Toro Rosso hoping for more points in penultimate GP
Last Updated: November 7, 2011 10:05am
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Toro Rosso are determined to finish in the top 10 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix so that they can move up in the Constructors' Championship.
The Faenza-based squad are currently eighth in the standings - level on 41 points with seventh-placed Sauber - after picking up 12 points in the last two races in Korea and India. Force India are also in their sights in sixth place with 51 points.
With only two races left in the 2011 season, the team hope Sebastian Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari will again be in the points at the Yas Marina Circuit this weekend.
"Toro Rosso has scored points at every (ok, let's say both!) Abu Dhabi Grands Prix, as Sebastien Buemi came home eighth in 2009 and Jaime Alguersuari was ninth last year," the team said on its website.
"On current form, those are the positions that could realistically be available to us next Sunday, unless the front running teams face unexpected problems.
"While the actual World Championship titles have already been decided in favour of Red Bull Racing and (Sebastian) Vettel, Scuderia Toro Rosso is still involved in the nail-biting final stages of a late surge that could see us move up the order in the Constructors' Championship."
Overtaking proved to be very difficult during the first two editions of the Abu Dhabi GP, but the team are optimistic that the DRS, KERS and Pirelli tyres will change things this year.
"The first sector is fast and flowing and the drivers like it, then after that there are plenty of much slower corners which are less challenging, but then it was designed by Hermann Tilke to be a sort of Arabian Monaco so maybe that explains all the slow turns," the preview read.
"Just like Monaco, the 2010 race showed that overtaking is very difficult, so it will be interesting to see if this year's implementation of DRS, KERS and Pirelli tyres will change that."
Credit: Sky Sports (www.skysports.com)
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