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Bourdais plays down new car risk

Sebastien Bourdais has played down talk of Scuderia Toro Rosso taking a major risk by introducing its new car at this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix. Traditionally teams shy away from drastic changes at Monaco because of the high risk of damage because of the lack of run-off areas.

"The big risk is if you wreck it and you don't have any spares," Bourdais said. "That's the risk, but I think it is not more risky to bring the STR3 than the STR2B. We have spare parts, so we can make one or two mistakes but not too many, so that kind of dictates how the weekend goes for us. If you make one you know that your joker is out and you have got to be careful."

Reflecting on his season so far, Bourdais added, "It has been interesting. I think we had an awesome start to the season in Melbourne, at least the race. Then we were quite clearly lacking pace to be in the top 10. Hopefully this is the second start for us for the season and things can turn around a bit and we can be a bit more competitive."

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