Toro Rosso: Alguersuari eighth from pit lane start

2011 Canadian GP team review

June 13, 2011 at 4:20 pm by Keith Collantine

Toro Rosso got both cars home in the points for the first time in over two years and moved ahead of Force India to seventh place in the constructors’ championship.

	Sebastien Buemi	Jaime Alguersuari
Qualifying position	15	18
Qualifying time comparison (Q1)	1’15.901 (-0.393)	1’16.294
Race position	10	8
Laps	70/70	70/70
Pit stops	4	3

Toro Rosso drivers’ lap times throughout the race (in seconds):

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2011drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
Sebastien Buemi	154.44	124.982	124.65	120.316	101.802	103.407	99.259	106.626	112.733	131.269	125.877	118.711	98.827	98.761	98.894	99.594	113.407	96.034	109.579	131.643	106.623	108.959	108.169	131.092		146.686	129.518	121.862	119.901	120	120.528	122.155	122.59	132.814	95.903	95.706	104.218	112.425	125.745	119.466	95.195	93.392	92.667	92.2	93.274	91.236	90.214	90.846	91.334	109.227	99.317	89.521	88.547	86.149	85.818	87.372	104.855	95.189	95.454	116.418	90.001	83.918	84.157	82.383	81.819	81.615	80.248	83.385	79.507	81.659
Jaime Alguersuari	169.371	121.375	125.704	116.127	100.808	99.685	100.4	108.12	112.352	130.517	126.912	117.512	97.865	98.954	98.47	97.102	97.831	97.569	123.011	115.732	109.781	108.446	107.144	136.239		144.099	127.531	122.994	120.813	120.773	120.639	123.09	121.984	118.5	112.317	97.589	103.914	112.309	125.763	119.89	94.894	93.403	92.265	92.317	91.765	90.043	89.462	90.067	90.873	88.322	104.46	98.753	86.628	85.906	86.666	84.07	104.624	105.271	93.82	119.177	88.804	83.192	82.073	81.488	82.515	81.665	81.582	81.21	80.371	80.423

Sebastien Buemi

Buemi was among the first cars to switch to slicks on lap 50 and felt he had made the change too soon.

But the earlier call to switch to intermediates before the race suspension – which his team mate did not do – probably cost him more time.

He was 12th with three laps to go but Paul di Resta’s retirement and Nico Rosberg’s broken wing helped him claim tenth.

Sebastien Buemi 2011 form guide

Jaime Alguersuari, Narain Karthikeyan, Montreal, 2011

Jaime Alguersuari

Alguersuari decided to start from the pits on a wet weather set-up. He had been the quickest car in the speed trap in qualifying, indicating he was not running with a lot of downforce.

Staying on wets early on the race helped him up to 14th. He kept his pit stops to a minimum and stayed out of trouble to rise to eighth place.

Felipe Massa passed him six laps from home, but he took advantage of the ailing Rosberg to move up a place on the last lap and claim his first points of the year.

Jaime Alguersuari 2011 form guide

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13 comments on Toro Rosso: Alguersuari eighth from pit lane start

Philonso (@philonso) said on 13th June 2011, 16:29

could be vital for alguesuari’s career

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- AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 13th June 2011, 22:46
  
  I fear you may be right!
  
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dyslexicbunny said on 13th June 2011, 16:30

Good on Alguersuari. He was looking like he was bound to be replaced by Ricciardo in the future. But I think both were aided by the retirements ahead of them. They’ve got some work ahead of them.

BasCB (@bascb) said on 13th June 2011, 16:37

I am curious to see how this pans out for Alguersuari this year. What will we thing at the end of the year if he again has a very strong mid/second half of the season?

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- Fixy (@fixy) said on 13th June 2011, 17:38
  
  That his first half was short on results. In a chaotic race like this, staying out of problems is enough to be in the points. Hopefully this result gives him confidence so he can perform better.
  
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  - BasCB (@bascb) said on 14th June 2011, 6:44
    
    I agree, after too many mistakes in the first races this year, it took a chaos race for him to get back to killer instinct finisher.
    It might well get his season/career going again.
    
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Lee Harrison said on 13th June 2011, 19:13

Wonder if this result could make Alguersuari’s season the way it made Kovalainen’s when he was struggling for Renault in 2007. Surprised he’s started so badly since he seemed to have Buemi covered most of last year.

MattHT (@mattht) said on 13th June 2011, 22:14

Agree with Fixy here, people can call up the amount of chaos infront of him as a reason for his high finish – but you have to keep a cool head to battle through it all, and many others did not. Good drive from Jaime at a time when he needed it the most.

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- AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 13th June 2011, 22:52
  
  Worked for Jenson!
  
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- Tom L. (@tom-l) said on 13th June 2011, 23:19
  
  Keeping a cool head with chaos unfolding around him isn’t a quality we usually associate with Alguersuari but he proved today that he could do it. He certainly made less mistakes yesterday than a certain Jenson Button!
  
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  - Marco said on 14th June 2011, 8:41
    
    “Keeping a cool head with chaos unfolding around him isn’t a quality we usually associate with Alguersuari”
    
    Really? He was strong also in changeable conditions at Spa-Francorchamps last year and he was also fast at rainy Yeongyeam… But people as usual forget, that his pitcrew messed his pitstop there, so he lost 4 places… So you are completely wrong here, because exactly chaotic conditions with rain are the ones, in which he is good… Btw. signs of improvement were already in Monaco, where he overtook Buemi on track… The situation caused by Adrian s Sutil puncture lead to that unlucky crash of him and Vitaly Petrov… But this know only people, who are following his performances closely and
    don t look just on results…
    
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 13th June 2011, 22:51

Just what they needed after Alguesuari’s qualifying with Ricciardo in his face.

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- Marco said on 14th June 2011, 8:43
  
  Ricciardo was slower on Friday in Canada
  (2 tenths) and extremely slower on the long run, so at the moment he is not on the performance level of two current drivers…