Albers, meanwhile, was present at
Silverstone last week, testing tyres for the final round - and benefiting from better weather than temporary team-mate Viso 'enjoyed' for his maiden run. The Dutchman, however, will be looking for similar fortune, having had his Japanese GP end abruptly after a dramatic driveshaft failure.
"I saw the right rear wheel passing me, and also the rear wing," he reflects, "But that’s life - you drive F1 and you get paid for things like that. It’s not like I’m sitting on a bicycle going to school! But it’s a shame for the boys, because we were quite competitive, like we were in Turkey. With the car we have at this moment we can’t go quicker but, if we get everything together really well, and prepare really well, then we have a chance.
"I think I should go maximum attack for Brazil, although it is a track where we need top speed. We don’t have that, but Japan was a track where you need top speed, and we were still competitive."
Scuderia Toro Rosso – Vitantonio Liuzzi (#20), Scott Speed (#21):
Scuderia Toro Rosso completes its maiden season at the Brazilian Grand Prix, and will look back on the year with mixed emotions.
Mistakes from its rookie drivers were perhaps inevitable, but it has become noticeable recently that team boss Gerhard Berger has tired of their excesses, particularly the number of spins that Tonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed have endured. Running with the venerable Cosworth V10 has also held the team back, leaving it with just a single point to show for its efforts, but it can at least complete Interlagos knowing that
Renault or
Ferrari power awaits next year.
Like Shanghai and Suzuka, Interlagos will be a new circuit to both drivers, requiring yet another learning curvew to be scaled, but the track's tricky nature, its unpredictable climate and the end-of-term feel to the weekend may yet play into the hands of messrs Liuzzi and Speed...
Super Aguri F1 – Takuma Sato (#22), Sakon Yamamoto (#23):
Like Toro Rosso, Super Aguri F1 also closes the first chapter inits F1 existence at Interlagos, and, like Spyker M
F1, the team is hoping to end its season with at least one point.
