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The Toro Rosso drivers' Sebastien Buemi and
Jaime Alguersuari will start tomorrow's
Turkish Grand Prix from fourteenth and
sixteenth place on the grid respectively as
the Italian team struggled to keep up
momentum in today's qualifying sessions. |
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The Toro Rosso drivers' Sebastien Buemi and Jaime
Alguersuari will start tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix
from fourteenth and sixteenth place on the grid
respectively as the Italian team struggled to keep up
momentum in today's qualifying sessions. The Ferrari
V8-powered STR5 cars were overshadowed today by the
similar engined BMW Saubers which have made development
progress since the last race and both the Swiss team's
drivers overhauled the Faenza-located outfit's cars,
while Buemi and Alguersuari were split in the Q2 session
by the Williams-Cosworth of Rubens Barrichello. Behind
the Spanish Toro Rosso driver in Q2 was the other
Williams-Cosworth of Nico Hulkenberg while the Force
India-Mercedes of Vitantonio Liuzzi was next up, but the
Italian didn't make it out of Q1, before the three new
Formula 1 teams, Virgin, Lotus and HRT brought up the
tail of the field.
Sebastien Buemi: “I am not particularly happy,
because again today, Q3 was out of our reach. I expected
a bit more than fourteenth place, as in the morning we
were ahead of the Saubers, so I was hoping to qualify
eleventh, but they got ahead of us this afternoon. The
track changed a lot from yesterday afternoon to this
morning, but not so much in between today’s two
sessions. It will be a tough race so let’s wait and see
what we can do. In free practice, our pace over a long
run was good, which is a positive sign, however,
overtaking is not so easy here.”
(STR5-02)
FP3: Best lap 1.28.610, Pos. 11th,
22 laps; Qualifying: Best lap 1.28.273, pos. 14th
Jaime Alguersuari:
“I think there was more potential
to do better, especially on my last lap, but I was held
up by De La Rosa at Turn 7 who was on the outside of the
corner which meant I had to change my line, which cost
me a couple of tenths. However, it was a valuable
experience as I am still not a hundred percent tuned
into the tyres and I need to learn more. I had to park
the car at the side of the track at the end of Q2
because I decided to do one more lap than planned on my
final run, when I thought I could improve my time.”
(STR5-03)
FP3: Best lap 1.28.734, pos. 13th,
21 laps Qualifying: Best lap 1.28.540, pos. 16th
Giorgio Ascanelli:
“We can be reasonably satisfied,
because we have worked hard over the past couple of
weeks and our car has progressed. However, it was clear
this afternoon that Sauber has also worked hard and
progressed more than us. The cars ran reliably and
generally, we have done a good job, but we did not get
the most out of our package this afternoon, because we
treated yesterday’s free practice more like a test
session, to evaluate some new parts, rather than
optimising the car to suit the characteristics of this
track. Therefore we did not get everything right today
and the verdict of the qualifying time sheet is the
correct one in our case."
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