Brits on Pole

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David Coulthard has hailed a breakthrough in Istanbul after he got to the chequered flag for the first time this season with no failures, collisions or crashes. Writing in his column on the ITV F1 website, he says: “I feel like I got a monkey off my back in Turkey.”

Mike Conway’s latest column for the ITV Sport website is about the Istanbul weekend including his satisfaction in getting some points on the board, a first-hand insight into dodging stray dogs while driving racing cars and a forward look to Monaco as well as plenty of detail about the races themselves.

If you’re wanting to get up to speed with the personalities and politics of the GP2 series, and possibly find out who the next young super-recruits to F1 might be, you could do a lot worse than follow the series blog.

Sunday’s GP2 race in Turkey brought scenes that few fans will have enjoyed watching - the sight of stray dogs venturing onto the Istanbul track and, in one case, being run down by Bruno Senna’s car.

On the surface it looks like more of the same - Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on pole for the third year running and seemingly on his way to another big stack of points for Ferrari. But look a little deeper and this has the potential to be a really interesting race.