Lotus Racing F1 Team Race Report: Turkish GP

The Turkish GP on the 30th of May looks to be a sort of a title-deciding race. After qualifying for pole on Saturday's qualifying, Red Bull's Mark Webber looks like the favourite to take the winner's trophy following on his 2 consecutive wins at the Spainand Monaco. Team-mate Sebastian Webber took the 3rd spot with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button qualified at 2nd and 4th respectively. Webber kept his position from the start of the race with Hamilton chasing him close behind until the first pit-stop. Vettel pitted first before Webber and Hamilton did so on the next lap, which gave Vettel 2nd place upon the leading duo' exit from the pits. Button, who was enjoying a quiet afternoon in a not-so-distant 4th after earlier being overtaken by Michael Schumacher at the start, caught up with the three and together with Hamilton piled the presure on the Red Bull drivers. Webber and Vettel finally cracked under the pressure, with the duo colliding with each other on the 4oth lap, which costed Vettel's race and Webber slipped to 3rd after needing to pit for damage. A few laps later, Button tried to pull the same overtaking maneuvre on his team-mate which he succeeded for a few corners only to be overtaken again later down the main straight leading into the first corner. In the end though, McLaren still dominated the afternoon with their second 1-2 finish of the season with Hamilton first and Button second. A bitter Webber came home a distant 24 seconds behind in third. While the McLarens celebrated their victory, it was yet another heartbreak for the Lotus Racing team. A double hydraulic failure ruled Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen out of the race. To make matters worst, Force India is now suing them for alleged breach of intellectual property, citing "components and tyres exclusively licensed by Bridgestone to the Force India F1 Team, on its wind tunnel model design for the current Lotus T127 chassis without permission from the Force India F1 Team.