 2.820 0.348 206.073 15
Daniel Ricciardo 34 1'33.255 2.823 0.003 206.067 16
George Russell 53 1'33.399 2.967 0.144 205.749 17
Nicholas Latifi 48 1'33.672 3.240 0.273 205.149 18
Mick Schumacher 52 1'34.209 3.777 0.537 203.980 19
Esteban Ocon 24 1'34.584 4.152 0.375 203.171 20
Nikita Mazepin 52 1'35.438 5.006 0.854 201.353 View full results
2021 Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix tyre history
Cla Driver 1 2 3 1 Valtteri Bottas I 37 I 21 2
Max Verstappen I 36 I 22 3
Sergio Perez I 37 I 21 4
Charles Leclerc I 47 I 11 5
Lewis Hamilton I 50 I 8 6
Pierre Gasly I 39 I 19 7
Lando Norris I 34 I 24 8
Carlos Sainz Jr. I 36 I 22 9
Lance Stroll I 39 I 19 10
Esteban Ocon I 57 11
Antonio Giovinazzi I 40 I 17 12
Kimi Raikkonen I 37 I 20 13
Daniel Ricciardo I 21 I 36 14
Yuki Tsunoda I 35 I 22 15
George Russell I 35 I 22 16
Fernando Alonso I 30 I 27 17
Nicholas Latifi I 34 I 23 18
Sebastian Vettel I 36 M 5 I 20 19
Mick Schumacher I 39 I 17 20
Nikita Mazepin I 35 I 21 View full results
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