“I am looking forward to the weekend and I hope we can get a decent result because we have shown if everything goes well, our car is capable of scoring points. I am aiming to keep up my good record of qualifying in the top 10 and then hopefully I can score points again."
Red Bull Racing – David Coulthard (#14), Mark Webber (#15):
Red Bull found themselves back in their mid-field natural habitat in Hungary, their third and fifth place finish at the Nurburgring nowhere near to being repeated two weeks later.
Indeed, it was an achingly anonymous event for both Mark Webber and
David Coulthard, the duo qualifying ninth and tenth and then embarking on an afternoon’s drive that merely yielded ninth and eleventh by the chequered flag.
Nonetheless, consistency is coming Red Bull’s way now, as it reliability, their double finish in Hungary proving only their third of the season.
Istanbul was far from kind to the team last year though, with Christian Klien’s top ten qualifying position the only real highlight of a weekend that produced no points. Still, the team know their way around the circuit, Coulthard finishing seventh in 2005 and Webber qualifying inside the top ten for both races – even if he is yet to finish at the circuit. Both drivers though will be looking to record good points on merit this weekend, and not just because those ahead fall off the circuit.
Williams – Nico Rosberg (#16), Alex Wurz (#17):
Williams pulled slightly away in their quest to maintain fifth position in the constructor standings after Nico Rosberg finished seventh in Hungary, even if his ill-judged three-stop pit strategy failed to make the most of his fourth place starting position.
With now almost double the points total they managed in 2006, Williams have shown strong performance at various stages of the year, Rosberg’s Hungarian endeavour a case point, the German having proved strong the whole weekend.
