Sebastian Vettel
(STR2B-04)
Pos. 17th
“I had a good start and then, all of a sudden I realised I had a puncturedrear left tyre, so I had to pit immediately. My second problem came at thefirst pit stop, when the refueling rig had a problem, no fuel went in, so I hadto come in immediately again. From then on it was a tough race and I couldnot have done any better. At least I saw the chequered flag!”
Sébastien Bourdais
(STR2B-01)
Retired
“Something broke at the back of the car, I don’t know what it was yet. Goinginto Turn 12, I braked at the usual point and the car went sideways, I felt theright rear corner of the car drop and it spun me round. It’s a shame, as upuntil then it had been going quite well and I was just about hanging onto theToyota in front of me and keeping the Renault behind me. Of course, theproblem at my pit stop with the refuelling had not helped.”
Franz Tost:
“Both our drivers got good starts, but in the first lap, Vettelwas hit by another car, got a puncture and had to pit to change tyres. Afterthat he was having a reasonable race, but when he came in for hisscheduled stop, unfortunately, there was a problem with the refueling rigand he had to be called in again next time round, as no fuel had gone intothe car. This cost him over twenty seconds, but at least he finished the race.We had a similar problem with Bourdais’ stop, but this time, we spotted itbefore he left the pits and we switched to the spare fuel rig. After that, heBourdais had a problem at Turn 12, which the data reveals as a technicalfailure that we will now investigate. We are glad the STR2 era is over andnow we look forward to running our new car, as from the next race inMonaco.”
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