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THE TURKISH GP IN 3 KEY MOMENTS

1 Lewis seals the deal with a battling drive to victory

It was almost inevitable Lewis Hamilton would seal his seventh world championship at the Turkish Grand Prix, but for a long time it looked unlikely he would do so in such emphatic fashion.

F1’s best team looked lost in Istanbul, struggling on the cold, gripless asphalt. Istanbul Park was resurfaced ahead of F1’s return, but no one told Pirelli, so the tyre supplier brought its hardest compounds expecting to need maximum protection against massive cornering forces through Turn 8.

The result was that no one could

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