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Toro Rosso just missed out on a point

Scuderia Toro Rosso was close to scoring the team's first point of the season with Scott Speed. The American driver had to settle for a ninth place finish though in the end. Liuzzi was unable to finish the race. The Italian crashed out of the race in the opening lap.

Speaking about his Monaco Grand Prix Scott Speed said: "I got a good launch off the grid and as everyone bottled up going into Turn 1, I made an aggressive move round the outside and it paid off as I got around David and we battled hard. Then I think we had a reasonably good pace in the race. In terms of the strategy, maybe I should have pitted a bit earlier, but Kimi was out of reach anyway. I enjoyed myself but every time for the last 15 laps I was hoping someone would drop out and that I'd see my pit board go from P9 to P8 to get that point, but it never happened."

Liuzzi's race was short. He crashed out of the race in the first lap and commented on his race: "I was hit hard at the first corner after the start by someone behind me and I think it must have damaged something, because the car was not right after that. But I tried to do one more lap and then as I came over the bump at corner three I lost control. It was a real shame because I had a reasonably good starting position so I was optimistic I could do something good this afternoon."

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