Fastest Laps of the Turkish GP

By Nikos
August 22 2005

The 2005 Turkish Grand Prix was very eventful and a nail-bitter for all. McLaren had high hopes with both drivers running very heavy in good positions. Renault and Alonso had high hopes to win to try and cement WCC and WDC victory as early as possible. Williams had qualified well and needed to show improvement on the FW27. Ferrari looked on good form at Hungary and was hoping for good form at Turkey after spending one and a half weeks testing during the 3week testing ban. BARs Jensen Button wanted to improve on his 5th placing at Hungary, but his spin during qualifying would make life harder. Here are the times from the 2005 Grand Prix of Turkey:

PLACE
 DRIVERS NAME
 TEAM NAME
 FASTEST LAP TIME
 LAP
1
 J.P Montoya
 McLaren-Mercedes
 1:24.770 39
2
 K, Raikkonen
 McLaren-Mercedes
 1:25.030 (+ 0.260 ) 40
3
 F. Alonso
 Renault
 1:25.524 (+ 0.754 ) 58
4
 G. Fisichella
 Renault
 1:25.604 (+ 0.834 ) 34
5
 J. Button
 BAR-Honda
 1:25.790 (+ 1.020 ) 58
6
 T. Sato
 BAR-Honda
 1:25.858 (+ 1.088 ) 54
7
 J. Trulli
 Toyota
 1:26.178 (+ 1.408 ) 52
8
 C. Klien
 RedBull Racing
 1:26.374 (+ 1.604 ) 58
9
 D. Coulthard
 RedBull Racing
 1:26.417 (+ 1.647 ) 58
10
 F. Massa
 Sauber
 1:26.514 (+ 1.744 ) 27
11
 R. Barrichello
 Ferrari
 1:26.635 (+ 1.865 ) 45
12
 M. Webber
 Williams-BMW
 1:26.791 (+ 2.021 ) 12
13
 J. Villeneuve
 Sauber
 1:26.967 (+ 2.197 ) 44
14
 M. Scumacher
 Ferrari
 1:26.991 (+ 2.221 ) 21
15
 R. Schumacher
 Toyota
 1:27.025 (+ 2.255 ) 38
16
 N. Heidfeld
 Williams-BMW
 1:27.353 (+ 2.583 ) 25
17
 T. Montiero
 Jordan
 1:29.035 (+ 4.265 ) 50
18
 R. Doornbos
 Minardi
 1:29.229 (+ 4.459 ) 53
19
 N. Karthikeyan
 Jordan
 1:29.286 (+ 4.516 ) 42
20
 C. Albers
 Minardi
 1:29.392 (+ 4.622 ) 13

What is promising about this table is that BAR-Honda have very good pace.
This is good for McLaren because for McLaren & Raikkonen to win the WCC and WDC titles they need Renault to finish lower in the points.
Once again McLaren set the fastest lap times showing that the MP4-20 is the fastest car on the grid.
Monza is up in two-weeks and McLaren are in a good position for another victory, hopefully BAR can play a bigger role in the next GP to Renaults detriment.

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