Toro Rosso reasonably happy with home qualifying
The Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers are reasonably happy with their home race qualifying session. Sebastian Buemi will start tomorrow's Italian GP from 14th position while team mate Jaime Alguersuari put his car on the 16th slot of the Monza grid.
Sebastien Buemi: “I am reasonably happy with my performance, because I think I got almost the maximum out of the car and I am quite confident that we can have a strong race tomorrow. The important thing is that generally this weekend, we seem to be a bit more competitive than we were at Spa and in previous races, which is a positive step. It proves the updates we brought here are having an effect and that the team is doing a good job. It’s a bit disappointing to be only three hundredths behind Kobayashi, as maybe I could have been thirteenth, but overall it’s not bad.”
Jaime Alguersuari: “I am quite satisfied with the way things went this afternoon, after having some problems yesterday. Today, we also made a few changes to the car and I think we ended up pretty much where we expected to be. I am not sure what we can do in the race, as yesterday I did not manage to do a long run on high fuel to see what the tyre degradation will be like. So, it will be a new experience, but I’m looking forward to it anyway.”
Giorgio Ascanelli: “With everyone so evenly matched in terms of lap time, it was very tight in Q2 this afternoon. We looked a bit better this morning and that was also the case up until our final run in qualifying. However, when the difference is down to just a couple of tenths, there is not much more to say. Maybe we could have done better, but not by a significant amount. As for the new developments we introduced here and have run through the weekend, I hope they perform reliably during the race.”
Sebastien Buemi
(STR5-02)
FP3: Best lap 1.23.673, pos. 12th, 20 laps
Qualifying: Best lap 1.23.681, pos. 14th
Jaime Alguersuari
(STR5-03)
FP3: Best lap 1.23.909, pos. 15th, 17 laps
Qualifying: Best lap 1.23.919, pos. 16th
