GP Europe: FIA Thursday press conference
Q: Vitantonio, a good 13th place in Montreal. It doesn’t sound fantastic but 13th place is pretty good for an HRT car in the last race.
Vitantonio Liuzzi: “Definitely, for us it was a good achievement. It was a big target for us. We know that in dry conditions that target would be pretty impossible if the race goes normally. But everybody did a great job. We have to use that kind of situation where it is a bit of a crazy race like happened in Montreal to use it and optimise everything and the result came.
Thirteenth position is the best result of the Hispania team and our target is half done as we did a step forward in terms of the Constructors’ Championship and we are pushing really hard. We bring also some development every race. We had a good one for Montreal.
It helped already in the dry as we have been ahead of Marussia Virgin in qualifying and in the race the crazy conditions helped us. But everybody did a really good job in the pit-stop, in strategy, and I think everybody has to be pretty pleased as I think everybody did a good job for the target we want to achieve this year.”
Q: Is Marussia Virgin where you have to look? You cannot look any further, Lotus?
VL: “Of course our target, we said from the beginning of the season, is to try to beat both, Virgin and Lotus. We know it is not going to be easy but that’s what we are aiming for. Lotus is a bit further ahead in terms of lap time in dry condition but the programme for the championship is quite interesting.
A lot of development should be coming soon. We are pushing day and night. It is not easy when you are a back marker but you are still fighting with other teams and you don’t have to give up.”
Q: And you have got new bits here I think?
VL: “We have some little things coming here in terms of the mechanical side but we are aiming for a bigger one for Silverstone.”