McLaren were fastest again in the second practice session for the Turkish Grand Prix.
Close behind Button were the two Red Bulls. But both suffered reliability problems on their cars, with Mark Webber coming to a stop at the end of the session.
His car rolled to a halt as he accelerated away from the second corner, coming to a stop with a wisp of smoke from the airbox.
Sebastian Vettel had a water pipe change before the start of the session. But towards the end of second practice he drove slowly into the pit with a loss of water pressure in his RB6.
When they were on the track the RB6s looked very quick. They were visibly faster through turn eight and showed a clear advantage on the stopwatch as well.
All the teams had to cope with track temperatures in excess of 50C from the beginning of the session.
Several drivers struggled with turn eight during the session: Felipe Massa, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Kamui Kobayashi all had more than one off-track excursion at the corner.
Vitaly Petrov also ran wide there in the Renault and Karun Chandhok had a spin in the HRT at the end of the session.
Massa’s high-speed spin ruined a set of soft tyres, disadvantaging him for the rest of the session.
He ended the session in tenth place with team mate Fernando Alonso fifth. Between them were the two Mercedes and two Renaults.
Pos. | Car | Driver | Car | Best lap | Laps | |
1 | 1 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’28.280 | 30 | |
2 | 6 | Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault | 1’28.378 | 0.098 | 24 |
3 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull-Renault | 1’28.590 | 0.31 | 27 |
4 | 2 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 1’28.672 | 0.392 | 32 |
5 | 8 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1’28.725 | 0.445 | 30 |
6 | 4 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1’28.914 | 0.634 | 22 |
7 | 3 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 1’28.974 | 0.694 | 22 |
8 | 11 | Robert Kubica | Renault | 1’29.225 | 0.945 | 34 |
9 | 12 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 1’29.501 | 1.221 | 36 |
10 | 7 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1’29.620 | 1.34 | 26 |
11 | 14 | Adrian Sutil | Force India-Mercedes | 1’29.629 | 1.349 | 16 |
12 | 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Williams-Cosworth | 1’29.987 | 1.707 | 17 |
13 | 23 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’30.053 | 1.773 | 34 |
14 | 22 | Pedro de la Rosa | Sauber-Ferrari | 1’30.176 | 1.896 | 34 |
15 | 16 | Sebastien Buemi | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1’30.386 | 2.106 | 32 |
16 | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | Force India-Mercedes | 1’30.627 | 2.347 | 28 |
17 | 9 | Rubens Barrichello | Williams-Cosworth | 1’30.766 | 2.486 | 32 |
18 | 17 | Jaime Alguersuari | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 1’30.933 | 2.653 | 37 |
19 | 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus-Cosworth | 1’31.610 | 3.33 | 37 |
20 | 25 | Lucas di Grassi | Virgin-Cosworth | 1’33.013 | 4.733 | 28 |
21 | 18 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus-Cosworth | 1’33.081 | 4.801 | 11 |
22 | 24 | Timo Glock | Virgin-Cosworth | 1’33.312 | 5.032 | 29 |
23 | 21 | Bruno Senna | HRT-Cosworth | 1’33.420 | 5.14 | 35 |
24 | 20 | Karun Chandhok | HRT-Cosworth | 1’33.740 | 5.46 | 25 |
2010 Turkish Grand Prix
TommyC
28th May 2010, 13:43
look keith, i’m sick of your unnecessarily biased and misleading titles. gees.
haha
nick
28th May 2010, 13:51
yea you need to visit doctor
TommyC
28th May 2010, 13:54
refer to the fp1 analysis. some hilarious comments
Patrickl
28th May 2010, 13:54
lol, yeah there is bound to be some fanboy to come round and complain about the title once again. Better beat them to it :)
OT: I though they said that they were replacing a waterpipe in Vettel’s car. Not (just) a fuelpump?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th May 2010, 14:08
I don’t know why I wrote fuel pump, it was a water pipe. Fixed it, thanks.
Tiomkin
28th May 2010, 14:24
You are overworked.
MigueLP
29th May 2010, 2:17
me too really wanting mclaren to win isnt going to make them win lets just analize data so see weather is it possible…no
Johnny86
28th May 2010, 13:59
Red bull looks ominous with mclaren and ferrari quite a bit behind.what is happening with massa !!.it was supposed to be his strongest track yet he was behind alonso first with the prime tyres and then ruining the options.hopefully he’ll come good tomorrow.btw where can i get the top speed links.
TommyC
28th May 2010, 14:30
yeh, it must be quite disheartening for massa to have petrov in front of him in turkey of all places. i hope he comes good too, give alonso a run for his money.
curedcat
28th May 2010, 14:01
may be if no complaint was made the headline would have been something like this
“Mclaren fastest again BUT “redbull looking racy/dangerous/”
or “mclaren fastest again but redbull has potentials”
the first comments on this page are from keith’s fanboys always kisiing ass all day and would mock the truth when told
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th May 2010, 14:09
I don’t understand, what’s your complaint about the headline?
TommyC
28th May 2010, 14:12
oh, wow, it seems you just can’t win keith. haha
Rob
28th May 2010, 14:17
Apparently blown engines and pump problems are only realiability issues when they happen to HRT/Lotus/Virgin (or McLaren?) cars, with Red Bulls they indicate that the car is so fast it can’t even stay in one piece!
Rob
28th May 2010, 14:22
*reliability even
Tiomkin
28th May 2010, 14:29
A Headline is used to inform and grab the reader’s attention. Which is exactly what your headline did. They is nothing wrong.
Patrickl
28th May 2010, 14:39
I guess he’s blaming you for being too much on Red Bull’s side. His “warning” in the previous thread with the unacceptable headline there is what made this new headline acceptable.
Guess we have curedcat to thank for the fact that we (finally) have a good headline. Yay for curedcat …
kowalsky
28th May 2010, 16:05
this teenagers are more complicated to understand than women. I don’t see anything wrong with the title. May be they are just pulling your leg.
Calum
28th May 2010, 16:15
Boo don’t insult teenagers ;)
I don’t see any problem with the title;
Were Mclaren fastest again? Yes.
Were Redbull hit by reliability issues for the 100th time? Yes.
What else can he say about it?
Ratboy
28th May 2010, 19:38
Maybe HRT slowest in FP2 whilst De la Rosa ends up 14th ?
;)
Terry Fabulous
28th May 2010, 14:28
Mate this isn’t a site for you to take shots at people and especially not at the webmaster.
Manners please.
TommyC
28th May 2010, 14:38
i must admit though, he has provided me with quite an amusing evening which is quite welcome given the stresses of uni at this time of the year.
sato113
28th May 2010, 17:50
i don’t understand what’s wrong with the title. and i’m certainly not a ‘fanboy’.
haha
28th May 2010, 14:14
I apologise for trolls like me. They just don’t know how luck ythey are to have places like here for commentary, pictures and sharing of ideas/opinions.
If you want well thought out headlines, you need to wait few more hours for other related posts.
Rob
28th May 2010, 14:24
I was watching practice with the sound off – does anyone know what Mark Webber was trying to communicate to the marshalls that they blatantly couldn’t understand? When he got out of the car I was expecting him to start trying to push it somewhere by himself!
A,
28th May 2010, 14:27
He was trying to tell them to put the fire extinguisher behind one of this tyres to prevent the car from roll backwards and they took a long time to understand what he was on about.
HounslowBusGarage
28th May 2010, 14:30
At the risk of revealing ignorance, is there no parking-type brake in an F1 car?
SloMo
28th May 2010, 15:01
He wanted them to block the tires because presumably he cant keep the brakes on in one place due to the heat. If I had to guess holding the car in one spot would cause the breaks to fuse together or catch on fire.
HounslowBusGarage
28th May 2010, 15:10
Understand. Ta.
Sush Meerkat
28th May 2010, 15:22
It would boil the brake fluids and destroy stuff.
Ben
29th May 2010, 6:22
basically if you keep the pads on the discs at high temps they will fuse together.
If you ever take your car to a track day, never put the handbrake on after doing your laps until the car cools down for exactly this reason.
Rob
28th May 2010, 15:28
Cheers for that. I can understand why they had trouble understanding – imagine trying to play charades and getting “Please put that fire extiguisher over there behind my front wheel so I don’t roll backwards into a wall”…
Patrickl
28th May 2010, 14:29
He wanted them to stop his car from rolling backwards. In the end they understood that he wanted them to lodged the fire extinguisher under the tyre.
Andrew
28th May 2010, 14:29
So saying McLaren was fastest, Button at top of the charts, and Red Bull having reliability problems, Weber stopping on track and Vettel requiring a parts swap, is somehow inaccurate or hype? Seems to me a succinct wrap-up of practice, Red Bull is the chassis with the most potential lately so of interest to most fans, and McLaren was the fastest in the session so of importance as well.
Stick with the clear informative headlines Keith as always.
TommyC
28th May 2010, 14:41
couldn’t agree more. it’s almost so good you don’t actually have to read the article to know what’s happened. if only all journalists could do that.
PJA
28th May 2010, 14:55
This being the internet there will always be a fanboy or someone who doesn’t like a title or an article.
Jalwarim
28th May 2010, 14:36
I reckon this F1Fanatic site is fantastic. All the comments, the photos and the links. Go Webber…..
TommyC
28th May 2010, 14:43
do you think it’s fortunate in a way that webber had his problem today and not at the start of FP3? hopefully the issue can be resolved for tomorrow which will mean he won’t actually lose any running time at all.
FLIG
28th May 2010, 15:11
I miss the days when the heated discussions were about racing skills and drivers’ personalities, all with a minimum level of education and common sense. I was part of the “troublemakers” in recent years, but these new guys are just awful – Complaining about Headlines? Get a life. Keith deserves nothing but praise for this place.
Dane
28th May 2010, 15:21
Curedcat sure is one angry dude. Ive never heard of a complaint of a headline before. LOL
Bertie
28th May 2010, 15:14
Red bulls always sand bag in the practise session but what is the most terrifying is that when you look at the sector times they have a 0.5 second advantage in sector 2.
schooner
28th May 2010, 15:18
It may be stating the obvious, but the fact that Webber needed that fire extinguisher behind the front tire to keep his car from rolling back suggests it was gearbox failure that put him out. Will he get a grid penalty if he gets a new one?
schooner
28th May 2010, 15:24
Nevermind ! I just read elsewhere that it was the engine (supposedly right at the end of it’s life expectancy) that blew.
faltbeta
28th May 2010, 15:30
Stuck at mining site have no TV out here, any one have a torrent for second practise?
TomD11
28th May 2010, 15:44
IIRC didn’t Vettel have an engine failure in FP2 last year, in exactly the same place.
steph
28th May 2010, 15:52
Big thank you to Mark Webber for the hilarious arm waving. He was just so irate and I understand but it just became so comical. This weekend hasn’t been the mostn exciting but with karun setting the slowest ever lap around Turkey (even wondering if he would roll down the hill at one point) and Webber’s manic arm flinging it has been comedy.
DanThorn
28th May 2010, 16:01
Don’t forget Schu giving Massa a wave!
Johnny86
28th May 2010, 16:04
I’m begin’n to like this guy Karun. I mean he isn’t arrogant and is quite humourous.i like it
Adam Smith
28th May 2010, 16:18
“showed a clear advantage on the stopwatch as well”
I disagree Keith, look at the times?!
Ade
28th May 2010, 16:36
Check thee fastest sector times, in S2 where the T8 is, the 2 red bulls are 4 tenth quicker than any other team there, that’s 4 tenth of a light year in F1.
Glenn
28th May 2010, 19:36
Red Bull are once again toying with everyone. I suspect during FP# they will be deep into the 01:27’s cropping Half a second in S1, and S3.
Did anyone else catch during FP1 they showed the on-board lap of Vettel driving through turn 8 and he took his hand of the sterring wheel to activiate the F-Duct?
They might have been running with the limiter on but still carrying a good bit of speed and Stalling the Rear wing during arguably on the most downforce dependent corners of the year.
If I saw it correctly these guys must be making soo much downforce from the Diffuser they can afford to the stall the wing. Toying.
Electrolite
28th May 2010, 20:53
I know we don’t know the fuel loads and tires etc, but well done to Vitaly for getting ahead of Massa in a Ferrari. Showed promise in the other practice too.