
June 1st, 2010

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Scuderia Toro Rosso might not have scored any points in the Turkish Grand Prix, but both Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi fought valiantly throughout on their way to finishing twelfth and sixteenth respectively.
Having had a disappointing qualifying, the team went for an unusual strategy, with our two drivers the only ones, apart from Hulkenberg, to start on the harder tyre, having ascertained that the softer one, while naturally being faster, did not seem to suffer significantly more on the degradation front. With Jaime, the strategy nearly delivered a point, because after he had built up a comfortable cushion over Liuzzi’s Force India, the team brought him in for fresh rubber for a second time. From that point on, our Spanish boy was flying and if he hadn’t been delayed by a lapped Hulkenberg and if the race had been a couple of laps longer, he could have caught and passed the two Saubers, lapping much slower than him. In fact, it’s some scant consolation that Jaime set the third fastest lap of the race; quite an achievement when you look at the quality of the rest of the field.