Turkish Grand Prix: Drivers', Constructors' Championship Fallout

Daniel Chalmers by Columnist Written on May 11, 2008
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Kubica will also fall back as the season goes on. 

Let’s take a lot of how things are taking shape in the Constructor’s championship now. 

Ferrari 63 BMW Sauber 44 Mclaren/Mercedes 42 points 

In the battle for the constructor’s crown, Ferrari takes a further lead over their main opponents, Mclaren and BMW. 

Ferrari have been able to score big points in the last two races whereas only one Mclaren has scored in the last three races, which has cost them to Ferrari quite badly in terms of this championship.

However, the gap is still manageable if Mclaren can get big results for both their cars in Monaco and Montreal. 

However, DNFs in these two races could help Ferrari build too big gap, therefore could force Mclaren to focus more on the Driver’s championship.

BMW Sauber looked to be very close to the front-runners in the fast four races, but today they took quite a sizeable step backwards which is a bit of a concern.  Their sheer consistency had put them top of the table after round three in Bahrain.

My feeling is although BMW will have a few more great weekends this season on tracks that suit them well the general picture, we saw today will remain in most of the rest of the races this season. 

Mclaren and Ferrari battling for wins closely with BMW on their own behind them.

 

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