AT&T Williams Turkish Grand Prix – Race

Nico Rosberg:
I am happy with my result. I had a fantastic first lap, although I very nearly lost it all when Heidfeld went wide while I was alongside him. He didn’t know I was there, so I had to go off the track. When I came back on, I was all over the place but I then passed Coulthard and Trulli on the outside of turn three. I gave it my all on every lap and it was a fantastic race for me today. Anymore, though, is just not possible at the moment, but I am looking forward to the next two races which traditionally suit our car.

Kazuki Nakajima:
I don’t know exactly what happened; I just went into the first corner following the guy in front. I didn’t change my line and I was suddenly hit from behind. I wanted to make it back to the garage as I thought there was a chance to get the problem fixed and get back out, but my car had suffered too much damage so I had to retire. It’s a real shame because we showed we had good long run pace on Friday and were expecting to have the same pace in the race, so we could have done well here this afternoon.

Sam Michael, Technical Director:
It’s good to get a point for the Constructors’ Championship. It was a clear-headed drive from Nico; he was flat out all afternoon, didn’t make any mistakes and delivered. Unfortunately, the traffic just prior to both pitstops cost him some time. The whole midfield is very tight now as today demonstrated, so we need to bring some more performance to the car if we are going to stay in the battle for fourth place. Kazuki was hit from behind which left his car too badly damaged to continue so his race was over, which was a shame. Apart from that, we had no reliability issues.

POS DRIVER TEAM Time / Gap (Fastest Lap) Grid
1 F Massa Ferrari 1:26:49.451 (1:26.666, 3rd) 1
2 L Hamilton McLaren Mercedes +3.779 (1:26.529, 2nd) 3
3 K Raikkonen Ferrari +4.271 (1:26.506, 1st) 4

8 N ROSBERG
FW30-03 H291
AT&T WILLIAMS +71.406 (1:27.795, 9th) 11

DNF
K NAKAJIMA
FW30-04 H292
AT&T WILLIAMS n/a 16

CHAMPIONSHIPS: ROSBERG 8PTS, (10th),
NAKAJIMA 5PTS (11th),
AT&T WILLIAMS 13PTS (4th)

Online this week at www.attwiliams.com:
The Turkish Grand Prix Podcast, Nico Rosberg’s Turkish GP Column, Kazuki’s GP Blogs, iWitness, Rosberg and Nakajima Head to Head and the first of a series of Behind the Scenes features on WF1TV, “The Williams F1 Collection.”

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