1 Alonso Renault 1:12.296 132.838 mph
2 Massa Ferrari 1:12.353 0.057
3 Trulli Toyota 1:12.435 0.139

6 Vettel Toro Rosso 1:12.687 0.391

1 F. Massa Ferrari 1:12.305 24
2 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:12.495
3 K. Räikkönen Ferrari 1:12.507

17 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:13.836

Sebastian Vettel says he will not let the emotions of his final race at Scuderia Toro Rosso divert his attention away from delivering another good result on track.

The German has played a central role in helping Toro Rosso become one of the surprises of the season - with the highlight being that maiden victory at the Italian Grand Prix.

And although Vettel is to end his 18-month relationship with the team in Brazil this weekend, he says he is heading to Interlagos treating it like any other grand prix.

"To be honest I will not think about this being the last race," he told autosport.com. "We will just go out there and do our job.

"We are not as big as Ferrari and McLaren, we are focused and we are here to achieve something. Even though it might be the last race, I am sure in all our heads there will only be the performance on Saturday and Sunday.

"We will try our best. Then on Sunday night we have a good opportunity to party together!"

Toro Rosso are currently five points ahead of sister team Red Bull Racing in the fight for sixth place in the constructors' championship thanks to the strong run of results in the second half of the campaign.

But despite the shock result in Italy, Vettel says the team will be happy simply to add a few more points to their tally in the last race of the season.

"We just want to keep going," he said. "Obviously winning is usually not in our range, and in a normal qualifying we are not playing with the big boys.

"In Q2 with a light car it seems we are pretty close, but when you put fuel in the car you can see how good or bad it can be. You can talk however much you want, but there is a gap to the big teams.

"Monza was all perfect for us. We were quickest in those conditions and on that day, and we did the best job. I think maybe we should not look at Monza but look at all the other races to see our true performance, as in the last couple of races it was good enough to score points consistently.

"So we have a good package, and it is up to us to use it. But you cannot always be on the top level. Otherwise Ferrari and McLaren would win all the races with a 1-2, or 1-3, or a 1-4, and the first four places would be sold to Ferrari and McLaren."

Unfortunately, Italian Air Traffic Controllers were on strike again last December, so Father Christmas was unable to deliver a new Formula 1 car to the Faenza factory in time for the start of the season and we went to Melbourne with the old 2007 car.

To save money on sign-writing on the car and on driver overalls, we advertised for a new team-mate for Sebastian Vettel, the only condition being that he too should be called Seb. We found a multiple Champ Car champion called Bourdais. Vettel was angry at no longer being the only Seb in the team and went on a go-slow protest, only completing 39 laps in the first four races of the season. Bourdais meanwhile would have finished fourth in his first GP in Melbourne and was eventually classified seventh after his car let him down in the closing stages. But the result still meant we had some points right from race one.

We had to wait until Monaco to get some more points, courtesy of Vettel's fifth place. The street race also marked the debut of our new car, the STR3, which Bourdais qualified 13th. It should have appeared a fortnight earlier in Turkey, but it got "broken" in a testing accident. The team might have been for sale this weekend or maybe not, it's hard to remember.

In Canada, Vettel was still sulking about having another driver called Seb in the team, refused to go to the grid, but was eventually persuaded to start from pit lane, to bring home another point for eighth place. This weekend the team was going to be bought by a consortium of Nigerian Banks. All we had to do was send them one hundred dollars and all our bank details and they would send us millions by return.

At the French Grand Prix, the whole country was in party mood as Red Bull was officially on sale in France for the first time. President Nikolas Sarkosi offered to buy our team out of gratitude: "It is only because I drink Red Bull that a beautiful woman like Carla Bruni would even look at a short man with platform heels in his shoes," he said (allegedly.) Out of politeness to the French, as Red Bull Racing uses Renault
engines, Ferrari-powered Seb and Seb let Webber and Coulthard finish ahead of them at Magny-Cours.

From Europe to China, our Sebs stepped up a gear, with both men getting into the Top Ten on the grid every time, apart from Bourdais in Singapore. And apart from Shanghai, we scored points at every venue. Did something happen at Monza? Oh yes, Gerhard Berger's memory was even worse than usual and for some reason, he walked onto the podium at the end of the Italian Grand Prix. Fortunately, Vettel
quickly ran up and brought him down again. He was given a nice big trophy for his quick thinking.
Paying great attention to detail, Franz Tost insisted that, in preparation for the Singapore night race, the team be kept in the dark and only allowed out at night. For our Communications Department this was normal procedure at every race.

Giorgio Ascanelli did not come to Fuji. Worried about another potential Air Traffic Controller's strike preventing Father Christmas from delivering a 2009 car, our technical director decided to stay at home and make his own. Going into the final race of the season, Scuderia Toro Rosso has one win and 34
points. Last year it scored a total of 8.

Source: F1complete.com

Sir Frank Williams has tipped F1's youngest ever race winner to soon be challenging for world titles.

Germany's 21-year-old Sebastian Vettel recorded both his and Toro Rosso's first victory recently at Monza, and next year he will step up to Red Bull's senior team.

"I think, if Vettel can get himself in the right team, he can be winning world championships within two years," Williams, the 66-year-old boss and co-owner of his eponymous team, is quoted as saying by Bild newspaper.
Source: F1Live

Christian Horner (RBR) gave an interview to formula1.com and mentioned Seb in a few questions. We picked tem up for you:

Q: Red Bull Technology is supplying your team and Toro Rosso. Why is the ‘Newey touch’ working better for them than for you?
CH: There are two factors. One, for sure, is that STR has done a very good job, as the differences in the chassis are absolutely negligible. And they have an extremely good driver. The driver has done a stunning job in the second half of the season. If you paired Sebastian’s results together with Mark’s season the outcome would look pretty good. Sebastian has emerged as a real star and we know that the car that has been developed by Adrian and his team is a good car.

Q: Was Sebastian Vettel’s Monza win damaging for Red Bull Racing, and if so, how?
CH: Not at all. We both belong to the same parent and obviously it was a great result for Red Bull. You must remember that from the 600 people that we are in Milton Keynes, probably 550 have been involved on both cars, and it’s not just the design. Sebastian’s Monza win demonstrated that we are on the right path with our development and it will be up to us to capitalize on that in 2009.

Q: David is preparing for a new career and new life outside the race cockpit. Has there been any attempt to move Vettel into his RBR seat early, in the final stages of this season?
CH: David started the season with us and it was always clear that he will end it with the chequered flag in Brazil.
Source: F1.com