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Sebastien Buemi: "Ending up 15th and 16th behind the Williams was not good enough" © Getty Images

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Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi has called on his team to improve its qualifying pace in order to continue scoring points.

Buemi finished eighth at last weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, securing four points and his best result of the season. Toro Rosso is now level on points with Williams, but Buemi said that if it wants to move ahead it needs to focus on its weaknesses in qualifying.

"Our race pace was good, but where we suffered was in qualifying, because ending up 15th and 16th on the grid, behind the Williams was just not good enough," he said. "It's clear that we are much more competitive in the race than in qualifying, where we are not producing the results we want. We need to be starting the races from the top ten or at a maximum in the top twelve. I believe we and by that I mean, the drivers and the team, are not getting the most out of the new tyre on the first flying lap. This means our lap times are not good enough, whereas in the race, with a full fuel load, we are much better at getting the tyres to work properly."

He added that the push for improvement would start at next weekend's European Grand Prix.

"In Valencia, as I have already said, the main aim will be to qualify better, trying to get as close as possible to the top ten and then let's see what happens, because it's hard to make predictions until Friday practice," Buemi said. "Valencia has not yet delivered a very exciting race, but maybe this year it will be different."

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