Lewis Hamilton has praised McLaren’s rate of development since the start of the season after recording his first win of the year in the Turkish Grand Prix.

Felipe Massa says Ferrari’s upgrades for its F10 have not improved the car as quickly as they expected to. Writing on his blog Massa described the Turkish Grand Prix as “the poorest performance from Scuderia Ferrari so far this season.” He added: We were uncompetitive through the whole weekend from Friday through to Sunday, struggling in every session, especially qualifying

Kamui Kobayashi praised his team’s effort in getting both cars to finish for the first time in 2010 last weekend. But he admitted reaching the top ten in qualifying gave him more satisfaction: Definitely qualifying means more to me because it shows my true performance

Force India’s design and technical director Mark Smith is set to leave the team and join Lotus . According Lotus, Smith will join them as technical director and report to chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne. The pair previously worked together at Jordan, Renault and Force India

The top three were covered by less than a second in Turkey The Turkish Grand Prix was a fantastic race – and it didn’t need a single drop of rain to liven things up. F1 Fanatic readers rated the Turkish Grand Prix higher than any other dry race weekend since our “Rate the Race” polls began at the start of 2008.

Liuzzi has struggled to match team mate Sutil in 2010 Vitantonio Liuzzi’s full-time return to Formula 1 has not gone well so far this year. He’s been off the pace of team mate Adrian Sutil in qualifying and the races.

A poor weekend for Williams who never looked like troubling the points-scorers.

The usual story at Force India : points for Adrian Sutil and another disappointing weekend for Vitantonio Liuzzi: Adrian Sutil Vitantonio Liuzzi Qualifying position 11 18 Qualifying time comparison (Q1) 1′27.951 (-1.007) 1′28.958 Race position 9 13 Average race lap 1′32.701 (-0.927) 1′33.628 Laps 58/58 57/58 Pit stops 1 1 You need to upgrade your Flash Player Open lap times interactive chart in new window Adrian Sutil Crashed heavily at turn eight in first practice, and did only a single lap in final practice after technical problems.

HRT out-qualified a rival team on merit for the first time at Istanbul this weekend – though it was partly thanks to Lucas di Grassi suffering a technical problem.

Timo Glock in action at Monaco F1 Fanatic spoke exclusively to Virgin driver Timo Glock ahead of the Turkish Grand Prix. Here’s what he had to say about his team’s closely-fought battle with Lotus, racing with Fernando Alonso in Monaco, and those pesky blue flags. F1 Fanatic: What’s your expectation for this weekend