Not good today - better tomorrow?

By Andrew Cutler
June 17 2007

After getting both cars into Q2 during qualifying for last week's Canadian GP, it was quite a let-down today seeing the Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers mired near the bottom of the time charts, unable to get to the Q2 cut-off at Indianapolis. Nonetheless, they have not given up all hope of a good day on Sunday.

Today saw a continuation of the same issues that plagued Scott and Tonio yesterday, and while a third practice session in the morning did help them to figure some things out, it didn't give them enough time to put matters right before it really counted. The boys will both start on the next to last row for Sunday's race, with Tonio in 19th and Scott in 20th.

Here are their post-qualifying comments:

Vitantonio Liuzzi:

"As we saw yesterday, it was quite difficult to find a good balance. I am disappointed not to have made it through to Q2, but the gap to those ahead is really small and in fact the gaps all the way from the top are close. I am not getting downhearted because I know we have major improvements on the way and we just have to do the best we can with what we have until they come on stream. I think at the moment we are getting the maximum from this car and are not too far behind those just ahead of us. It's going to be a long hard race but I plan to keep fighting to the end."

Scott Speed:

"After yesterday's practice we knew we were going to struggle in qualifying. The guys in front of us are not so far away and we made some big improvements on the car just before qualifying, so at least I am going into the race with a much better car than I had earlier. We are quick down the strait because we have to be set up like this as we are down on acceleration and so need to take off alot of wing. The trade-off is that we are sliding alot in the infield section. But maybe this will give us a race car that we can do something with tomorrow. Our reliability so far this weekend has been okay and I hope that continues." 

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