Scuderia Toro Rosso
didn't translate any potential weekend pace into this
afternoon's final qualifying sessions in Istanbul ahead
of tomorrow's Turkish Grand Prix with Sebastien Buemi
ended up edging out team mate Jaime Alguersuari by three
tenths of a second as the pair brought up the tail of
the Q2 session to claim 16th and 17th positions on the
grid.That left the two Red Bull-owned, Ferrari V8
powered SRT6 single seaters as the slowest of the
established runners, with the three 'new' F1 teams -
Lotus, Virgin and HRT - having been customarily knocked
out in the Q1 session.
Sebastien Buemi
“It’s a bit hard to understand
why we are so far off. I would say that this morning,
the track was quicker for us and I am not sure why I
could not do the same lap time this afternoon as I
managed in the morning. Maybe it’s down to the drastic
increase in temperature that we seem to have lost some
grip. Overall, I am therefore disappointed with this
qualifying session as I feel we could have done better
and maybe been higher up on the grid, as one tenth of a
second would have made a big difference. Let’s see what
happens tomorrow, when apparently there is a chance it
might rain and that could change everything.”
(STR6-02)
FP3: 1.27.080, pos. 10th, 16 laps;
Qualifying: 1.27.255, pos. 16th
Jaime Alguersuari
“All things considered, this is
not such a bad result as at least we have saved a set of
new tyres for the race which is a positive point. Maybe
we could have improved the balance of the car on another
set, as it changed a lot from this morning to the
afternoon, which was down to the change in temperature
and track condition. I did not do so much running in the
morning which obviously did not help. But I must be
positive and am looking forward to having a good race
tomorrow as we have enough tyres to do well, so let’s
see what happens.”
(STR6-03)
FP3: 1.27.724, pos. 17th, 15 laps;
Qualifying: 1.27.572, Pos. 17th
Giorgio Ascanelli
“I am not surprised at this
result: the gaps have got smaller between the teams in
our part of the pack. However, I do not understand yet
why we did not improve our times from this morning,
although one can assume that the increased temperature
has changed the balance of the cars. Jaime has had a
difficult time so far here and we had to change his
set-up dramatically from yesterday to today, when he
improved a little but not enough and he lost time with
his spin. Sebastien looked a bit better this morning,
but there was already a hint that Williams had made some
more progress. We came here with a few new parts, but it
has not been enough. In Q2, we did not want to put all
our eggs in one basket, so while Seb tried a second run
to see if he could improve his performance, with Jaime
we opted to save a fresh set of tyres for tomorrow’s
race. As things turned out, it seems Jaime has come off
best in that particular decision.”
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