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[[Racing Point F1 Team|Racing Point]] driver [[Lance Stroll]] set the fastest time of the final subsession to score the [[List of Formula One polesitters|maiden pole position of his career]].<ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Autosport Stroll on pole"></ref> It was the first [[pole position]] for a [[Formula One drivers from Canada|Canadian driver]], and first pole for a driver from North America, since [[Jacques Villeneuve]]'s pole at the [[1997 European Grand Prix]].<ref name="Formula 1 website quali stats"></ref><ref name="Reuters Stroll on pole"></ref> The team were able to set up their cars to work well in the slippery conditions, with Stroll's teammate [[Sergio Pérez]] qualifying in a career best third place after spending most of the final subsession at the top of the time sheets.<ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Guardian Stroll on pole"></ref> This was Racing Point's first pole position as a [[list of Formula One constructors|constructor]] |
[[Racing Point F1 Team|Racing Point]] driver [[Lance Stroll]] set the fastest time of the final subsession to score the [[List of Formula One polesitters|maiden pole position of his career]].<ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Autosport Stroll on pole"></ref> It was the first [[pole position]] for a [[Formula One drivers from Canada|Canadian driver]], and first pole for a driver from North America, since [[Jacques Villeneuve]]'s pole at the [[1997 European Grand Prix]].<ref name="Formula 1 website quali stats"></ref><ref name="Reuters Stroll on pole"></ref> The team were able to set up their cars to work well in the slippery conditions, with Stroll's teammate [[Sergio Pérez]] qualifying in a career best third place after spending most of the final subsession at the top of the time sheets.<ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Guardian Stroll on pole"></ref> This was Racing Point's first pole position as a [[list of Formula One constructors|constructor]].<ref name="Guardian Stroll on pole"></ref> It was the first pole for any incarnation of the team since their predecessors [[Force India]] at the [[2009 Belgian Grand Prix]].<ref name="Formula 1 website quali stats"></ref><ref name="Formula 1 website Stroll on pole"></ref> Racing Point's pole position was also the first pole for a [[Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains|Mercedes engine]] customer team, and the first for a constructor other than Mercedes, Red Bull, or Ferrari, since the [[2014 Austrian Grand Prix]].<ref name="Formula 1 website quali stats"></ref> |
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Verstappen qualified second for Red Bull after struggling to manage his tyre temperatures.<ref name="Formula 1 website Stroll on pole"></ref> The Red Bull had performed better on the full wet tyres in the second part of qualifying than on the intermediates in the final subsession.<ref name="Reuters Verstappen upset"></ref><ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Guardian Stroll on pole"></ref> The top ten shootout was the first session of the meeting where Verstappen did not set the fastest lap time.<ref name="Reuters Verstappen upset"></ref> Albon in the other Red Bull equalled his best qualifying result with fourth position.<ref name="Formula 1 website Stroll on pole"></ref> |
Verstappen qualified second for Red Bull after struggling to manage his tyre temperatures.<ref name="Formula 1 website Stroll on pole"></ref> The Red Bull had performed better on the full wet tyres in the second part of qualifying than on the intermediates in the final subsession.<ref name="Reuters Verstappen upset"></ref><ref name="BBC Sport Stroll on pole"></ref><ref name="Guardian Stroll on pole"></ref> The top ten shootout was the first session of the meeting where Verstappen did not set the fastest lap time.<ref name="Reuters Verstappen upset"></ref> Albon in the other Red Bull equalled his best qualifying result with fourth position.<ref name="Formula 1 website Stroll on pole"></ref> |
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The first part of qualifying was suspended a second time when the [[Haas F1 Team|Haas]] of [[Romain Grosjean]] went off the circuit. This compromised his teammate [[Kevin Magnussen]]'s qualifying result, as he could not set a fast enough time after the session resumed to make it through to the second part.<ref name="The Race driver ratings"></ref> The Danish driver qualified sixteenth, and had to slow down after the [[Scuderia Alpha Tauri|Alpha Tauri]] of [[Daniil Kvyat]] span on the track ahead of him. Kvyat also failed to progress past the end of the first subsession, qualifying seventeenth.<ref name="Autosport Stroll on pole"></ref> The [[Williams Grand Prix Engineering|Williams]] drivers could not maintain the necessary tyre temperature, with the resultant lack of grip leaving [[George Russell (racing driver)|George Russell]] a long way off the pace, while [[Nicholas Latifi]] lost control of his car, which then got beached in the gravel trap.<ref name="The Race driver ratings"></ref><ref name="Autosport Masi crane"></ref> |
The first part of qualifying was suspended a second time when the [[Haas F1 Team|Haas]] of [[Romain Grosjean]] went off the circuit. This compromised his teammate [[Kevin Magnussen]]'s qualifying result, as he could not set a fast enough time after the session resumed to make it through to the second part.<ref name="The Race driver ratings"></ref> The Danish driver qualified sixteenth, and had to slow down after the [[Scuderia Alpha Tauri|Alpha Tauri]] of [[Daniil Kvyat]] span on the track ahead of him. Kvyat also failed to progress past the end of the first subsession, qualifying seventeenth.<ref name="Autosport Stroll on pole"></ref> The [[Williams Grand Prix Engineering|Williams]] drivers could not maintain the necessary tyre temperature, with the resultant lack of grip leaving [[George Russell (racing driver)|George Russell]] a long way off the pace, while [[Nicholas Latifi]] lost control of his car, which then got beached in the gravel trap.<ref name="The Race driver ratings"></ref><ref name="Autosport Masi crane"></ref> |
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Stroll was investigated for failing to slow for [[Racing flags#Yellow flag|yellow flags]] (which were warning that his teammate had spun on track ahead of him) in the third part of qualifying. However, he was cleared of any wrong doing as he was deemed to have slowed sufficiently for the incident, with the drying track surface leading to Stroll's improved lap time.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Stroll no penalty"></ref> Norris and Russell were penalised and had to start the race from five places further back as a result. This was because they failed to slow down enough under yellow flag conditions during the first part of qualifying.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Norris quali penalty"></ref><ref name="Formula 1 website Russell quali penalty"></ref> Sainz was also given a similar three-place grid penalty for impeding Pérez in the first part of qualifying.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Sainz quali penalty"></ref> |
Stroll was investigated for failing to slow for [[Racing flags#Yellow flag|yellow flags]] (which were warning that his teammate had spun on track ahead of him) in the third part of qualifying. However, he was cleared of any wrong doing as he was deemed to have slowed sufficiently for the incident, with the drying track surface leading to Stroll's improved lap time.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Stroll no penalty"></ref> Norris and Russell were penalised and had to start the race from five places further back as a result. This was because they failed to slow down enough under yellow flag conditions during the first part of qualifying.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Norris quali penalty"></ref><ref name="Formula 1 website Russell quali penalty"></ref> Sainz was also given a similar three-place grid penalty for impeding Pérez in the first part of qualifying.<ref name="Motorsport dot com Sainz quali penalty"></ref> |
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2020 Turkish Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 14 of 17[a] in the 2020 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1][2][3] | |||||
Date | 15 November 2020 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 DHL Turkish Grand Prix 2020 | ||||
Location |
Intercity Istanbul Park Tuzla, Turkey | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 5.338 km (3.316 miles) | ||||
Distance | 58 laps, 309.396 km (192.249 miles) | ||||
Weather | Overcast. Wet and drying track. | ||||
Attendance | 0[b] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | ||||
Time | 1:47.765 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Lando Norris | McLaren-Renault | |||
Time | 1:36.806 on lap 58 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Mercedes | ||||
Second | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | ||||
Third | Ferrari | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2020 Turkish Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 DHL Turkish Grand Prix 2020) was a Formula One motor race which took place on 15 November 2020 at Istanbul Park in Tuzla, Istanbul.[4] The race was the fourteenth round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship, and the eighth running of the Turkish Grand Prix since the event was first held during the 2005 season. The race was added to the revised 2020 calendar after other planned races were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 58-lap race took place with low-grip conditions due to a smooth new track surface and rainfall before the start. Racing Point driver Lance Stroll led for most of the race after taking the first pole position of his career, but lost positions in the last twenty laps after his car was damaged. Lewis Hamilton, driving for the Mercedes team, would go on to win the race ahead of Stroll's teammate Sergio Pérez and the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel.
Going into the race only the two Mercedes drivers (Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas) remained in contention for the World Drivers' Championship, with Hamilton holding an 85-point lead. By winning the race, Hamilton claimed his seventh World Championship title, equalling the record set by Michael Schumacher. Hamilton's title also marked the seventh consecutive time that a Mercedes driver had won the World Championship.
Background
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
The 2020 Formula One World Championship was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the originally scheduled Grands Prix were cancelled or postponed, prompting the sport's governing body, the FIA, to draft a new calendar. The Turkish Grand Prix was added to the calendar in late August 2020. This was the first time the event had been held since the 2011 season.[5][6] Initially, it was planned that 100,000 spectators could attend. However, due to a surge of COVID-19 cases in the country, organisers announced that the Grand Prix would take place behind closed doors.[7][8] The Grand Prix's organisers hoped that it would lead to future events being scheduled for the venue, although they would not want to hold them during Ramadan.[9]
Track changes
A second drag reduction system zone was added on the straight between the final and first turns, with the goal of aiding overtaking. The detection point was established after turn 13.[10] During the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix, only the DRS zone located between turns 11 and 12 was used.[11]
Entrants
Ten teams (each representing a different constructor) each entered two drivers. The drivers and teams were the same as those on the season entry list, with no additional stand-in drivers for either the race or practice.[12]
Tyres
Sole Formula One tyre manufacturer Pirelli brought their three hardest dry weather tyre compounds – the C1, C2, and C3.[13][14] Two types of wet weather tyre, known as "wets" and "intermediates", were also available.[15][16] Following Friday's practice sessions, Mario Isola (the head of Pirelli's Formula One tyre programme) admitted that Pirelli had not been aware of the resurfacing which had been done to the track two weeks prior, and that if they had known, they would have brought softer tyre compounds which would suit the smoother surface better.[13] The lower levels of friction meant that drivers consistently struggled to maintain the tyre temperature needed for the tyre to operate efficiently, limiting the speeds that could be achieved.[17][18][19]
Championship permutations
The Mercedes team had already secured both championships, as no other team's drivers could outscore Lewis Hamilton, whose teammate Valtteri Bottas needed to score eight points more than him in order to remain in contention to win the 2020 World Drivers' Championship. If Bottas finished in a position lower than sixth, then Hamilton would win the championship regardless of where he finished.[20] If Hamilton finished in second place then Bottas would have needed to have won the race and set the fastest lap of the race in order to remain in contention.[3][21]
Practice
The first of Friday's two ninety-minute practice sessions ended with Max Verstappen fastest ahead of Red Bull Racing teammate Alex Albon, with Charles Leclerc third fastest for Scuderia Ferrari.[22][23][24] The session was briefly suspended after Leclerc hit a bollard during its opening minutes.[19][23] Championship leader Hamilton was only fifteenth fastest while Bottas was ninth.[23] Carlos Sainz Jr. stopped on track as his McLaren broke down.[19][23] Several drivers had spins, and all struggled for speed, with drivers stating there was a lack of grip following the track being resurfaced.[19][23][25] Lap times in first practice were approximately ten seconds slower that those set at the circuit's previous Grand Prix meeting[c] and twenty seconds slower that the lap times that were expected in qualifying.[19][25][26]
The second Friday practice session ended with Verstappen fastest ahead of Leclerc and the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas. Verstappen's best time in the second session was nearly seven seconds faster than in the first. Championship contenders Bottas and Hamilton both improved their positions significantly in this session.[19][27] Bottas compared the low-grip track conditions to his experiences of driving on ice in his native Finland.[19]
The third and final one hour practice session was held in wet conditions on Saturday morning and ended with Verstappen fastest ahead of Leclerc and Albon, while championship leader Hamilton did not set a time.[24][28][29] Several drivers criticised the track conditions during this session.[29] Leclerc had a minor collision with Esteban Ocon (who was driving for the Renault team), while McLaren driver Lando Norris span off the circuit.[29]
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on the Saturday afternoon, starting at 15:00 local time (UTC+03:00). The air temperature at the start of qualifying was 11.9 °C (53.4 °F) and the track temperature was 13.6 °C (56.5 °F).[30] The session was split into three subsessions.[d] After each subsession the slowest five cars had their qualifying positions set and were prevented from taking part in the next subsession.[24] The session was defined by a tricky low grip track surface and damp weather conditions, with the first subsession being suspended for 45 minutes as a result.[15][31][32]
Qualifying report
Racing Point driver Lance Stroll set the fastest time of the final subsession to score the maiden pole position of his career.[15][31] It was the first pole position for a Canadian driver, and first pole for a driver from North America, since Jacques Villeneuve's pole at the 1997 European Grand Prix.[33][34] The team were able to set up their cars to work well in the slippery conditions, with Stroll's teammate Sergio Pérez qualifying in a career best third place after spending most of the final subsession at the top of the time sheets.[15][16] This was Racing Point's first pole position as a constructor.[16] It was the first pole for any incarnation of the team since their predecessors Force India at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix.[33][35] Racing Point's pole position was also the first pole for a Mercedes engine customer team, and the first for a constructor other than Mercedes, Red Bull, or Ferrari, since the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix.[33]
Verstappen qualified second for Red Bull after struggling to manage his tyre temperatures.[35] The Red Bull had performed better on the full wet tyres in the second part of qualifying than on the intermediates in the final subsession.[36][15][16] The top ten shootout was the first session of the meeting where Verstappen did not set the fastest lap time.[36] Albon in the other Red Bull equalled his best qualifying result with fourth position.[35]
Constructors' champions Mercedes had a poor session, with Hamilton qualifying in sixth place and Bottas in ninth, this being the first pole position in 2020 not to go to a Mercedes driver.[32] Both drivers felt that they were less able to utilise the grip of the tyres than some other teams.[32] Hamilton came close to not making it out of the first subsession, with a fastest time in that segment over ten seconds slower than the time set by Verstappen.[37][38]
The Renaults of Ocon and Daniel Ricciardo appeared to be stronger on the full wet tyres than the intermediates, with Ricciardo qualifying in fifth on the full wets while Ocon struggled on the intermediates to seventh.[31] The Alfa Romeo team had their best qualifying of the season with Kimi Räikkönen eighth and Antonio Giovinazzi tenth.[35][31] Despite being second fastest in final practice, Leclerc could only qualify fourteenth, being knocked out in the second subsession with a lap time six seconds slower than pacesetter Verstappen.[15] Sebastian Vettel outqualified him in the other Ferrari, claiming twelfth position.[16] McLaren had their worst qualifying of the year so far, with neither of their drivers qualifying in the top ten.[33]
The first part of qualifying was suspended a second time when the Haas of Romain Grosjean went off the circuit. This compromised his teammate Kevin Magnussen's qualifying result, as he could not set a fast enough time after the session resumed to make it through to the second part.[37] The Danish driver qualified sixteenth, and had to slow down after the Alpha Tauri of Daniil Kvyat span on the track ahead of him. Kvyat also failed to progress past the end of the first subsession, qualifying seventeenth.[31] The Williams drivers could not maintain the necessary tyre temperature, with the resultant lack of grip leaving George Russell a long way off the pace, while Nicholas Latifi lost control of his car, which then got beached in the gravel trap.[37][39]
Post-qualifying
Stroll was investigated for failing to slow for yellow flags (which were warning that his teammate had spun on track ahead of him) in the third part of qualifying. However, he was cleared of any wrong doing as he was deemed to have slowed sufficiently for the incident, with the drying track surface leading to Stroll's improved lap time.[40] Norris and Russell were penalised and had to start the race from five places further back as a result. This was because they failed to slow down enough under yellow flag conditions during the first part of qualifying.[41][42] Sainz was also given a similar three-place grid penalty for impeding Pérez in the first part of qualifying.[43]
A review was launched after the second segment of qualifying was started whilst race marshals were still using a tractor crane to recover the car of Latifi, who had spun off in the previous subsession.[32][39] This caused concern with some drivers citing the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, during which Jules Bianchi had a fatal collision with a recovery vehicle.[44][45]
Qualifying classification
Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Final grid | ||
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1 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | 2:07.467 | 1:53.372 | 1:47.765 | 1 |
2 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-Honda | 1:57.485 | 1:50.293 | 1:48.055 | 2 |
3 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | 2:07.614 | 1:54.097 | 1:49.321 | 3 |
4 | 23 | Alex Albon | Red Bull Racing-Honda | 1:59.431 | 1:52.282 | 1:50.448 | 4 |
5 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | 2:05.598 | 1:54.278 | 1:51.595 | 5 |
6 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 2:07.559 | 1:52.709 | 1:52.560 | 6 |
7 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Renault | 2:06.115 | 1:53.657 | 1:52.622 | 7 |
8 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari | 2:01.249 | 1:53.793 | 1:52.745 | 8 |
9 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 2:07.001 | 1:53.767 | 1:53.258 | 9 |
10 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari | 2:07.341 | 1:53.431 | 1:57.226 | 10 |
11 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Renault | 2:07.167 | 1:54.945 | N/A | 141 |
12 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 2:03.356 | 1:55.169 | N/A | 11 |
13 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | McLaren-Renault | 2:07.489 | 1:55.410 | N/A | 152 |
14 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 2:04.464 | 1:56.696 | N/A | 12 |
15 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri-Honda | 2:05.579 | 1:58.556 | N/A | 193 |
16 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 2:08.007 | N/A | N/A | 13 |
17 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | AlphaTauri-Honda | 2:09.070 | N/A | N/A | 16 |
18 | 63 | George Russell | Williams-Mercedes | 2:10.017 | N/A | N/A | PL4 |
19 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 2:12.909 | N/A | N/A | 17 |
20 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams-Mercedes | 2:21.611 | N/A | N/A | PL5 |
107% time: 2:05.7086 | |||||||
Source:[38][46] |
- Notes
- ^1 – Lando Norris received a five-place grid penalty for failing to respect yellow flags during qualifying.[47]
- ^2 – Carlos Sainz Jr. received a three-place grid penalty for impeding Sergio Pérez during qualifying.[48]
- ^3 – Pierre Gasly was required to start from the back of the grid for breaching parc fermé regulations.[49]
- ^4 – George Russell was required to start from the back of the grid for exceeding his quota of power unit elements.[50] He also received a five-place grid penalty for failing to respect yellow flags during qualifying.[51] Russell started the race from the pit lane after he had to return to the pits to fix his damaged car. His place on the grid, 20th, was left vacant.[37]
- ^5 – Nicholas Latifi started the race from the pit lane because of not leaving it before it was closed. His place on the grid, 18th, was left vacant.[37]
- ^6 – As qualifying was held on a wet track, the 107% rule was not enforced.[52]
Race
The race was held on the Sunday with a distance of 58 laps[e] and a scheduled start time of 13:10 local time (UTC+03:00).[3][53] The air temperature shortly before the start was 12.2 °C (54.0 °F) and the track temperature was 15 °C (59 °F).[54] Giovinazzi span on a reconnaissance lap, breaking the front wing of his Alfa Romeo. Russell had a similar incident in his Williams, and started the race from the pit lane.[37][55] Drivers were allowed to complete additional reconnaissance laps before the start of the race due to the wet conditions.[citation needed] The Alfa Romeo team's participation in this race marked the 500th Grand Prix in which a team run by the Sauber Motorsport company has competed.[3][56][57]
Race report
The race took place in wet conditions, with most drivers starting on full wet tyres[f] before changing to intermediate wet tyres as the track surface dried during the race.[55][59] Stroll held onto the lead after starting from pole position, while his teammate Pérez moved up from third place into second.[60] Both Red Bull drivers accelerated slowly from the standing start, and were overtaken by other drivers who started behind them, with Verstappen falling from second to eighth place at the start.[55]
Vettel gained a large number of places on the first lap, moving into third place after starting eleventh. Vettel overtook Hamilton to gain first place when the Mercedes driver slid off at the ninth turn. Hamilton rejoined the track in the same sixth position he had started in.[37] Ocon and Bottas nearly made contact at the first turn and both span.[55] Another incident involving the same two drivers later on the first lap left Ocon with a punctured tyre.[61] Sainz moved up from fifteenth into ninth on the first lap while his McLaren teammate Norris was slow off the line. Starting from an even numbered grid position was seen as a disadvantage due to the lower grip levels on that side of the track.[59]
Leclerc switched from wet tyres to intermediates on lap six, with the frontrunning drivers doing the same in the following laps.[55] Verstappen, who had been unable to pass Vettel, waited until lap eleven to switch from the full wets to the intermediates. This allowed Verstappen to emerge from the pit lane ahead of the Ferrari driver, who had stopped on lap eight.[60][61] Giovinazzi retired with gearbox issues on the twelfth lap.[59] Other drivers were required to slow down while his Alfa Romeo was recovered.[55] Verstappen span at high speed on lap eighteen while trying to pass Pérez. This damaged the Red Bull's tyres, meaning that he had to pit again.[61] Verstappen's race was compromised after the team erroneously fitted his car with an asymmetrical front wing.[62] Albon in the other Red Bull began to catch Pérez, only to fall back as his tyres wore out.[55] Albon would eventually finish in seventh place, behind his teammate.[20]
Stroll led for all but three of the first 35 laps, briefly relinquishing it during the first pit stop cycle before regaining it as other drivers came in for their first pit stops. He lost the lead on lap 36 when the team brought him into the pits for a new set of intermediate tyres.[37][60] After this he fell to ninth place by the end of the race.[63] According to the Racing Point team, this was due to damage to his car's front wing that caused a loss of aerodynamic downforce, which in turn damaged the tyres.[64] As Stroll struggled on the new set of tyres the team decided against replacing the tyres on Pérez's car.[65] Despite falling down the order, Stroll's performance was praised by commentators, although some felt that he could have handled the situation better.[37][59][66][67] Pérez briefly led after Stroll's pit stop, but Hamilton overtook him a lap later using the drag reduction system, which had been activated on lap 30.[55]
Latifi and Grosjean both retired in the pits with damage following a collision.[59] Grosjean's teammate Magnussen, who had been running as high as eleventh until he lost two laps to a botched pit stop, withdrew late in the race while experiencing problems with poor visibility.[59][68] The final lap of the race saw Leclerc attempt a pass on Pérez for second place, only to make an error and fall to fourth after being passed by Ferrari teammate Vettel, while Norris claimed the bonus point for fastest lap.[59][69]
Hamilton went on to win the race from Pérez by a margin of half a minute.[70] It was Hamilton's 94th race victory,[69][71] and his tenth of 2020.[70] Hamilton and Pérez had both continued without stopping again on heavily worn intermediate tyres.[61][69] Pérez would claim his tyres were close to failing at the end.[72] The Mexican driver had used the same set of tyres for 48 laps.[20] Hamilton chose against changing his tyres as he did not want to repeat what had happened at the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix, where an accident while entering the pit lane on worn tyres cost him the championship.[73] Hamilton's victory secured him his seventh World Drivers' Championship title,[74] and marked the second time he had won the event, the first being the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix.[3][75]
Hamilton's Mercedes teammate and sole remaining title rival Bottas finished one lap down in fourteenth place after spinning six times during the race.[76] Despite losing the title to Hamilton, Bottas congratulated his teammate after the race.[20] The result also moved Pérez (who stated before the race that he may be left without a Formula One contract for the 2021 season)[77] up two places into fourth in the championship ahead of Leclerc and Renault driver Ricciardo.[20][78] Racing Point moved up from fifth to third in the Constructors' Championship standings, trading places with Renault and moving ahead of McLaren, who remained in fourth.[20]
Post-race
Hamilton stated that he hoped his success would inspire children and help to create a more equal world.[79][80] Several sporting figures expressed their belief that Hamilton is one of the greatest racing drivers of all time, along with long-time rival Vettel, who said that he believed Hamilton is the best driver of the era.[80][81][82] Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said that Hamilton was unlikely to retire from Formula One at the end of the season.[83] Hamilton responded to calls for him to be knighted by saying that he believes war veterans and doctors and nurses are more deserving of such honours.[84][85][86][87] Managing director of Formula One Ross Brawn expressed the view that the slippery conditions during the race allowed more experienced drivers to showcase their talents.[18]
Race classification
- Notes
- ^1 – Includes one point for fastest lap.[90]
- ^2 – Kevin Magnussen was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
Notes
- ^ The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw several Grands Prix cancelled or rescheduled. The revised calendar consisted of seventeen races.
- ^ The Grand Prix was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.
- ^ Max Verstappen's 1:35.077 was the fastest time in first practice compared to the 1:25.049 pole position time in 2011.
- ^ The subsessions lasted 18, 15, and 12 minutes respectively.
- ^ The least number of laps to exceed 305 kilometres (190 mi).[2]
- ^ The Williams cars of George Russell and Nicholas Latifi started on intermediates.
- ^ Racing Point was deducted 15 points after a protest from Renault was upheld regarding the legality of their car.[91]
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