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HRT drivers hoping experience will tell in Turkey

Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok hope to build on their Monaco showing © Getty Images

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• Race:
• Turkish Grand Prix

• Drivers:
• Karun Chandhok
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• Bruno Senna

• Teams:
• HRT

HRT drivers Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok are hoping that their previous experiences of driving on the Istanbul Park circuit will give them an added advantage during the Turkish Grand Prix weekend.

"I drove on two occasions in Turkey," said Senna. "This experience gave me a fairly reasonable idea of the difficulties. It will be a tough weekend with an interesting combination of bumps and high-speed corners that will make it challenging for our car. But this level of difficulty makes it interesting and will go for it as we need to make another good two-car finish to improve our teams championship classification."

Chandhok, who enjoyed his strongest showing of the season in Monaco before being shunted off by Jarno Trulli, can draw on confidence gained from leading a GP2 round at Istanbul Park.

"I am looking forward to racing in Istanbul after our strong showing in Monaco," said Chandhok. "It is a shame it had to end the way it did but the team can be very proud as we did a good job there. Turkey will be a completely different challenge to Monaco. I have gone well in Istanbul over the last couple of years in GP2 and was also leading the race in 2007 before I was forced to retire.

"There is a good balance of corners here, specially turn 8, which is quite a challenge and very long, fast with the triple apex. Taking care of the tyres on the high-speed corners will be crucial to the outcome of the race. The team is definitely encouraged after Monaco and we will continue to do our best to get the best possible result."

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