Turkish Grand Prix

Red Bull's fortunes weren't the same in Turkey as they were in Monaco.

In Qualifying Red Bull took another pole position, or more accuratly Mark Webber did. However this time there was a twist. A twist in the form of 2 silver cars. Lewis Hamilton split the two Red Bulls with Jenson Button behind Sebastian Vettel. The other 2 silver cars of Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg filled up row 3. Felipe Massa split the Renault's of Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov while Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi rounded off the top ten.

Observers among you will notice that Fernando Alonso's name isn't among them. He struggled during qualifying and ended up behind Adrian Sutil in P12. Force India's other driver Vitantonio Liuzzi was back in P18 also due to poor showing. It wasn't all doom and gloom though, the recently Uncool Hispania team qualifyed ahead of another team on their own merits when Bruno Senna beat Lucas di Grassi for P22.

From the off the race was a four horse race. The Red Bulls pulled away as they usually do but this time the McLaren's kept with them. Hamilton kept edging closer to Vettel until a tactical screw up by McLaren. A poor choice of pit stop time saw Hamilton rejoin behind the second Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel. Behind them, everyone else was bunching up behind Michael Schumacher. The focus was on the front 4. Things were going Red Bull's way until lap 40. Sebastian Vettel decidedto have a go at overtaking Mark Webber and well the picture explains it all. Vettel's race was finished. Webber's car was damaged and had to pit. This handed the lead to Lewis Hamilton. A couple of laps later after Webber had rejoined in 3rd place, it was McLaren's time to crap their pants. Nicole Scherzinger, girlfriend of Lewis Hamilton nearly had a heart attack when Jenson Button attempted a similar move. Jenson got ahead but Hamilton kept his cool and retook the positin bringing the McLaren cars too close together. Needless to say, things calmed down after that.

Lewis Hamilton lead a McLaren one-two while Webber salvaged a 3rd place. Schumacher lead a Mercedes 4-5 ahead of Renault's Robert Kubica. Felipe Massa lead a Ferrari 7-8 with Force India's Adrian Sutil and Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi finishing the top ten.

To make Red Bull's Weekend worse Sebastian Vettel dumped "Luscious Liz" and got into his new car "Randy Mandy".