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# Podcast: Turkish GP’s wild performance swings explained
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/podcast-the-turkish-gps-wild-performance-swings-explained/
- Published: 2020-11-16T06:15:11.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-16T17:42:54.000Z
- Description: Mercedes won the Turkish Grand Prix but Racing Point or Red Bull looked set to, and Ferrari and McLaren flew too. We make sense of a wild weekend
- Author: Matt Beer
- Tags: Formula 1, #image-bottom-center

Mercedes miles off the pace, Racing Point in control. Then Red Bull looking like it would charge through to victory.

Then suddenly Lewis Hamilton going from 5s off the pace to pulling away, with Ferrari and McLaren the other fastest cars on track.

And Valtteri Bottas spinning, spinning and spinning again.

The Turkish Grand Prix was far from ordinary. Mark Hughes, Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw make sense of its wild performance swings in the Istanbul episode of The Race F1 Podcast.

As well as assessing every driver’s weekend – with particular focus on what Max Verstappen’s eventful time in Turkey said about him – they also tackle the controversy over Q2 being started while a recovery vehicle was still next to the track.

[Nov 15 : Turkish Grand Prix review](https://www.spreaker.com/episode/41991931?ref=the-race.com)