Toro Rosso not content after so many problems
The Toro Rosso squad are not happy with their qualifying in this weekends British GP, with the driver pairing of Sebastien Bourdais and Sebastien Buemi qualifying 17th and 20th. After a few reliablility issues and even a red flag during qualifying, they are ready for a difficult race tomorrow.
Bourdais 17th 1:19.898; Buemi 20th 1:20.236
Sebastien Bourdais (STR4-01)
“I think we improved the car by two or three tenths compared to Turkey, but so did the others. Our car is much nicer to drive and a bit quicker. I felt comfortable inside the cockpit and I think I had the pace to make it into Q2, but the red flag came at just the wrong time for me. It’s a real shame. This is an awesome track and when you get the car set up right, a qualifying lap is an unbelievable feeling.”
Sebastien Buemi (STR4-03)
“It’s been a bad weekend so far, with a few small problems and if you don’t get many clean laps without any trouble, then when you go into qualifying, you really pay the price. It is disappointing that I couldn’t use the quick-shift on the gearbox in qualifying, which cost me at least three tenths and that is a big difference here. But that’s racing and now we will have to see what we can do tomorrow. It will be a difficult race whatever happens.”
“We had two reliability issues today, both on Buemi’s car: a hydraulic problem in the morning and then a gremlin with the quick shift, which is why we sent him out again at the end of Q1 to try and identify it. Bourdais did a reasonable job, but he lost his last flying lap because of the red flag. I think 15th was the best we could hope for today. We experimented with various elements in free practice to improve our pace and we were a little bit better today on that front.”
Sébastien Bourdais was the quicker of our drivers in practice this morning with a best time of 1:20.459. Swiss Séb recorded a best of 1:21.024.
