Spanish GP - Toro Rosso Ferrari - RaceToro Rosso brought a revised package to the Spanish Grand prix but despite showing an upturn in pace, leave Barcelona disappointed after a hydraulic failure eliminated Tonio Liuzzi and a dramatic tyre failure ended Scott Speed’s race.
Tonio
Liuzzi
“I retired with a hydraulic problem. We have been suffering with mechanical difficulties since Friday. I had another problem at the start and lost three places. Of course it’s a shame as many other cars seemed to have problems and we could have made up even more places and I was already up to twelfth when I had to retire. Our race pace is definitely better than in qualifying and so that is something we must now try and improve on before Monaco, as well as working a lot on our reliability.”
Scott Speed
“The start and the opening couple of laps were fun, going from last on the grid to fourteenth. Then a couple of laps before I retired I noticed the tyre was going down so I was evidently losing some air pressure.
Eventually the tyre just exploded as I was going down the straightaway. The car dragged on the track and there was no way to continue.”
Franz Tost
“A very disappointing weekend. The start was okay from both drivers who did a good job in the early laps. Unfortunately we then suffered a technical failure on Tonio’s car as he lost hydraulic fluid. We will now have to investigate to find out why. Scott had a problem with his left rear tyre. This will also need investigating. Now we are testing at Paul Ricard where we will have to work on our reliability issues.”
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