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Spanish GP: Toro Rosso qualifying report
QUALIFYING & DANCING The master learns from the pupil: when it comes to car set-up, Seb hangs on Giorgio's every word, but with five days to go to Red Bull's Monaco Media Party, our technical director was keen to pick up the latest disco dance ...
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QUALIFYING & DANCING
The master learns from the pupil: when it comes to car set-up, Seb hangs on Giorgio's every word, but with five days to go to Red Bull's Monaco Media Party, our technical director was keen to pick up the latest disco dance moves from the younger generation.
Sebastien Buemi: "I expected to get a better grid position than this, as we could have got more out of the car, but I had a lot of traffic, including one incident with Rosberg on my very last lap. It was very close with myself and the three cars that qualified ahead of me all in about one tenth of a second. So, in general, I am not very satisfied with my performance. However, now we must just focus on tomorrow, when we can expect a long tough race. My first aim is to finish the race without any crashes, as has happened to me so often this season and then my next goal is to bring home some points."
Jaime Alguersuari: "We have to be happy with this position, as we knew some of the other teams would have upgrades for this race and we had to be realistic in terms of what we could achieve. This is a long season and we know we too will get upgrades at some point. I did my best and at the end of Q2 I tried for just a single lap run and got a good time, maybe good enough to get me into the points tomorrow as our race simulation in free practice on Friday went well. So I am confident for tomorrow and hope the weather stays dry."
Giorgio Ascanelli: "We can be quite happy with this result. It was to be expected that we would struggle a bit here, as we have not brought a major update, because we currently do not have the capacity to do so. However, in some ways, we did better than expected, even if it's a shame that Sebastien was unable to produce a clean lap in Q2 as both of them were affected by traffic: while with Rosberg it was simply unfortunate, with Petrov it seemed to me to be deliberate on the part of his team. Having said that, traffic is the same problem for everybody. As for Jaime, he did a good job."
-source: toro rosso
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