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For th🅷e first time since 2011, Istanbul Park&nbs♔p;plays host to the Turkish Grand Prix.

Having made it😼s debut in 2005, the Turkish Grand Prix remained a fan favourite due to its great overtaking opportunities and infamous high-speed triple left-hander - Turn 8.

With four rac🔥es remaining in 2020, Lewis Hamilton is within touching distance of winning his seventh drivers' title.

Hamilton sits 85 points clear of Bottas in the drivers▨’ championship following his win last time out at Imola, where Mercedes secured a record-breaking seventh consecutive constructors' championship in a row.

With only 104 points left on the table, Bottas must outscore Hamilton by at least eight points🐽 to ensure it goes to the next round in Bahrain.

Bottas has only outscored Hamilton by eight points or more on just two o🌜🍎ccasions this season - the season-opener in Austria and the Russian Grand Prix.

What to expect from this weekend?

Only Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen a🎃nd Sergio Perez have previ🤪ously raced in Turkey in F1.

Like at Portimao, Istanbul Park has had a new ⛄tarmac laid ahead of its return to the F1 calendar meaning expect practice to be very tricky in teꩲrms of grip levels.

Pirelli has nomina🀅ted the C1, C2 and C3 tyres for this weekend - the three har♔dest tyre compounds available in its range for 2020.

Mario Isola, Pirelli's head of F1 said: “Turkey is yet another new venue on this fascinating 2020 Formula 1 calendar, and although it’s a place that we’ve been to before, to all intents and purposes we can consider it as a brand new circuit for us: especially as we don’t have experience of the new asphalt. For tyres, we expect Turkey to be a challenge in terms of energy loads, which is why we💮 have shifted the allocations t🍒owards the harder compounds – just as we did in Portimao, even though the new asphalt might be less severe than we were expecting. 

“As has o꧒ften been the case this year, the information gathered in free practice will be absolutely crucial, in terms of assessing not only degradation but especially wear on such a demanding layout. Of course, no mention of Istanbul Park would be complete without talking about Turn 8: which this year will probably be taken flat-out by the latest generation of high-downforce Formula 1 cars, increasing the loads on the tyres accordingly. It’s not going to be♔ an easy race for them, so finding the right level of tyre management will be critical.”