* Engine Change - drops 10 places on the grid

Felipe Massa in the last seconds of Q3 snatched pole position from Lewis Hamilton, the Brazilian having set the pace in the first phase of Q3 flying laps until the Championship leader managed to get his act together and have a 0.6s advantage over Felipe, Lewis having asked his pits where he was going wrong.  Kimi Raikkonen, the favourite, was a further two tenths back from his pole man team mate after making a mistake towards the end of his final lap, crossing up at the penultimate corner and Fernando Alonso having been the fastest in both Q2 and Q1 could only manage fourth fastest, possibly have elected to run on the hard compound, whilst the three in front ran the soft.  The BMW drivers took the third row, with Kubica in front of Heidfeld today by 0.3s.  Heikki Kovalainen put his Renault in front of his team mate Giancarlo Fisichella with fellow Italian Jarno Trulli the filling between the two French cars, the promising showing of Ralf Schumacher not materialising this afternoon the German finishing 18th.  Anthony Davidson drove very well and nearly made it to the top ten, but was demoted first by Jarno Trulli and then Giancarlo Fisichella in Q2 having been 0.6s faster than Takumo Sato in Q1

Felipe Massa was rightly voted "driver of the day" after leading from start to finish and making it his second Turkish Grand Prix win in a row.  Kimi Raikkonen kept in second place throughout, closing on the Brazilian, but never looking a threat, although he did put in the fastest lap towards the end to "make a point".  Lewis Hamilton held third place, but never seemed in a position to overtake either of the Ferrari's who had started on the soft compound, only changing this after the second pit stop.  This with the higher down force possibly gave them the advantage over the McLaren´s.  Fernando Alonso, like Hamilton, on hard tyres and on the dirty side, lost two places at the start to the two BMW's and for 17 laps had to look at the rear wing of Nick Heidfeld, a frequent view for him this year. Kubica came into the pits on lap 13 and he managed to leapfrog the other BMW of Heidfeld at the first pit stop holding fourth place until with just 15 laps to go Hamilton´s right front went elevating Alonso to third and a podium finish, narrowing the gap down to just  points with just 5 races remaining.  Michael Schumacher was 21 points down (I think) before last years Turkish Grand Prix so the Championship is not over with Ferrari instructing their drivers to have one/two finishes for the remaining races.  Lewis Hamilton held on to sixth place with a badly handling car (only they blown tyre being changed) just holding of the ever improving Kovalainen who had even briefly led the race in the first stint just prior to his first stop. The only incident was Giancarlo Fisichella touching Jarno Trulli and causing his fellow Italian to spin his Toyota from which he was not to recover at the first corner on the first lap. Mark Webber was the only retirement.