Turkish Grand Prix facts and figures

Posted at 12:00am on 03 June 2009

June 3 (Reuters) - Facts and figures for Sunday's Turkish Formula One Grand Prix:

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Circuit: Istanbul Park

Total distance: 58 laps of 5.338 km/3.317 miles (309.396 km/192.250 miles)

2008 pole position: Felipe Massa (Brazil) Ferrari, one minute 27.617 seconds.

Race lap record: Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) McLaren 1:24.770 (2005)

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Previous form of leading drivers:

2008 2007 2006 2005

Jenson Button 11 13 4 5

Rubens Barrichello 14 17 8 10

Sebastian Vettel 17 19 - -

Mark Webber 7 R 10 R

Jarno Trulli 10 16 9 6

Timo Glock 13 - - -

Fernando Alonso 6 3 2 2

Kimi Raikkonen 3 2 R 1

Lewis Hamilton 2 5 - -

Felipe Massa 1 1 1 R

Nico Rosberg 8 7 R -

Nick Heidfeld 5 4 14 R

Heikki Kovalainen 12 6 - -

Sebastien Bourdais R - - -

Giancarlo Fisichella R 9 6 4

Adrian Sutil 16 21 - -

Nelson Piquet 15 - - -

Robert Kubica 4 8 12 -

Kazuki Nakajima R - - -

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Previous races:

2008 - Felipe Massa (Ferrari)

Massa won from pole for the third year in a row, with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton slowing because of concerns about wear of his front tyre. Honda's Brazilian Rubens Barrichello made a record 257th race start. -

2007 - Massa, Ferrari

Massa won from pole position again while Lewis Hamilton suffered a puncture 15 laps from the end that dropped him from third to fifth. Raikkonen was runner-up in Ferrari's second one-two of the season.

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2006 - Massa, Ferrari

Massa followed up his first Formula One pole position with his first grand prix victory. Renault's Alonso beat Ferrari's Michael Schumacher to second place by barely half a car's length after a nose-to-tail duel over the closing laps.

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2005 - Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) McLaren

Raikkonen won from pole position while Alonso finished second, leaving the Spaniard 24 points clear of the Finn with five races to go. He was helped by McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya, who spun on the penultimate lap while his team were heading for their first one-two finish in five years.

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CIRCUIT DETAILS

The undulating layout is one of three anti-clockwise tracks in the championship (the others being Interlagos in Brazil and Singapore).

Likened to Spa in Belgium, it has 14 turns -- six of them right-handers -- and four straights. About 67 percent of each lap is spent at full throttle.

The left-handed triple apex turn eight is a real test, taken at around 250kph and generating some of the highest G-forces of any circuit.

The Hermann Tilke-designed circuit is on the Asian side of Istanbul. Track temperatures can reach 55 Celsius (131 Fahrenheit).

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Neil Maidment; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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