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The collision between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel was the talking point of Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, but the real story was the fact that Red Bull's opposition - notably McLaren - has closed the gap on the once dominant team. Lewis Hamilton split the RB6s in qualifying and he and team mate Jenson Button applied a telling level of pressure in the race, culminating in a well-deserved one-two.

After Saturday's qualifying session in Istanbul, Lewis Hamilton found himself in the promising situation of having split the Red Bulls on the grid, and contemplating whether Turkey could be a good place to start winning in 2010. He and McLaren team mate Jenson Button may well have benefited from the Red Bull tussle in the race, but that was far from the whole story…

1st Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), 1h28m47.620s; 2nd Jenson Button (McLaren), 1h28m50.265s; 3rd Mark Webber (Red Bull), 1h29m11.905s. Q: Lewis, first win of the season for you. Great scrap. First with Mark, then Sebastian (Vettel) and then Jenson and finally you emerge as the winner. What a race. Lewis Hamilton: It was quite an exciting race. We knew that we had good race pace. We knew that we would be able to stay with the Red Bulls...

As Red Bull's motorsport consultant, Dr Helmut Marko is the perfect person to ask about the incident between the team's drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber during the Turkish Grand Prix. Watching the duo wheel-to-wheel and then lose an almost guaranteed one-two by ending up colliding was not the ideal end to the Istanbul Park weekend. And Marko and the rest of the team are keen to have a serioys word with both drivers to ensure it never happens again…

Lewis Hamilton has won the Turkish Grand Prix from McLaren team mate Jenson Button. Polesitter Mark Webber finished third after losing the lead in a clash with Red Bull partner Sebastian Vettel, who retired in the incident. Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg were fourth and fifth for Mercedes GP, followed by Renault's Robert Kubica and the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso...

Red Bull's Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel on their fateful collision; Lotus on their double DNF; and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton on taking his first victory of 2010. All 24 drivers and their teams review Sunday's action…

After the glitz and glamour of Monaco, in Turkey the paddock focus returned to the on-track action and some thrilling support races to this weekend's Formula One competition...

Red Bull's Mark Webber once again took the top grid slot during qualifying for Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix. But with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton in second, Sebastian Vettel found himself down in third in the other RB6. Reigning world champion Jenson Button in the second McLaren and Mercedes GP's Michael Schumacher make up the top five. We take a team-by-team look at how all the runners performed…

After clinching second on the Istanbul Park grid and separating Red Bull team mates Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel in the times, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was all smiles in Turkey on Saturday. With a long race ahead of him on Sunday, Hamilton didn't want to predict where he might finish, but he's not ruling out the possibility of victory just yet…

Drivers: 1. Mark Webber (Red Bull), 1m 26.295s; 2. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), 1m 26.433s, 3. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 1m 26.760s. Q: Mark, I am not sure what the Australian word for deja vu is but here we go again. Third pole in a row and I suppose reward for all the reliability problems you have had this weekend. Mark Webber: Yeah, it hasn't been the smoothest of weekends for us in terms of getting the running in. Obviously Friday was a little bit disrupted but not massively to be honest. If you could ever have a problem with the engine it is probably the right time to have it. This morning also we were not having the easiest P3 to be