08 – Scuderia Toro Rosso

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Stats

• Team Principal: Franz Tost
• Factory: Faenza, Italy
• Website: scuderiatororosso.com
• Drivers: Sebastien Buemi
• F1 Debut: Bahrain 2006
• Championships: 0

Full WCC Results

• 2006 – 9th
• 2007 – 7th
• 2008 – 6th
• 2009 – 10th
• 2010 -

2010 Preview

From the F1 Digest 2010 Season Preview:

For 2010, Toro Rosso were tasked with breaking ties with Red Bull and designing their own brand new car. Well, that was what we thought was going to happen, but from the looks of it, they have taken last year’s Adrian Newey designed STR4 and tweaked it to become the STR5, in much the same manner as Newey himself has tweaked the RB6. Still, at least the livery is a little bit different. They’ve added more red to the nose, hopefully in an attempt to make it more distinctive to the Red Bull out on track. That will help me at least. With more staff in the design department, you might have expected a little bit more than a copycat edition of the nose and incredibly complex front wing. The car has the expected rear shark fin engine cover, and similar sidepods to last year.

Their driver lineup remains as Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari for a little bit of consistency. Alguersuari was confirmed later than Buemi but the pair both seem quite happy and content in their continued roles. Hopefully the Spaniard will be able to improve on his performance from last year now he has had some testing time under his belt – he shocked us all when he reminded us that he hadn’t tested an F1 car yet, despite being in the sport for six months. Buemi can continue to show the promise he displayed last year and build on his experience. So far in pre-season testing, they’ve performed at a mid-field kind of level – as much as you can tell from testing anyway. Toro Rosso were one of the more vocal teams about the disturbance caused by the weather. The intermittant showers made it tricky to get any significant running in or data collected but they were clocking up the miles anyway, so they should be on good form when we get to Bahrain.