Official 2020 Turkish Grand Prix **SPOILERS**

[Piginapoke]

Round 14 and Turkey, one of Tilke’s better efforts. Plans for 100,000 spectators to attend have been shelved, thankfully, so it’s another behind-closed-doors race. The circuit runs anti clockwise, which is unusual.

Kimi won the 1st Turkish GP in 2005! Presumably in 2020, Lewis will win from Bottas and Verstappen once again.

Look out for the earlier start times.

Here’s Vettel’s lovely 2011 pole lap: https://youtu.be/c7lFZD6pN2E

Date(s): Friday 13 November 2020 - Sunday 15 November 2020

UK Broadcast Timings (and local time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1; Channel 4 showing highlights of Race and Qualifying:





Live timing for all sessions available here:

https://www.formula1.com/en/f1-live.html

Lap times, PU component use, technical reports and Stewards' decisions for the weekend will appear here:

https://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-c...

Weather forecast:
https://weather.com/en-GB/weather/today/l/41.19,28...

Tyre options:



2019 Race Result:

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2019 race highlights:

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[Piginapoke]

tobinen said:

I am not sure why you're thankful. The fans should be at GPs.

Nonetheless, thanks for kicking off the thread.

Turkey has 400K CV19 cases (with cases rising rapidly) and 11K deaths, so a plan to get 100K people together didn't seem all that smart to me, apologies if you disagree

[Piginapoke]

Just tuned in to see no cars on track. A good argument for 2 day weekends maybe.

[Piginapoke]

I've missed all the stuff about the track. So a multi billion pound sport and an un-driveable circuit. Right.

[Piginapoke]

JonChalk said:

Piginapoke said:

I've missed all the stuff about the track. So a multi billion pound sport and an un-driveable circuit. Right.

Perfectly driveable at the end of FP2 yesterday - now it's no better or worse than any track with standing water.

Lewis seemed to think otherwise yesterday

[Piginapoke]

JonChalk said:

TheDeuce said:

JonChalk said:

Piginapoke said:

I've missed all the stuff about the track. So a multi billion pound sport and an un-driveable circuit. Right.

Perfectly driveable at the end of FP2 yesterday - now it's no better or worse than any track with standing water.

It's definitely worse than other tracks with standing water - because in between the standing water they additionally have the problem that the surface itself is inherently very green and slippery still.

OK, maybe not "the best" surface (obvs), but any track in the world at 12 degrees track temp, covered in standing water, with wet tyres not up to temperatures, is going to be "undriveable".

https://youtu.be/jpX_7NomJ4k

[Piginapoke]

Stroll on pole. I give up.