There was no reward on offer for Scuderia Toro Rosso in
Turkey on Sunday afternoon as, after starting well down
the grid, neither Jaime Alguersuari or Sebastien Buemi
ever looked like troubling the point scoring positions,
the duo eventually coming home in twelfth and sixteen
places respectively.The
Swiss driver was caught up in another first lap tangle
on the Ferrari-powered STR5, this time with the
Williams-Cosworth of Nico Hulkenberg, and with a
repaired but still damaged car he eventually finished a
lap down on the winning McLaren of Lewis Hamilton. His
Spanish team mate was the final unlapped runner at the
end of the 58 lap race, 67.8 seconds behind Hamilton.
Jaime Alguersuari (STR5-03)
Pos. 12th
“I believe we can be satisfied
with our result, as I don’t think I could have done
better from where I started. The decision to make two
stops for tyres was the correct one, so that I could
attack De La Rosa and Kobayashi at the end.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t quite do it in the number of
laps remaining, but this has been an encouraging weekend
and I really hope we can again push in Canada, getting
back to scoring points again.”
Sebastien Buemi (STR5-02) Pos.
16th
“The start was good, but then
De La Rosa made a poor exit to Turn 2 so going into Turn
3 I tried to go round him on the outside. But I went a
bit wide and when I came back onto the track, Hulkenberg
got past me and as I tried to retake him at Turn 7 on
the outside, I think he might have lost the front end of
the car and he clipped my right rear, which punctured
the tyre and I had to pit immediately. After that, my
race pace was not too bad, considering there was quite a
bit of damage to the rear of the car, which meant I had
a lot less downforce. I had a good fight, but I am a bit
disappointed, so now I am just looking forward to the
next race.”
Franz Tost (Team Principal)
“As we have seen in past
races, our performance on Sunday is much better than in
qualifying and today yet again, both our drivers had
good race pace. So we now need to concentrate on
transferring that good level to qualifying, as your race
is won or lost dependent on your grid position. It’s
difficult to score points when you start from far back.
The team did a good job in terms of our tactics: unlike
the majority, we started on the Prime tyre, as we
expected the Option to struggle in the early laps. In
the second stint, the Option did indeed bring a better
pace. In the later stages, we saw that although
Alguersuari was close to De La Rosa, he could not pass
him and, as Liuzzi was around 19 seconds behind, we
called him for another tyre change and if the race had
been one or two laps longer, Jaime could have got the
Saubers and scored a point. Unfortunately, Buemi had a
collision with Hulkenberg on the opening lap. The
Williams front wing clipped Seb’s right rear wheel and
after pitting for new tyres, he went out again with a
damaged floor and parts missing from the right rear
brake duct. Nevertheless, he did quite good lap times
for the rest of the race.”
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