James Key: "We made some improvements"

Published on 28 November 2015 by Bas Winckels

James Key, Technical Director at Scuderia Toro Rosso, commented on today's performance of both Toro Rosso's: “We made some improvements to the car from yesterday, but the trend this weekend for us has been struggling to keep the option tyre to work over a single flying lap. Therefore we knew that qualifying was always going to be a bit tricky unless we solved that problem. We definitely made some steps forward and we are very happy with our prime performance today, but we didn’t completely rectify the issue regarding the option tyres. As a result, we were expecting a little bit more from qualifying today but did not make the most of it."

"Unfortunately, Max lost a bit of time in the first sector at the start of his last run in Q2 – literally only a few hundredths of a second", Key continues, "but that was just enough to knock him out of the top ten. We will have to use the fact that he starts on new tyres in the race to overtake and move forward as best possible, we know he can do this! To sum up the day, we can’t be totally satisfied with starting from P10 and P11 but the positive part is that on both tyre compounds our long-run pace from Friday running on high fuel was relatively better than our short runs. We’ve got one opportunity left to try and score some good points and we will do the best job we can. We have nothing to lose.”

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