2021 Turkish Grand Prix

2021 Turkish Grand Prix
Race 16 of 22[1] in the 2021 Formula One World Championship
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Track layout of the Istanbul Park circuit. The track runs anticlockwise and has fourteen corners, varying from sharp hairpins to the long sweeping eighth turn. The pit lane entry is located between turns thirteen and fourteen and the pit lane exit is located between turns one and two.
Layout of the Istanbul Park Circuit
Race details[2][3]
Date 10 October 2021
Official name Formula 1 Rolex Turkish Grand Prix 2021
Location Istanbul Park, Tuzla, Istanbul
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.338 km (3.316 miles)
Distance 58 laps, 309.396 km (192.249 miles)
Weather Overcast with intermittent rain
Attendance 190,000[4]
Pole position
Driver
Mercedes
Time 1:22.998
Fastest lap
Driver Finland Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
Time 1:30.432 on lap 58
Podium
First
Mercedes
Second
Red Bull Racing-Honda
Third
Red Bull Racing-Honda
Lap leaders

The 2021 Turkish Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Rolex Turkish Grand Prix 2021) was a Formula One motor race, held on 10 October 2021 at Istanbul Park in Tuzla, Istanbul. It was the sixteenth of twenty-two rounds of the 2021 Formula One World Championship.[1] This was also the last Turkish Grand Prix, as the race had not been contracted for the 2022 season and beyond.

Lewis Hamilton, driving for Mercedes set the fastest lap time in qualifying but started 11th after the application of grid penalties. This promoted team-mate Valtteri Bottas to pole position. Bottas won the race, with the fastest lap, with Red Bull drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez finishing second and third. It turned out to be Bottas's last win with Mercedes before moving to Alfa Romeo next season, and as of the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, the most recent Grand Prix win by a Finnish driver.

  1. ^ a b Smith, Luke (28 August 2021). "Formula 1 reveals updated 2021 calendar, drops to 22 races". Autosport. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Turke 2021". Formula1. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. ^ Dodgins, Tony; Hamilton, Maurice; Hughes, Mark; Kirby, Gordon (8 January 2021). Autocourse 2020-2021. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Icon Publishing Limited. pp. 272–281. ISBN 978-1910584-42-2.
  4. ^ "Formula 1 announces TV, race attendance and digital audience figures for 2021". Formula1.com. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hamilton was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bottas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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