By Andrew Cutler
October 5 2007

It was another typical Friday practice session day for the Scuderia Toro Rosso duo. Once again, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Sebastian Vettel find themselves near the bottom of the time charts and looking for to accentuate the positive as they prepare for qualifying tomorrow.

Tonio would put in 22 laps in the morning session at the Shanghai circut with a best time of 1:39.497, 17th best. He would log a further 36 laps in the afternoon & improve his best time to a 1:39.065, but would slip to 18th on the charts.

Sebastian would post a best of 1:39.898 for his 24 morning laps, 20th on the charts. His afternoon best would be a slightly faster 1:39.404 but, like Tonio, he would lose one spot in the session's rankings.

Here are their post-session comments:

Tonio Liuzzi

“A decent Friday as we covered a high mileage without any problems. We have a clear picture as far as tyres are concerned. On new rubber we could not get the most out of the tyres so our times on both prime and option were not quite as good as they should have been but we already have a good idea of what to run in the qualifying and the race. Overall, a positive day, but we still need to improve as our lap times are a long way off the pace, although you never know what fuel loads the others are running.”

Sebastian Vettel

“As is often the case on a Friday, the track was quite green this morning, which made life difficult, but this afternoon, things improved as more rubber went down. However, looking at where we are in the order today, we cannot be happy and there is a lot we have to do to improve. So the first job will be to analyse the runs and hopefully make a step forward tomorrow morning.”