Reaction Franz Tost and Renault after the Spanish GP

Published on 10 May 2015 by Johan Peeters

Franz Tost, team principal of Scuderia Toro Rosso, says after the race in Barcelona: “We had a very good qualifying performance yesterday, finishing fifth and sixth, which meant we started today’s race in a good position. In the first stint we were simply too slow on the straight and therefore we couldn’t do much to avoid being overtaken by a few of our direct competitors. As in the second stint on Prime tyres we lost too much time, we decided to change our strategy for the last part of the race, where Carlos went out on Option tyres and Max on Prime. This generated a very good fight at the end, especially from Carlos’ side, who did a good maneuver against Daniil Kvyat and I think he deserved this ninth position. I’m satisfied with our qualifying performance, but now we have to work and also improve our race pace.”

Tost continues: “The team will now remain here in Barcelona for the two-day test. On Tuesday it will be Red Bull Junior Team driver Pierre Gasly at the wheel of the car, while Carlos will drive the following day before heading to Monaco, where we hope we can show a further improvement.”

Cedrik Staudohar, Renault Sport F1 track support leader says after the race in Barcelona: “We are pleased to score a couple of points here after the disappointing weekend in Bahrain. We put a lot of effort in at Viry to bring reliability updates, which proved to be successful. Both power units worked well over the weekend and helped the team find a good set-up for qualifying. We were expecting a bit more today following the great performance yesterday so we have to understand why we lost out compared to our direct competitors, but we’ll push with the team in the next races to bring more performance to the cars.”