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Turkish Grand Prix \

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Turkish Grand Prix

Honda misses out on top ten Following a frustrating qualifying session at Istanbul Park, the Honda team will start tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix from the sixth and seventh rows of the grid. Rubens Barrichello will line up in 12th place and Jenson Button 13th, after the pair set lap times less than 0.1s apart. "It was a good effort from everyone today however unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey," said Barrichello. "It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today. I could not get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sector were good, but the third sector was not working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3." Button commented, "I have to be reasonably pleased with 13th as we were struggling to get the tyres working in qualifying today. Q1 was not too bad and we completed both runs on the prime tyre. We switched to the option for my first run in Q2 as everyone seemed to be going quicker on that tyre but for some reason the option didn't work for me and I had no grip. So we went back to the prime which should be about three-tenths slower around here so 13th is not too bad. It's annoying that we can't get the option to work but our prime tyre pace is very good, particularly over longer runs." Honda chief engineer Steve Clark added, "The issues we had were with the tyres and trying to get grip from the prime or a balance on the option tyre. We saw this morning that the two tyres behaved differently and the two drivers split their strategy in Q1 because of this. In the second session neither car had the pace to get into the top ten. We had no problems aside from being able to get the most out of the tyres, so obviously this is a disappointment as we felt that we had made a little more progress here."

Honda misses out on top ten Following a frustrating qualifying session at Istanbul Park, the Honda team will start tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix from the sixth and seventh rows of the grid. Rubens Barrichello will line up in 12th place and Jenson Button 13th, after the pair set lap times less than 0.1s apart. "It was a good effort from everyone today however unfortunately we are not as fast as we thought we might be here in Turkey," said Barrichello. "It is a balance problem, rather than the tyres or grip levels, and I believe we achieved the best that we could today. I could not get the car to perform well over the whole lap. The first and second sector were good, but the third sector was not working for us. Realistically this is where the car is at the moment. We need another step to make us a regular qualifier into Q3." Button commented, "I have to be reasonably pleased with 13th as we were struggling to get the tyres working in qualifying today. Q1 was not too bad and we completed both runs on the prime tyre. We switched to the option for my first run in Q2 as everyone seemed to be going quicker on that tyre but for some reason the option didn't work for me and I had no grip. So we went back to the prime which should be about three-tenths slower around here so 13th is not too bad. It's annoying that we can't get the option to work but our prime tyre pace is very good, particularly over longer runs." Honda chief engineer Steve Clark added, "The issues we had were with the tyres and trying to get grip from the prime or a balance on the option tyre. We saw this morning that the two tyres behaved differently and the two drivers split their strategy in Q1 because of this. In the second session neither car had the pace to get into the top ten. We had no problems aside from being able to get the most out of the tyres, so obviously this is a disappointment as we felt that we had made a little more progress here."

Red Bulls happily in top ten Both Red Bull Racing cars made it into the final qualifying session and the top ten for tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix. Mark Webber led the way in sixth and Coulthard ended up tenth. "It's good to get P6 today, after letting the team down yesterday with a bit of a shunt," said Webber. "The only downside of today's result is that we're on the left-hand side of the grid, but, apart from that, it went very well. We're in reasonable shape to get some good points tomorrow, we'll just have to keep our nose clean and have good clean pit stops. It's going to be an interesting race, the team has done a great job today - to get both cars into Q3 was a good effort." Coulthard commented, "I'm happy to be through to the top ten after problems at the last two grands prix. We used all our option tyres to get there though, two sets in Q1 and two sets in Q2, as I didn't want to take any risks. As a result, we only had primes left at the end. We only did one run in Q3 as we wanted to save fuel, so the car was very heavy." Team boss Christian Horner added, "A strong team performance in this morning's practice was converted into solid grid positions this afternoon for tomorrow's race. Mark used his head in the final session (Q3) and aborted a lap he wasn't entirely happy with, which meant he saved a lap of fuel. He then did an excellent lap and extracted everything from the car on option tyres to get P6. David did an excellent job to get comfortably through to Q3. As he had no soft tyres left for his final run, we were always adopting a strategic game with him. It was a strong team performance."

Turkish Grand Prix Qualifying 1 F. Massa 1:27.617 2 H. Kovalainen 1:27.808 3 L. Hamilton 1:27.923 4 K. Räikkönen 1:27.936 5 R. Kubica 1:28.390 6 M. Webber 1:28.417 7 F. Alonso 1:28.422 8 J. Trulli 1:28.836 9 N. Heidfeld 1:28.882 10 D. Coulthard 1:29.959 11 N. Rosberg 1:27.012 12 R. Barrichello 1:27.219 13 J. Button 1:27.298 14 S. Vettel 1:27.412 15 T. Glock 1:27.806 16 K. Nakajima 1:27.547 17 N. Piquet jr. 1:27.568 18 S. Bourdais 1:27.568 19 G. Fisichella 1:27.807 20 A. Sutil 1:28.325

Turkish Grand Prix Qualifying 1 F. Massa 1:27.617 2 H. Kovalainen 1:27.808 3 L. Hamilton 1:27.923 4 K. Räikkönen 1:27.936 5 R. Kubica 1:28.390 6 M. Webber 1:28.417 7 F. Alonso 1:28.422 8 J. Trulli 1:28.836 9 N. Heidfeld 1:28.882 10 D. Coulthard 1:29.959 11 N. Rosberg 1:27.012 12 R. Barrichello 1:27.219 13 J. Button 1:27.298 14 S. Vettel 1:27.412 15 T. Glock 1:27.806 16 K. Nakajima 1:27.547 17 N. Piquet jr. 1:27.568 18 S. Bourdais 1:27.568 19 G. Fisichella 1:27.807 20 A. Sutil 1:28.325

Turkish Grand Prix 3rd Free Practice 1 M. Webber 1:27.030 16 2 F. Alonso 1:27.172 13 3 D. Coulthard 1:27.193 15 4 N. Rosberg 1:27.365 16 5 F. Massa 1:27.530 13 6 J. Trulli 1:27.614 15 7 L. Hamilton 1:27.658 18 8 T. Glock 1:27.733 22 9 J. Button 1:27.766 16 10 N. Piquet jr. 1:27.781 14 11 K. Räikkönen 1:27.837 14 12 H. Kovalainen 1:27.849 13 13 S. Vettel 1:27.899 18 14 R. Barrichello 1:27.946 14 15 S. Bourdais 1:27.948 17 16 R. Kubica 1:27.971 16 17 K. Nakajima 1:28.301 14 18 G. Fisichella 1:28.573 18 19 N. Heidfeld 1:28.655 19 20 A. Sutil 1:29.131 19

Turkish Grand Prix 3rd Free Practice 1 M. Webber 1:27.030 16 2 F. Alonso 1:27.172 13 3 D. Coulthard 1:27.193 15 4 N. Rosberg 1:27.365 16 5 F. Massa 1:27.530 13 6 J. Trulli 1:27.614 15 7 L. Hamilton 1:27.658 18 8 T. Glock 1:27.733 22 9 J. Button 1:27.766 16 10 N. Piquet jr. 1:27.781 14 11 K. Räikkönen 1:27.837 14 12 H. Kovalainen 1:27.849 13 13 S. Vettel 1:27.899 18 14 R. Barrichello 1:27.946 14 15 S. Bourdais 1:27.948 17 16 R. Kubica 1:27.971 16 17 K. Nakajima 1:28.301 14 18 G. Fisichella 1:28.573 18 19 N. Heidfeld 1:28.655 19 20 A. Sutil 1:29.131 19

NAPOLI-MILAN GOALKEEPERS: Fiori, Kalac, Offredi; DEFENDERS: Bonera, Digao, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Nesta, Oddo, Serginho, Simic, Ambrosini; MIDFIELDERS: Ba, Brocchi, Gattuso, Kakà, Seedorf; STRIKERS: Gilardino, Inzaghi, Pato.

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NAPOLI-MILAN GOALKEEPERS: Fiori, Kalac, Offredi; DEFENDERS: Bonera, Digao, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Nesta, Oddo, Serginho, Simic, Ambrosini; MIDFIELDERS: Ba, Brocchi, Gattuso, Kakà, Seedorf; STRIKERS: Gilardino, Inzaghi, Pato.