James Key has mixed feelings after qualifying in Austria

Published on 20 June 2015 by Johan Peeters

James Key, Technical Director of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after qualifying on Saturday in Spielberg: “Today’s wet conditions were positive for us and we knew this would help us because it neutralizes the track a bit. Both drivers did very well in Q1 and we were very happy with their performance in the wet as well as in the drying conditions. We were hopeful of getting both cars into Q3 and Max did a very good job to get through with a competitive time on what was practically a dry track."

"Unfortunately Carlos missed his first timed lap and then got some traffic on his second one. If we also add the fact that he didn’t get an Option run this morning in FP3, it made it even trickier for him as he was still learning in Q2. To see Max get into Q3 and finish in P7 is great, we were not expecting to be so strong here.”