Liuzzi content with race performance

The Toro Rosso driver, who endured a troubled start to the weekend on Friday, put on a promising qualifying showing and completed his strong Grand Prix with a solid 12th place in the race.

"I feel I drove a good race, with some nice passing moves," said Liuzzi. "This weekend started on Friday with several problems, but qualifying went very well and I gained two places on the grid because of other people's problems. So I don't think we could have done better.

"Given how difficult this track is, I think the weekend went better than expected, as we showed we had a good race pace compared to the Red Bull Racing cars.

"It was a job well done apart from a problem with the right front wheel during the pitstop which cost me a few seconds, that meant I could not fight with Button. But he retired anyway."

Sebastian Vettel was forced to retire after just nine laps when he was unable to steer his car to the right.

"I retired because I could not steer the car to the right," he said. "It was a problem with the steering but we don't yet know exactly what it was. In left hand corners it was fine. The problem was getting worse and at first we thought it might be something related to the tyres.

"But as soon as I left the pits with new tyres and went into the first right hand corner, I could feel the same problem. A real shame as the race was only five laps old and we seemed to have quite a good race pace."