By Andrew Cutler
April 7 2007

The Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers gave their all during the qualifying for the Malaysian GP. Unfortunately, Scott Speed made a driver error that he blames for his failure to make it into the second qualifying session. He will line up 1n P17 on the grid tomorrow. Vitantonio Liuzzi did make it into Q2, but ended up being the slowest of the 16 cars to make the cut, so his starting position will only be one better than Scott's.

Here are their post qualifying comments as reported by www.formula1.com:

Vitantonio Liuzzi, Toro Rosso (16th, 1m 36.145s):
"It's quite good to make it into Q2, but unfortunately we still do not have the pace to go to Q3. We are learning and improving every time we go out on track and we have already made a step forward from the last race and we will continue to improve. Tomorrow afternoon we will not have an easy race with the hot conditions, but today I think I got the maximum out of this car. I think we can run better in tomorrow's race than we did in the last one, because we are using a bit more of the car's potential, but it won't be easy."

Scott Speed, Toro Rosso (17th, 1m 36.578s):
"We have definitely made a step forward with the car this weekend, which is good. But I did not manage to get everything out of it on my last run, as I made a mistake in the final corner. Without that, maybe I could have also got through to the second session. In any case, our pace is better, even though we have a long way to go. I think that as far as tomorrow's race is concerned, maybe we can run a bit more competitively than we did in Melbourne."