Vettel makes debut for Toro Rosso

Today, Sebastian Vettel came in action during a Grand Prix weekend for the second time this season, but it was the first time that he was in the STR2. Vettel enjoyed his first day with the Scuderia Toro Rosso and had a trouble-free day.

Tonio Liuzzi "This was not an easy day as the track was evolving through both sessions. The track surface had a lot of marbles on it and it was difficult to complete a good clean lap, as can be seen by the fact many people made some mistakes. This made it difficult to put in consistent laps for a long run. We have to work on our set-up and so I don't think our lap times are representative of where we should be, but we did not put everything together. Overall, the car is not bad but we have to improve over a long run as we seem to have trouble with graining as this circuit is hard on tyres."
First Practice Session
Best lap 1.24.976, pos. 18th, 20 laps
Second Practice Session
Best lap 1.23.136, pos. 19th, 42 laps

Sebastian Vettel "I have enjoyed my first day and everyone has made me feel very welcome and already I have the impression that I am a full team member. The most important thing today was to get some experience in the car and in that respect I feel we did a good job, picking up a lot of useful data for tomorrow and for the race. I feel good and it was a pleasure to drive the car. Of course, everything about this car is different to what I have driven before, as every car has different controls on the steering wheel and different modes, so I worked on getting used to this."
First Practice Session
Best lap 1.24.905, pos. 16th, 26 laps
Second Practice Session
Best lap 1.23.148, pos. 20th, 39 laps

T-Car: STR2-01 (Liuzzi)