Felipe Massa said that he owned the circuit when he came here and today I prooved the point by making it his third successive win here at the Istanbul Park and was probably worthy of the title "Driver of the day". His engineer Rob Smedly said after the race "this makes him World Championship ,material" reinforcing Michael Schumacher´s comments earlier this year that the Brazilian should not be dismissed. Lewis Hamilton made a good start tucking in behind the Massa running on the harder of the two tyre compounds. Heikki Kovalainen made a bad start and had the misfortune of touch the rear of Kimi Räikkönen going into the first corner and had to come in after the first lap with a punture, the Finn being demoted to last and eventually working his way up to finish 12th. Not so fortunate into the first corner were Kazuki Nakajima with Giancarlo Fisichella outbraking himself and going into the rear of the Japanese driver, both drivers having to retire on the spot. This was the third time for the Italian at this corner in 3 years!
Hamilton came in surprisingly early for his first pit stop putting on another set of hard rubber, but did not manage to leapfrog Massa with this pit stop. Afterwards he managed to move out of the Ferrari slip stream and in a neat overtaking manouvre overtake Felipe. The Brazilian sensibly took avoiding action and maintained his second position his engineer advising him that it was thought that Lewis was on a 3 stop strategy. Felipe Massa managed to recover his position which he was to hold until the end of the race, Lewis Hamilton coming out just ahead of Kimi Räikkönen after his last pit stop with the soft compound that he did not like, the Finn chasing him all the way to the chequered flog, Robert Kubica BMW did not put in the expected challange and team mate Nick Heidfeld quitely worked his way up to finish behind him ahead of Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg taking the last point for Williams.
1 Felipe Massa Ferrari 58 Winner 1
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 58 + 3.7 secs
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 58 + 4.2 secs
4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 58 + 21.9 secs
5 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 58 + 38.7 secs
6 Fernando Alonso Renault 58 + 53.7 secs
7 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 58 + 64.2 secs
8 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 58 + 71.4 secs
9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 58 + 75.2 secs
10 Jarno Trulli Toyota 58 + 76.3 secs
11 Jenson Button Honda 57 + 1 Lap
12 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 57 + 1 Lap
13 Timo Glock Toyota 57 + 1 Lap
14 Rubens Barrichello Honda 57 + 1 Lap
15 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 57 + 1 Lap
16 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 57 + 1
17 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 57 + 1 Lap
Ret Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 24 + 34 Laps
Ret Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1 + 57 Laps
Ret Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 0 + 58 Laps
Saturday Qualifiying (10 May 2008)
Felipe Massa has taken pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix for the third year in succession, with Heikki Kovalainen bouncing back from his high speed Barcelona accident and the second McLaren of Lewis Hamilton taking third spot after changing to a hard compound, the soft rubber giving him oversteer. Kimi Raikkonen could only manage fourth fastest but must not be ruled out tomorrow. Red Bull have both Mark Webber (5th) and David Coulthard (10th) in the top ten tomorrow,
| 1 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:25.994 | 1:26.192 | 1:27.617 | 16 | |
| 2 | Heikki Kovalainen | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:26.736 | 1:26.290 | 1:27.808 | 16 | |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:26.192 | 1:26.477 | 1:27.923 | 15 | |
| 4 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:26.457 | 1:26.050 | 1:27.936 | 17 | |
| 5 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 1:26.761 | 1:26.129 | 1:28.390 | 17 | |
| 6 | Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault | 1:26.773 | 1:26.466 | 1:28.417 | 17 | |
| 7 | Fernando Alonso | Renault | 1:26.836 | 1:26.522 | 1:28.422 | 18 | |
| 8 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 1:26.695 | 1:26.822 | 1:28.836 | 20 | |
| 9 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber | 1:27.107 | 1:26.607 | 1:28.882 | 20 | |
| 10 | David Coulthard | Red Bull-Renault | 1:26.939 | 1:26.520 | 1:29.959 | 16 | |
| 11 | Nico Rosberg | Williams-Toyota | 1:27.367 | 1:27.012 | 13 | ||
| 12 | Rubens Barrichello | Honda | 1:27.355 | 1:27.219 | 13 | ||
| 13 | Jenson Button | Honda | 1:27.428 | 1:27.298 | 14 | ||
| 14 | Sebastian Vettel | STR-Ferrari | 1:27.442 | 1:27.412 | 15 | ||
| 15 | Timo Glock | Toyota | 1:26.614 | 1:27.806 | 15 | ||
| 16 | Kazuki Nakajima | Williams-Toyota | 1:27.547 | 9 | |||
| 17 | Nelsinho Piquet | Renault | 1:27.568 | 7 | |||
| 18 | Sebastien Bourdais | STR-Ferrari | 1:27.621 | 8 | |||
| 19 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Force India-Ferrari | 1:27.807 | 10 | |||
| 20 | Adrian Sutil | Force India-Ferrari | 1:28.325 | 9 |
Friday Practice 2 (9 May 2008)
1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.543 30
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.579 0.036 31
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.682 0.139 29
4 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:27.763 0.220 24
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.954 0.411 27
6 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:28.431 0.888 29
7 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:28.619 1.076 29
8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:28.664 1.121 27
9 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:28.681 1.138 26
10 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:28.817 1.274 31
11 Jenson Button Honda 1:28.826 1.283 28
12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:28.849 1.306 26
13 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:28.907 1.364 29
14 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:29.008 1.465 35
15 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:29.024 1.481 22
16 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:29.212 1.669 26
17 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:29.462 1.919 30
18 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:29.630 2.087 32
19 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:29.633 2.090 4
20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:30.832 3.289 9
Turkish Grand Prix on ITV
Live qualifying Saturday 10 May 1110-1330 ITV1
Qualifying highlights Sunday 11 May 1030-1130 ITV4
Live race Sunday 11 May 1210-1500 ITV1
Highlights Sunday 11 May 2350-0050 ITV1
Highlights re-run Monday 12 May 1800-1900 ITV4
Live GP2 action on ITV
Live feature race Saturday 10 May 1330-1540 ITV4
Live sprint race Sunday 11 May 0925-1030 ITV4
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