Lewis Hamilton hasn’t given up his hopes of a good race tomorrow despite being disappointed to be bumped down to fourth by Nico Rosberg.
Traditionally Istanbul is a track where cars in the less favourable even numbered grid slots suffer more than elsewhere.
“Obviously we’re starting on the dirty of the grid,” said Hamilton. “It’s going to be very, very hard to get ahead of the Mercedes, they’re very quick on the straight. The Red Bulls will disappear, because it’s too easy for them. But you never know what the weather’s going to do. We’ll put up a good fight like we did last year and in the last race. Fingers crossed, we can gain some places.”
In China Hamilton saved a set of new option tyres for Sunday, but he was unable to do it this time, although both Red Bull drivers have.
“I wanted to do the same thing, and we ended up going out and doing two runs, which is not necessarily the right thing to do. Last race with the extra set of tyre we didn’t benefit much from them, so it’s difficult to know how much the benefit will be.”
Adam Cooper F1 
First Red Bull were getting poles and podiums with a KERS that wasn’t working right, and now they’re hitting the box and getting out of the car with a minute left in Q3! Quite a bit of psychological warefare going on along with the tyre strategy I’d say.