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Oh dear Part 2

Fisi takes off
By Karl King May 11 2008
On the whole the race only strengthened a view that the Turkish GP is a weekend to forget for the Force India team. After qualifying on the last row of the grid yesterday, Fisi only leaving room to be punished by one slot of his three place grid penalty for exiting the pitlane under a red light, the race only got worse for the Italian.

Fisi's race lasted about five seconds after he flew over Kazuki Nakajima's Williams in the very first corner.

On seeing the incident, ITV Sport commentator Martin Brundle said the accident was 100% Fisichella's fault.

In an interview live on air, Giancarlo disagreed claiming it wasn't his fault as he unexpectedly had to avoid a Toro Rosso who blocked him off.

Ex-F1 driver Martin Brundle, however, reckoned Fisi was travelling up to 20-30mph too fast and should have scrubbed off speed much earlier. This is the third time in a row that Fisichella has crashed out of the Turkish GP in as many years.

In the team's press release, the Roman said, "I made a good start but then under braking Bourdais changed direction twice and I couldn't brake in time and went into the back of the Williams."

It was a slightly better afternoon for Sutil who, after returning to the pits at the end of the first lap for a new nose after too close for comfort with a Toro Rosso, managed not to finish the race last. That dishonour went instead to STR's Sebastian Vettel who records his first finish of the season.

Sutil also managed to give the team some TV-time today by keeping McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen behind for a while after the Finn pitted with a puncture.

Sutil described his race, "At the start I saw Giancarlo going straight over Nakajima and there was debris all over the track, so by turns three and four there were cars all over the place.

"I had some damage on the front wing when another driver touched me through turn five so had to come in to change the nosecone. Luckily the safety car was out and I didn't lose too much time.

"During the race my balance was not perfect and I had a lot of understeer I couldn't get rid of, but the middle stint was good as I was catching the group in front.

"At the end of the race I could keep Vettel behind me so was at least it was one position gained."

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11 May, 2008 15:32 Report
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Bad luck to Nakajima. Shame on Fisichella. I'd expect that kind of crash from a rookie.

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Here It looks like Fisi took the slogan fly the goodtimes with kingfisher a lil too seriously...hehe

Or maybe cuz he knew that we needed a faster car to win points so he hitched a ride...HEHE

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divine retribution????
last year in gp2 turkey race, karun chandok got "kazuki'd" in his durango when he was leading the race.
bad karma for kazuki maybe?

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