2020 Turkish Grand Prix - Instanbul Park, Nov 13 - 15

[Julien]

Hi!

What would be your prediction times for the pole in this totally uncertain qualifying section?

Would you say it will be rather 1'38 or 1'55?

[Mogster]

so now its clear

I thought the same people that re-surfaced other grade 1 tracks lately had done this.

The track surface is anything but “open” so that bit doesn’t make any sense. The tarmac looks very well laid, I’m sure it hasn’t been done by the local council road crew... The problem I’d imagine is it needs a little bit of wear to expose the aggregate and provide grip, there’s a lot of oil on the surface still also.

[nzjrs]

Argh RB sending Verstappen out with inters. Nailbiting

[Herr_Koos]

Red flag. It's stupidly wet now.

[Mogster]

Good call. Everyone’s crawling round and the forecast is for better. Gasley covered the track in mud after his off.

[MtthsMlw]

That will be a long afternoon

[Juzh]

so now its clear

I thought the same people that re-surfaced other grade 1 tracks lately had done this.

The track surface is anything but “open” so that bit doesn’t make any sense. The tarmac looks very well laid, I’m sure it hasn’t been done by the local council road crew... The problem I’d imagine is it needs a little bit of wear to expose the aggregate and provide grip, there’s a lot of oil on the surface still also.

On some tracks grip was there immediately after resurfacing. Barcelona, new silverstone, hungaroring to name a few. Laptimes fell by second instantly, no need to wait months for surface to "set in". It's clear cost cuts were made with this sub-par asphalt.

[nzjrs]

Rainy session saving the reputation of the Turkish grand prix at the moment. Imagine the general public tuning in an seeing it super slippery but in the dry.

[ismail1991]

It is 11 deg celcius out there, it is winter in turkey. I dont think the asphalt is only thing to blame. It wasnt logical to set a race weekend on november in turkey

[63l8qrrfy6]

What is the point in deleting laptimes for exceeding track limits in these conditions?

[Schippke]

A pity that we probably won't see this track back on the calendar in the future again... obvious this year has been an exceptional set of circumstances... but maybe they should organise to get Turkey to replace the spot not vacated by the Vietnamese Grand Prix; Hopefully then, during the warmer time and with a better settled track, we could see the cars at their absolute best around here.

[nzjrs]

It is 11 deg celcius out there, it is winter in turkey. I dont think the asphalt is only thing to blame. It wasnt logical to set a race weekend on november in turkey

You know the old saying, "you can't control the weather, but you can control not resurfacing the track 10 days before a grand prix"

[ismail1991]

It is 11 deg celcius out there, it is winter in turkey. I dont think the asphalt is only thing to blame. It wasnt logical to set a race weekend on november in turkey

You know the old saying, "you can't control the weather, but you can control not resurfacing the track 10 days before a grand prix"

You are right, I am not saying the resurfacing was not a mistake. I am saying setting a race weekend in winter in Turkey was a mistake. Would f1 cars be able to race in 10 deg Celcius in rain at Spa or Nurburgring?

[Moore77]

A lot of hindsight geniuses here!

[El Scorchio]

Hahahaha so much for safety. Perilous track and a crane on the circuit and they let the cars out. Masi is a complete idiot. Let’s put to bed that ‘safety’ reasoning for the continuous safety cars over VSC for every little incident this season then.