Liuzzi explains hard tyre struggle

Vitantonio Liuzzi said his lack of pace in the British Grand Prix was because he wasn’t able to get good performance out of the hard tyres:

It was pretty upsetting because we don?óÔé¼Ôäót know what happened with the first set of tyres. With the hard tyres at the beginning we had a huge amount of understeer, and I couldn?óÔé¼Ôäót drive to the apex every time, it was really washing out.

And suddenly once we changed to the soft tyres it was another world. We were able to push, we had a really good pace, and we were able to catch our competitors. I caught the group of Adrian [Sutil], Nico H?â??lkenberg and Michael Schumacher without any problem, and I was also keeping Fernando Alonso behind.

When we went to the soft tyres I went down with the front wing and the car was balanced and was good. It was a shame because even with the soft tyre we struggled with a lack of top speed, which we?óÔé¼Ôäód had since the beginning of the race. We lost a few kph on the straight, and we don?óÔé¼Ôäót understand why, but we have to analyse it.
Vitantonio Liuzzi

While team mate Adrian Sutil has scored points in all of the last six races, Liuzzi has only made it into the top ten twice, something he intends to change at the Hockenheimring next week:

It?óÔé¼Ôäós not as linked to downforce as Silverstone, so maybe we should be more competitive and with a better pace. We have to try to score points with both cars to be back in the fight. In Silverstone I was close, but we knew it was not a track for our car?óÔé¼Ôäós best characteristics.

I think Hockenheim will be better for us, but we still have to work hard and bring some developments. It has a very flat surface, or it did when we were last there two years ago! So you can use a much stiffer set-up, a much lower car.

I grew up in Germany in F3, so I really like it, and I drove quite a bit there. So I?óÔé¼Ôäóm looking forward to it. I think we could be in a strong position.
Vitantonio Liuzzi

Compare Liuzzi and Sutil’s lap times: Force India race review

2010 British Grand Prix

• Technical review: British Grand Prix
• Liuzzi explains hard tyre struggle
• Ten F1 fans’ stories from Silverstone
• 2010 British Grand Prix – the complete F1 Fanatic race weekend review
• Was new Silverstone a success? (Poll)
• Alonso: we’ll catch Red Bull in Germany
• Michael wants Silverstone bumps eased
• Who was the best driver of the British Grand Prix weekend? (Poll)
• Both cars in points (Williams race review)
• Kobayashi takes sixth (Sauber race review)