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Toro Rosso in a spin at Suzuka
08 October 2006 / Results / PhotosScuderia Toro Rosso's Tonio Liuzzi suffered a 360-degree spin at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix and on his way to fourteenth. Team mate Scott Speed spun off while trying to pass Robert Doornbos.
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"It was a very difficult race and it started with a collision with Mark which I think affected the handling of the car for at least the first five or six laps until I got used to it," Liuzzi said. "I also had some graining on the tyres at the beginning, which caused me to spin. After that, I was struggling a bit with set up, but as we were far away from getting any points, it did not make much difference."
Scott Speed commented, "I've had great starts all season and this was another really good one. I was battling around the outside of Tonio but I didn't want to crash into my team-mate, so I gave up fighting for that particular position. I had a strong first stint managing to keep David behind me, but we lost out to them in the pit stops when they came in ahead of us. Then I had a spin because I was pushing probably a bit too hard trying to pass Doornbos. I turned in a bit early and clipped the inside kerb which is hard to see at that corner. I was over aggressive. I pulled into the pits at the end with a power steering failure."
Team boss Gerhard Berger added, "Unfortunately both our drivers had a spin each! I was expecting a bit more as, after qualifying, there was hope we could do something good. But as is often the case, things turned out differently in the race."
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