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The two Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers,
Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, will start
side-by-side on the seventh row of the grid when tomorrow's
Malaysian Grand Prix gets underway after a solid qualifying
performance in the Ferrari-powered STR5 single-seaters
during a rain-soaked qualifying session at Sepang this
afternoon.
Jaime Alguersuari
“When you look at
what happened to some of the quicker guys, I would say this
qualifying result is reasonably okay for me. However, maybe
if I had come in earlier in Q2 to switch from full wets to
intermediates, then maybe I could have had a chance of
seeing Q3. If the conditions are similar to this tomorrow
and I believe that is the forecast, then you never know what
could happen, although personally I would prefer a dry
race.”
(STR5-03)
Qualifying: Best lap 1.49.464, pos. 14th, 16 laps; FP3: Best
lap 1.35.026, pos. 15th, 16 laps
Sebastien Buemi
“I’m angry because
I did not make the most of Q2. But there’s nothing I can do
about it and so we will have to tackle the race from where
we are. I started Q2 on full wets because we felt the
conditions demanded it, but I stayed on track too long and
then, after I came in and switched to the Intermediates, it
was too late because the rain had started to get stronger
again.”
(STR5-01) Qualifying: Best lap 1.49.207,
pos. 13th , 15 laps; FP3: Best lap 1.34.673, pos. 12th, 19
laps
Giorgio
Ascanelli
"Malaysian rain is like English tea:
it comes around five and it’s the same temperature.
Seriously though, we got our tactics right in going out
immediately in Q1. But in Q2, if we had more confidence in
the forecast, we should have gone out earlier on
Intermediates, but we thought it was too risky. We called
Sebastien in at the right minute, but he did not come in and
we missed the best slot. Jaime was very lucky not to run out
of fuel in Q1 as he stayed out for one lap too long and in
Q2, I would say he is pretty much where we would have
expected. Therefore, something of a missed opportunity
today.”
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