Sutil hoping for top-five finish

Sutil was fastest in Fridays first practice session and made it to the third qualifying sessions Q3 but eventually had to be satisfied with a 12th-place finish after an opening lap tangle. Looking ahead,Sutil believes a top-five finish in Melbournes Albert Park is a possibility.

I think it was a very good start to the season. We were very competitive in free practice and then again in qualifying where both Tonio and myself were in the top 12, Sutil said. Everything went well until the start of the race for me but from the team perspective,at least one car got into the points. But now we want to go even higher in Australia. I think there is still potential to improve everything and get close to the top five or six, said the lanky German.

Sutil was particularly excited about the prospect of displaying his aggressive brand of racecraft in Melbourne. I think every driver was a bit cautious in Bahrain as it was the first race and we had to go a long distance on the soft tyre and nobody really knew the best way to call it. Now we will go to Australia and tweak it a bit more to the limit and start to be a more aggressive, he said.

Liuzzi,meanwhile,is keyed-up after scoring his first points for the Silverstone-based outfit and is seeking a repeat. The Bahrain race was encouraging and a great result for the team and myself. The team has worked so hard over the winter to find improvements and never gave up pushing,so to get two points in the first race is fantastic, said the Italian driver.

Liuzzi had high hopes from the updates that would be introduced before the Australian Grand Prix and said his immediate target was to gatecrash into Q3 on Saturday and then be among the points.