2020 F1 Turkish GP race results

Lance Stroll led from pole ahead of Sergio Perez in a Racing Point 1-2, as Esteban Ocon – hit by teammate Daniel Ricciardo – and Valtteri Bottas spun off at Turn 1. Hamilton jumped up to third from sixth, but went off at Turn 12, and dropped back to sixth. Meanwhile, Bottas suffered a second spin on the opening lap.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen made an awful start from the front row, but worked his way back to fourth, hounding Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in the opening stages.

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and Bottas were early adopters of the intermediate tyre, both having dropped towards the rear of the pack. Vettel pitted for inters on Lap 9, freeing Verstappen to chase the Racing Points.

Stroll stopped to switch to inters on Lap 10, which handed the lead to Perez for a lap before he too pitted, promoting Verstappen to P1. Verstappen stayed out for two more laps, and lost time in his stop as tape was removed from his brake duct, rejoining right behind Perez, who also suffered a slow stop, but ahead of Vettel and Hamilton.

Stroll led by 10s when a Virtual Safety Car was required to recover Antonio Giovinazzi’s stranded Alfa Romeo.

Hamilton attacked Vettel for fourth, but ran wide – complaining about his brakes – and dropped behind Albon, who also then passed Vettel.

Verstappen attacked Perez but suffered a wild spin after he ran wide, and was forced to pit again for new tyres, which dropped him from third to eighth. Albon then stepped up for Red Bull, and took the fight to Perez – and both of them slashed into Stroll’s lead – but Albon spun out of third place at Turn 4.

Hamilton took the lead on Lap 37, after Stroll pitted for a second set of inters, and Lewis passed Perez on track. Stroll – who had dominated the race until now – had no pace on his new set of inters, then became embroiled in a battle with the Ferraris of Vettel and Leclerc, who surged ahead to run fourth and fifth. Albon and Carlos Sainz (McLaren) also passed him, dropping Stroll to eighth.

Hamilton’s choice to stay on a set of intermediates for the majority of the race proved to be the winning strategy, which was mirrored by Perez in second. Vettel was the first of the two stoppers, passing Leclerc in the final corners after Charles outbraked himself while trying to lunge past Perez, with a charging Sainz in fifth. The Red Bulls were next up, with Verstappen finishing ahead of Albon despite another spin.

Lando Norris set fastest lap on his way to eighth, passing the beleaguered Stroll with two laps to go.

Bottas suffered a woeful race, spinning numerous times on his way to 14th, and was lapped by Hamilton with 12 laps remaining.

F1 Turkish Grand Prix race results

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Laps	Time	Pits	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	58	-	1	25
2	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	58	31.633	1	18
3	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	58	31.960	2	15
4	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	58	33.858	2	12
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	58	34.363	2	10
6	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	58	44.873	3	8
7	Alex Albon		Red Bull	58	46.484	2	6
8	Lando Norris		McLaren	58	1'01.259	2	5
9	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	58	1'12.353	2	2
10	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	58	1'35.460	2	1
11	Esteban Ocon		Renault	57	1 lap	2
12	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	57	1 lap	1
13	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	57	1 lap	2
14	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	57	1 lap	2
15	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	57	1 lap	3
16	George Russell		Williams	57	1 lap	2
17	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	55		3
18	Romain Grosjean		Haas	49		3
	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	39		3
	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	11		1
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F1 Turkish Grand Prix fastest laps

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Lando Norris		McLaren	58	1'36.806
2	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	57	1'38.193	1.387	1.387
3	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	53	1'38.431	1.625	0.238
4	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	56	1'38.754	1.948	0.323
5	Alex Albon		Red Bull	54	1'39.099	2.293	0.345
6	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	56	1'39.413	2.607	0.314
7	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	53	1'39.586	2.780	0.173
8	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	53	1'39.662	2.856	0.076
9	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	57	1'39.743	2.937	0.081
10	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	55	1'39.921	3.115	0.178
11	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	47	1'39.961	3.155	0.040
12	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	50	1'40.392	3.586	0.431
13	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	54	1'40.677	3.871	0.285
14	George Russell		Williams	51	1'40.814	4.008	0.137
15	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	45	1'40.948	4.142	0.134
16	Esteban Ocon		Renault	55	1'41.006	4.200	0.058
17	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	53	1'41.019	4.213	0.013
18	Romain Grosjean		Haas	38	1'43.281	6.475	2.262
19	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	32	1'43.495	6.689	0.214
20	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	11	1'51.122	14.316	7.627
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F1 Turkish Grand Prix tyre history

Cla	Driver		Chassis	1		2		3		4
1	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	W	8	I	53
2	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	W	11	I	48
3	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	W	10	I	25	I	25
4	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	W	8	I	24	I	28
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	W	16	I	23	I	25
6	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	W	25	I	7	I	33	I	15
7	Alex Albon		Red Bull	W	12	I	22	I	24
8	Lando Norris		McLaren	W	10	I	27	I	22
9	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	W	11	I	27	I	22
10	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	W	21	I	22	I	26
11	Esteban Ocon		Renault	W	10	W	19	I	47
12	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	W	9	I	49
13	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	W	14	I	23	I	24
14	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	W	7	I	42	I	11
15	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	W	17	I	22	I	23	I	7
16	George Russell		Williams	I	32	I	10	I	15
17	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	W	10	I	26	I	22
18	Romain Grosjean		Haas	W	9	I	28	I	13
	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	I	8	I	30	I	1
	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	W	19	I	3
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F1 Turkish Grand Prix as it happened