Massa won the pole and led for most of the race, finishing first. Hamilton, on a three stop strategy, did pass him on the track, but Massa got the lead back when Hamilton had to pit. Hamilton was able to hold on to second place, even under pressure from Raikonnen, who finished third. The Ferrari was dominant for the whole weekend, and they could have had a 1-2 finish if Raikonnen had had a better qualifying attempt, and hadn’t hit Kovalainen in the first corner, damaging his front wing.

The start in Turkey is always the same, with a real benefit to being on the clean side of the track, as was proved when the first three on the clean side passed the first three on the dirty side.

Hamilton had a good race, but should have been on pole after qualifying with a light load of fuel. The problem McLaren had is that they couldn’t get the soft tyre to work at all, and couldn’t get the car to work in the last 1/3 of the track. Kovalainen had an excellent qualifying session, starting in 2nd place. This though, put him on the dirty side of the track, and then he was hit by Raikonnen in the first corner giving him a slow puncture. His race was effectively over at this time, but it was fun to watch him passing other drivers as he tried to move up the field and finally finished twelfth.

BMW had a good weekend with Kubica finishing fourth, and Heidfeld finishing fifth.

Renault once again showed that it has improved the car, with Alonso finishing sixth. A lot of the credit has to go to Alonso’s skills though, with Piquet finishing fifteenth.

Red Bull had a very good weekend with both drivers making the top ten after qualifying. Mark Weber finished seventh and Coulthard finished ninth. In addition, David Coulthard managed to finish a race without hitting anyone else.

Rosberg finished eighth with his teammate Nakajima being taken out in the first corner by a stupid move by Fisichella. I don’t know what he was thinking when he drove over the top of Nakajima, and we can only be thankful that the accident wasn’t much worse.

Toyota did not have a good weekend with poor qualifying attempts, and Trulli finishing tenth and Glock finishing thirteenth.

Honda also had a poor weekend, with a car that was significantly slower than any of the other cars in the speed trap. Button finished eleventh and Barrichello finishing fourteenth in his 257th race, setting a new record for longevity in Formula 1.

Force India did not have a good weekend, and with Fisichella’s stupid move, it didn’t help. Sutil finished sixteenth.

Finally Sebastian Vettel was classified seventeenth, which really was a good race for him as he wasn’t taken out in the first corner. Bourdais was out with a mechanical problem on the 25th lap.

Now we move on to Monaco.

World Championship standings, round 5:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Raikkonen     35        1.  Ferrari                63
 2.  Hamilton      28        2.  BMW Sauber             44
 3.  Massa         28        3.  McLaren-Mercedes       42
 4.  Kubica        24        4.  Williams-Toyota        13
 5.  Heidfeld      20        5.  Red Bull-Renault       10
 6.  Kovalainen    14        6.  Renault                 9
 7.  Webber        10        7.  Toyota                  9
 8.  Alonso         9        8.  Honda                   3
 9.  Trulli         9        9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari      2
10.  Rosberg        8
11.  Nakajima       5
12.  Button         3
13.  Bourdais       2