"Shanghai is a very good track and it should suit our car quite well," he opined, "I hope we can continue the form that we’ve demonstrated in the last few races because it’s now really important that we keep
Red Bull Racing behind us in the constructors’ championship."
Wurz, meanwhile, continues to fight for his place on the front line of
Formula One, with a host of young replacements - and not so young if rumours surrounding
Giancarlo Fisichella are to be believed - being tipped to replace him. The Austrian is not thinking about that, however, and relishing a return to China this weekend.
"I remember the Shanghai track very well from last year, when I had an awesome time as Williams’ Friday driver, posting the quickest times during both practice sessions," he recalled, "The layout of the track should suit our car and my driving style, so I’m going there with high hopes for a good result for the penultimate grand prix of the season. Just talking about it makes me want to be there driving it already!"
Scuderia Toro Rosso – Vitantonio Liuzzi (#18), Sebastian Vettel (#19):
If ever a team was left to wonder what might have been, then Toro Rosso could well be that team following a Japanese Grand Prix that promised much but ultimately delivered little – or at least has done for the moment.
Sebastien Vettel produced a drive that belied his lack of experience at Fuji to climb into a podium position but what happened next will have hurt him more than most as his chance of the first top three finish in the team’s short history after his coming together with Red Bull stable-mate
Mark Webber put both out of the race. While the conditions played a part in the rookie climbing so high, his performance will have been a boost to the whole team as it seeks to pick up its first point of the season – with everyone else having now managed to get off the mark, the exception being
McLaren after they were stripped of all their points due to the
F1 spying row.
