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Tech Talk: View from the wall Jun 10, 2011
Toro Rosso race engineer Andrea Landi gives us his opinions on the most strategically minded and technical F1 season in recent memory...
Seat of Learning Feb 16, 2010
As Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari head back down to Jerez for the third test session of the winter, the reserve drivers the team shares with Red Bull Racing sneaked into the Faenza factory for...
Toro get technical Feb 2, 2010
Scuderia Toro Rosso's Chief Designer Ben Butler and Technical Director Giorgio Ascanelli have taken time out of their busy testing schedules in Valencia to shed more light on their latest F1 car and...
Five Stars for STR5 Feb 1, 2010
The STR Breaks Cover Feb 1, 2010
Jaime and STR5 raring to go Feb 1, 2010
As Scuderia Toro Rosso unveil their new car for the 2010 Formula 1 season, Jaime Alguersuari reveals his desire to get behind the wheel for a drive
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About Scuderia Toro Rosso
This will be the sixth year that Scuderia Toro Rosso competes in the Formula 1 World Championship, since the team was created with a view to finding two extra cockpits for the stars of the future coming through the ranks of the Red Bull Junior Driver Programme.
Six years down the road, that is very much the team’s raison d’être, with Sebastien Buemi still among the youngest men on the grid, while his team-mate, Jaime Alguersuari only turns 21 a few days before the second Grand Prix of this season.
Still on the school front, the team tutored a third driver in the cockpit at most of the races, as Red Bull junior, Daniel Ricciardo was the team's “Friday driver,” standing in for one of our drivers in turn for Free Practice 1. Why are we so keen on this teaching role? Maybe the words Sebastian Vettel, World Champion are explanation enough.
At the 2005 Belgian Grand Prix, Red Bull announced that in partnership with Gerhard Berger, they were to buy the Minardi Formula One team from Australian entrepreneur Paul Stoddart. The team was renamed Scuderia Toro Rosso. Based in Faenza, Italy the team is the junior Red Bull entrant in the F1 World Championship. It has a remit to foster young talent from the Red Bull Junior programme, and has given F1 race debuts to many young drivers. In 2008, one of those former juniors, Sebastian Vettel, handed the team their maiden F1 victory at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, a feat that eluded Minardi despite 22 years of competing in F1.
