Abu Dhabi Friday quotes: Toro Rosso

Sebastien Buemi - 18th: "And so we come to the final Friday of the season. The track here is still quite a novelty as we have only been here once before and today the surface was rather green. I had a lot of degradation on the tyres this morning, but we felt this would be the situation from what we saw here last year. We expected a big improvement and indeed that was the case, but I was unable to get the most out of the soft tyres because I spun into Turn 16 on a quick lap. Overall, we have done a good day's work, trying various different set-ups which have shown us which direction to go in tomorrow to try and improve and there was no problem going from daylight to night in terms of visibility."

Laurent Mekies (Chief Engineer): "We were expecting a standard Friday programme, but this morning's rain took us by surprise and it meant that everyone only really started running until a bit later. From then on, it was a standard session, apart from losing a bit of track time with Jaime, when he spun off the track during his quick run on option tyres. Fortunately there was no damage, but unfortunately the car stalled so he was unable to continue. We had no reliability issues throughout the day, going through quite a few test items so we have a sufficient amount of data. On the tyre front, the situation is not black and white, which will make the next two days interesting. Last year, was very unusual with everyone finding the Prime to be behaving better than the Option."