![]() Mercedes led Red Bull Racing by thirty-three points in the Constructors' Championship standings. Going into the event, Hamilton held a two-point lead over Max Verstappen in the Drivers' Championship standings, with third-placed Valtteri Bottas twelve points ahead of fourth-placed Lando Norris and thirty-one ahead of fifth-placed Sergio Pérez. Isola stated that this was because Pirelli had only learned that the track was to be water-blasted after they had made their tyre choices. Following the first two practice sessions, Pirelli's Formula One boss Mario Isola stated that their tyre selection was "too aggressive". Sole Formula One tyre-supplier Pirelli supplied their middle range of compounds in terms of hardness (the C2, C3, and C4). The Honda tribute livery ran by the Red Bull team, nicknamed "The White Bull". The AlphaTauri cars featured arigato, a Japanese word for "Thank you". The Red Bull cars ran with a predominantly white livery, inspired by the livery with which Honda won their first Formula One World Championship race, the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix. Red Bull and AlphaTauri both ran tribute liveries to Honda, their engine supplier, on what was due to be Honda's home race, the Japanese Grand Prix. The name and sponsor logos were not used in any races from the French Grand Prix to the Italian Grand Prix for legal reasons, but were used at the Bahrain, Emilia Romagna, Portuguese, Spanish, Monaco, Azerbaijan, and Russian Grands Prix. The title sponsor of the Ferrari Team, Mission Winnow, was banned for this race. ![]() Ten constructors entered two drivers each for the race, with no changes from the regular season entry list. Three previous Turkish Grand Prix winners entered this event in the form of Lewis Hamilton (who won the event twice previously in 20), Sebastian Vettel (who won the 2011 event), and Kimi Räikkönen (who won the inaugural Turkish Grand Prix in 2005). Charles Leclerc said he hoped the track surface would still be slippery to boost Ferrari's hopes of a good result at this race. The track surface was water-blasted after the smooth tarmac provided little grip at the previous year's event. While the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix had been held behind closed doors, the 2021 edition was to have spectators in attendance. This was the second consecutive year in which the Turkish Grand Prix had appeared on the calendar as a replacement round. ![]() On 28 August, it was pushed back one week to 8–10 October due to the reduction of the number of Grands Prix into the calendar. On 25 June, the event was readded to the schedule following the cancellation of the Singapore Grand Prix, which was scheduled for 1–3 October. It had previously been scheduled for 11–13 June (replacing the cancelled Canadian Grand Prix), but was postponed due to unfavourable quarantine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey and the travel restrictions from Turkey imposed by the British government. It was the ninth running of the Turkish Grand Prix, all of which have taken place at the same venue. The event took place from 8–10 October at Istanbul Park in Tuzla, Istanbul, with the race covering fifty-eight laps of the fourteen-turn circuit.
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