Scuderia Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi and Jaime
Alguersuari will start tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix at
Monza in line astern with the former on row seven and
the latter right behind him on row eight after a solid
qualifying performance this afternoon. With new updates
on the Ferrari V8-powered car for this weekend's action
the Faenza, Italy-based outfit is upbeat and the Swiss
driver set the fourteenth fastest time in Q2 earlier
today while his Spanish team mate was two places adrift
in sixteenth place.
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 (Technical
Director)
“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)
