Valtteri Bottas to start from pole position in Turkish Grand Prix

With over 58 laps, the Turkish Grand Prix was held on Saturday at Intercity Istanbul Park on a 5.3-kilometer (3.3 miles) track.

Lewis Hamilton, who delivered the fastest lap ever seen at Istanbul Park, finished first in qualifying with a time of 1:22.868 but will start in P11 due to an engine penalty in Istanbul.

Bottas trailed 0.13 seconds behind Hamilton, whereas Max Verstappen came third, 0.328 seconds behind the British driver.

"Yeah, it was a good quali. Not easy conditions, especially Q1 it was bit on the edge with the damp parts," Bottas said in an interview after the qualifying session.

"Lewis with his penalty, that's the minimum penalty he can have, I'm on pole, so that should be good," he added.

Raikkonen, Vettel eliminated in qualifying sessions

A total of 10 drivers were eliminated from qualifying sessions one and two in the Turkish GP.

Daniel Ricciardo, Nicholas Latifi, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Raikkonen, and Nikita Mazepin were out in the Stage 1 qualifying, while Sebastian Vettel, Esteban Ocon, George Russell, Mick Schumacher, and Carlos Sainz were eliminated during the second qualifying session.

The 16th race of this season will take place 3.00 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) at the Intercity Istanbul Park circuit on Sunday.

Qualifying results:

	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1.24.585	1.23.082	1.22.868
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1.25.047	1.23.579	1.22.998
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1.24.592	1.23.732	1.23.196
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1.24.869	1.24.015	1.23.265
5	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1.24.704	1.23.817	1.23.326
6	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	1.25.174	1.23.914	1.23.477
7	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1.24.963	1.23.961	1.23.706
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	1.25.138	1.24.642	1.23.954
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1.25.511	1.24.601	1.24.305
10	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	1.25.409	1.24.054	1.24.368
	-	-	-	-	-
11	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1.25.787	1.24.795
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1.25.422	1.24.842
13	George Russell	Williams	1.25.417	1.25.007
14	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1.25.555	1.25.200
15	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1.25.177
	-	-	-	-	-
16	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1.25.881
17	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1.26.086
18	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	1.26.430
19	Kimi Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo	1.27.525
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1.28.449