Italian GP - Toro Rosso Ferrari - RaceTonio Liuzzi and Sebastian Vettel finished the Italian Grand Prix in 17th and 18th positions respectively, with five seconds separating the two. Vettel lost ground at the start of the race as he was forced to pit after losing his front
wing after making contact with Anthony Davidson. He was however fortunate that David Coulthard's subsequent accident brought out the safety car and allowed him to close to the back of the field.
Tonio Liuzzi
“The most positive thing from this weekend is that we saw the chequered flag again. In the race we did not have enough pace to get ahead of the cars in front. From my point of view I had a good race, although I had a bit of understeer in the first stint, which cost me a lot of time. My second stint was quite strong. Our pace was not too bad after we improved the car on Saturday morning, but in qualifying we did not get the most out of the car. We struggled to stay with other cars when we were in their slipstream as I really lost a lot of downforce when I was near to other cars. All we can do now is to look forward to trying again in Spa.”
Sebastian Vettel
“My start was okay and then I saw David coming up my right hand side, which forced me to go round the outside and then in the second chicane, unfortunately I ran into Davidson. It was partly my fault.
I was happy the Safety Car came out as I didn’t lose too much. But later, I had a big problem with the brakes and we will have to find out what caused it. I was hardly able to stop the car and at this high speed track you need to have confidence in the brakes. Today was a bit frustrating, after I had a good day yesterday.”
Gerhard Berger
“It was unfortunate that Sebastian lost his wing on the first lap. All we could hope for, given our grid positions, was to take advantage of the Safety Car or other retirements as we were not quick enough to overtake other cars. The good thing about the weekend is that time wise, if you look at the lap times between Webber in ninth place and ours in seventeenth, there is not an enormous difference. We still have to improve, particularly in terms of qualifying better and then that will give us a better chance to do well in the race.”
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