In the midst of his incredible rookie season, surely the greatest yet seen, Lewis Hamilton arrived for his first Turkish GP with a slender seven-point lead over McLaren team-mate and now double world champion Alonso. Hamilton’s ripped tyre blows his podium – 2007 The honour would soon be Alonso’s as he claimed the first of his back-to-back world championships.
The moment caused Montoya to flat-spot a tyre and with two laps to go, he ran wide through the long Turn 8, allowing Alonso to snatch second place, ruin a McLaren 1-2 and help the Spaniard keep Räikkönen at bay in their title duel. Kimi won in Turkey quite comfortably, but team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya dropped a clanger after Tiago Monteiro’s Jordan hit him while being lapped. Fernando Alonso had built an early points lead for Renault, but Kimi Räikkönen’s Adrian Newey-designed McLaren – like the French team, running on the more competitive Michelins – was now flying. The first Turkish Grand Prix at one of track designer Hermann Tilke’s best efforts occurred amidst a raging rivalry between McLaren and Renault, in a one-off season marked by a ban on tyre changes – and the subsequent and sudden loss of form for Michael Schumacher and his Bridgestone-shod Ferrari.
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