In The Mirrors: Turkish GP

First of all, I apologise for the very long delay in writing this, it has only been 11 days since the Turkish Grand Prix. Therefore you may have to cast your mind back a bit for this one (Jenson won, remember...)

After the disastrous Monaco races for both Toyota and BMW, the two teams made a decent improvement back towards the front of the grid, reinforcing the point that the rear of the grid seems to be more interesting than the front at the moment. Toro Rosso and Mclaren appear to slip to the back for this one, with Force India still hovering around the last positions.

Qualifying left Nelson Piquet and Lewis Hamilton feeling pretty depressed. I firmly believe that Piquet is very close to losing his Renault drive in the very near future. I predicted that he would be gone by Germany, so you never know, I might be right on this one.

Mclaren appear to be slipping further back, with neither driver having scored any points since Bahrain. Kovalainen managed to out-qualify Hamilton, but could manage no better than 14th place. Unfortunately for Mclaren, I can't see an improvement happening anytime soon.

Moving on to the race, and Rubens Barrichello terrible start means that I can finally write about a Brawn in one of these articles! The main action over the first handful of laps all seemed to involved the Brazilian, with some overtaking and some light crashing into the others.

Despite his point at Monaco, Sebastien Bourdais was consistent throughout the Istanbul race by remaining last for the majority, and shows that Toro Rosso appear to have fallen back, and life without Sebastian Vettel seems to be hurting the Italian team. Buemi couldn't manage much more, only a few places up the road.

Just a quick mention for Robert Kubica, who has finally managed to score his first points of 2009. I thought he would have a shot at the title this year, but all of my championship predictions have gone tits up, so never mind.

Despite his entertaining race, Barrichello achieved Brawn's first racing retirement with a gearbox problem. This means that his team-mate goes 10 points further clear, and the championship is starting to look a bit "Schumacherish".

Good job I'm writing about the back of the grid really, there isn't much different going on at the front right now...