Sebastien Buemi: Toro Rosso seem to be among the top 5 teams in 2011 – Formula 1 news
Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Buemi believes that his team seems to be among the top five teams according to the pre-season test sessions’ results.
It has been revealed that the new Toro Rosso car STR6 features an innovative double floor in it and it seems that the team’s new car has been quite impressive during the pre-season test sessions.
However, as stated before by many other teams, the results of these sessions do not matter much as each team has its own criteria of testing during each day of each session as a result of which, a team car’s potential cannot be judged completely by these
results only.
“We seem to be among the first five teams, based on the hierarchy of the winter testing. But since the regulations have changed significantly, the scope for development is strong at the beginning of the season, so things may have changed seriously by Australia,”
Sebastien told the media.
On the other hand, his teammate thinks differently, as he believes that the car might not be as competitive as the team expects. However, Buemi is optimistic and it seems that both of the drivers have a lot of burden on their shoulders this year along with
Daniel Ricciardo as well who is the team’s reserve driver.
However, the team’s co-owner Gerhard Berger recently stated that the young Australian deserves a chance to drive for the team.
“Ricciardo has earned this chance. If the two race drivers do not do enough, I hope Ricciardo gets the chance to step in for one of them,” Berger told the media.
The 2011 Formula 1 season is going to feature some new rules as the teams will use the Kinetic Energy Recovery System, a device that stores heat energy before converting it into Kinetic energy for later use and adjustable rear wings.
The adjustable rear wing is a device that increases or decreases the angle of a rear wing in order to increase or decrease the downforce of a car during a race.
Other than that, the introduction of the new lone tyre suppliers Pirelli is also going to add some ‘spice’ to racing this year with the introduction of new tyre compounds.
However in 2011, it is expected that the team which balances its respective car in the best way is going to be stronger than the rest of the teams. It seems that until the season opening race that is expected to take place in Australia on March 27, 2011,
evaluating each team’s respective car is not going to be possible for the spectators.
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