Hamilton has tough start in Turkey
Britons Lewis Hamilton and David Coulthard had a tough start to their Turkish grand prix weekend here in Istanbul.
With just 10 laps on the board for the entire 90 minute opening session on Friday, it is understood that Hamilton's McLaren, confined to the garage for most of the morning, suffered from a technical problem at the rear of the car.
Coulthard managed a decent 23 laps, but his session ended with marshals having to extinguish a fire from underneath his Red Bull.
In hot conditions of 33 degrees, nearly every runner had spins on the slippery track.
The Ferraris emerged with clearly the quickest pace, followed by the two McLarens.
Feuding drivers talking again - McLaren
McLaren teammates Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton patched up their damaged working relationship with a hotel meeting on Thursday, the Woking based team revealed on Friday.
In a statement, Ron Dennis' outfit confirmed media reports that the pair, who left Hungary three weeks ago not on speaking terms, stayed away from the Istanbul circuit so as to patch up their differences in the nearby city.
Alonso and Hamilton met with their bosses "independently" in the hotel, thought to be the five-star 'Conrad', before finding a "constructive way forward" with a separate face-to-face encounter, McLaren announced in a statement issued to the press.
"We are now turning our full attention to the Turkish grand prix and the rest of the season," it concluded.