Sebastien Buemi \u2013 Retirement<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00ab I had a great start, moving from eleventh to sixth place after the first corner, which was fantastic. I was able to follow Alonso and Hamilton’s pace. Then, Perez tried to overtake me and simply crashed into me, which completely destroyed my rear wing, and I had no other option but to bring the car back to the garage and retire.<\/p>\n
I really can’t understand what he was trying to do, as I was clearly in front of him: the impact was so strong that he must have forgotten to brake.<\/p>\n
Next time, we will be in Monza for our home race and, while our car seems to have improved in terms of performance, we’ll see what we can do there.<\/p>\n
Jaime Alguersuari \u2013 Withdrawal<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00ab I don’t want to speak ill of the other drivers, because that’s not my style, but I think the situation is clear for everyone. As we approached the hairpin after the start, I was in the middle with Senna on the inside and Fernando on the outside, and Senna completely missed his braking point and hit me, which sent me into the Ferrari.<\/p>\n
However, there are many positive things to take away from this weekend, as we clearly had a car capable of scoring points today, which would have been a fitting tribute to the hard work put in by the team.<\/p>\n
I’m sorry for the guys because it doesn’t happen every day for us to finish in sixth place. Now I’m looking towards Monza, as I see no reason why we can’t be competitive there and score more points.<\/p>\n
Franz Tost, Team Principal<\/b><\/p>\n
Our two drivers had a very short race before being involved in accidents that were not their fault, a viewpoint shared by the stewards who penalized Senna and Perez for their respective collisions with Jaime and Sebastien.<\/p>\n
Of course, it’s very disappointing after showing such strong performance in qualifying, which means we were hoping to score a lot of points today.<\/p>\n
However, on the positive side, our two drivers performed very well over the weekend, and all the new developments introduced on the STR6 seem to have delivered a performance boost. Given all the work done in the weeks leading up to the summer break, at the Faenza factory and in the Bicester wind tunnel, I think everyone at Scuderia Toro Rosso deserved a better reward than seeing our two cars retire so early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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