McLaren marked the 40th anniversary of the death of team founder Bruce McLaren on Wednesday at their Woking headquarters. McLaren, who won four Grands Prix, died on June 2, 1970 while testing a McLaren Can-Am car at Goodwood. The entire company gathered outside the McLaren Technology Centre for a minute’s silence during the afternoon.

Lotus have announced a trio of new appointments to their technical department. Mark Smith will become the team’s technical director, working under the direction of chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne, following the end of his notice period at his current team Force India. Lewis Butler will join as Lotus’s chief designer, whilst Marianne Hinson will become head of aerodynamics.

Lewis Hamilton has won the Turkish Grand Prix from McLaren team mate Jenson Button.

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…

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…

Fresh from two successive wins in Spain and Monaco, and after notching up his third consecutive pole position at Istanbul Park on Saturday, Red Bull’s Mark Webber is looking cool, calm and collected ahead of Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix. Webber, however, is determined not to underestimate the other drivers on the grid, especially team mate Sebastian Vettel and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, who will start from P2…

Mark Webber continued his recent excellent form to snatch another pole position for Red Bull on the final runs in Q3 in Turkey on Saturday, cutting beneath Lewis Hamilton’s benchmark first-run lap of 1m 26.542s with 1m 26.295s. McLaren’s Hamilton was the only other frontrunner to improve on his second run, but though he set the fastest times in the first and second sectors a weak middle sector restricted him to 1m 26.433s, which leaves him on the outside front-row position.

As many had predicted, Red Bull moved to the fore in Saturday morning’s final practice in Turkey, with Sebastian Vettel beating Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg to the top slot after a flurry of quick times late in the hour. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was third after surviving a high-speed off at Turn Eight, followed by Mark Webber in the second Red Bull and the Renault of Robert Kubica…

Eight cars on different programmes covered by less than a second – and that on a Friday afternoon. It shows just how competitive Formula One currently is.

The teams spent opening day at Istanbul Park doing their usual evaluation of the prime and option Bridgestone tyres (the medium and soft compounds here in Turkey), and the cars’ behaviour on low and high fuel loads. Bridgestone will carefully analyse individual car/tyre performance during Friday evening, and make set-up recommendations for Saturday…