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A bullish Lewis Hamilton vowed to take things ‘sensibly’ at the start of the Turkish GP after splitting the Red Bulls to qualify a superb second in Istanbul – and then ‘apply maximum pressure’.
After safely progressing through Q1 and Q2 in Turkey, Lewis impressively took the fight to Webber and Vettel, and although not quite able to pip the former, he took advantage of the latter’s braking woes to pinch second place. And now he wants to go one spot better again on race day.
“Tomorrow, I’m going to do everything I can to get a sensible start, get round the first corner and then challenge Mark, if I can,” said Hamilton.
“I’m on the dirtier side of the track, so that may make it a bit harder for me, and the Red Bulls still have a performance advantage over us, even if it doesn’t show from today’s times – but we’re going to catch them and then, hopefully, you’ll see Jenson and me up there, with the Red Bulls trying to split us.
“I really do believe we’re the best team out there and, once we make that next step, I’m sure we can move ahead of everyone – but until then, all we can do is to be as close as we can and apply maximum pressure, and that’s exactly what we’ll be doing tomorrow.”
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Vladimir commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 2:49 pm
My congratulations! On the podium only Brits!
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RWF commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 3:02 pm
They said Hamilton is an aggressive driver, hahahaha. Look at Vettel!! He is the epiphany of aggressive driving! But who couldn’t see soon or later in the race the two Red Bulls we going to have an issue. Great job Hammy!!! You really kept the pressure on and muscling Jenson out the way, hahahaha. F1 is alive!!
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ABC commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Seems like Lewis is a psychic. Great race today.
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Anonymous commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 3:26 pm
i think this is the race where mclaren overtake red bull in the development race
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Ashish commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 3:50 pm
yeah a couple of guys have still kept F1 alive despite those new meaningless regulations
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Ashish commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 3:53 pm
in formula-1 your biggest rival is always your team mate
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kimithe rallydriver commented on this article
Sunday May 30, 2010 at 4:30 pm
red bull gives you a nervous twitch at the worst possible time..
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RonnyS commented on this article
Monday May 31, 2010 at 9:35 pm
With good help from Michael S and Team Mercedes, in several races now MS has been the slow driver making traffic and nobody passing. Lewis must be so happy for all the help he gets from Team Mercedes!
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Martin01 commented on this article
Tuesday June 1, 2010 at 9:13 am
Shame about the negative comments about drivers. They are brilliant drivers all, and went for the points. Great racing, real racing. Wonderful to watch from start to finish. Congrats Red Bull for continuing to develop a wonderful car& congrats to Maclaren for responding to the challenge.
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ioio commented on this article
Tuesday June 1, 2010 at 11:49 am
2010 at 3:26 pm
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i think this is the race where Mclaren overtake red bull in the development race
I don’t think so. I think this was a bad track for the red bulls and competition was tighter then on other tracks. What is worrying is that if this is their bad track then the other teams must be really worried as Red Bull were still unbeatable on their bad track. Only bad driving let Mclaren win. Mclaren is still not quick enough to beat the Red Bulls in a straight fight.
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jessica commented on this article
Friday February 4, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Istanbul is so great! the love city…
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