Torro Rosso

After starting the season with an interim car, Toro Rosso had scheduled to give their new charge, the STR03, its maiden race appearance at the Turkish Grand Prix in May. The Italian squad, however, have revealed they may now have to delay those plans following Sebastien Bourdais` crash during testing on Wednesday.
The accident at this […]

Renault`s Fernando Alonso was quickest on the third day of testing at Barcelona, however, it was Toro Rosso`s Sebastien Bourdais who attracted all the attention having wrecked the new STR3 just hours after its unveiling.
After a grey morning at the Circuit de Catalunya, the sun burnt through the clouds in the afternoon but it remained […]

p class=”first”>Sebastien Bourdais wrecked Toro Rosso`s new car on its maiden appearance during testing in Spain.
The team are hoping the STR3 will make its full debut at next month`s Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul.
But Frenchman Bourdais, in his debut F1 season, crashed into a barrier at the Circuit de Catalunya on Wednesday.
Toro Rosso boss Franz […]

Toro Rosso have given their new 2008 car, the STR03, its first public outing at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya. After completing a brief shakedown run late on Tuesday, team driver Sebastian Bourdais has been in action throughout Wednesday morning at the Spanish circuit.
The new car made a private track debut earlier this month at the […]

Scuderia Toro Rosso have revealed their new STR3 challenger to the public for the first time during testing at Barcelona on Wednesday.
The new car, which bears a strong resemblance to Red Bull Racing`s RB4, features a similar airbox sharkfin and front wing assembly.
Sebastien Bourdais drove the car and will spend the rest of the day […]

Scuderia Toro Rosso have revealed their new STR3 challenger to the public for the first time during testing at Barcelona on Wednesday.
The new car, which bears a strong resemblance to Red Bull Racing`s RB4, features a similar airbox sharkfin and front wing assembly.
Sebastien Bourdais drove the car and will spend the rest of the day […]

Scuderia Toro Rosso`s new car will complete its first public outing tomorrow in testing at the Barcelona circuit.
The STR3 was already shaken down in a private test at the Vairano circuit in Italy at the end of last month, and will begin its proper testing in a two-day session starting tomorrow.
Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will be […]

Sebastien Bourdais: I did the best I could trying to drive as consistently as possible, making no mistakes. For a while I had a problem with the brakes. On the plus side, I have completed another race distance, feeling fine at the end of it, which is satisfying. But at […]

Sebastien Bourdais - 15th: “I did the best I could trying to drive as consistently as possible, making no mistakes. For a while I had a problem with the brakes. On the plus side, I have completed another race distance, feeling fine at the end of it, which is satisfying. But at the end of […]

Sebastien Bourdais - 15th: “My first time in Q2. We came close before and now we have made it. The cars we are racing against are in similar positions, so we could not really expect much more. I had hoped to be a contender for twelfth if we`d had a perfect qualifying but clearly the […]

Sebastien Bourdais: I got into a good groove this morning with no real problems and we carried on the same way this afternoon. It meant I got quite a bit of running done which is a

Sebastien Bourdais - 9th: “I got into a good groove this morning with no real problems and we carried on the same way this afternoon. It meant I got quite a bit of running done which is a “first” for a Friday this season for me. So, I`m happy about that. This is my first […]

New Zealand teenager Brendon Hartley has confirmed reports that he tested Toro Rosso’s new 2008 car during an intensive three-day shakedown session at Vairano in Italy last week.
With Toro Rosso race drivers Sebastian Vettel and Sebastien Bourdais overseas for the Malaysian and Bahrain Grands Prix, Red Bull junior team member Hartley was called up for […]

Scuderia Toro Rosso have said they may test British Formula Three front-runner Brendon Hartley again, after confirming he had tested the team`s new car at Vairano in Italy last week.
Hartley was drafted in for the shakedown of Toro Rosso`s new STR3 at Vairano in Italy, prior to the car`s first proper run at Barcelona in […]

Following the debut of the 2008 car earlier this week, Toro Rosso is planning to test the STR3 properly for the first time at the upcoming Barcelona test.It is expected that the Ferrari-powered single seater, based on the Adrian Newey penned RB4 model that is already being raced by parent team Red Bull, will make […]

Toro Rosso`s 2008 car, the STR3 that is based on Adrian Newey`s 2008-spec Red Bull single seater, has made its track debut.With race drivers Sebastian Vettel and Sebastien Bourdais overseas for the Malaysian and Bahrain Grand Prix, the task of shaking down the single car fell to Red Bull junior driver Brendon Hartley.Hartley, 18, drove […]

In a surprise announcement made at midnight on this date, veteran driver David Coulthard has informed the media that he intends to take over Red Bull

Formula One is all awash with talk of night races, as the sport gears up for its first after-dark event in Singapore later this year.
Many within the paddock are pretty relaxed about the step into the unknown of racing at night, especially with MotoGP`s own night race at Qatar having been a success.
But one man […]

When the news broke of Red Bull chief Dietrich Mateschitz’s decision to sell his half of Toro Rosso, driver Sebastian Vettel’s bright future was put firmly in the shade by his team’s off-track issues.
He may have recorded two DNFs this year, but at just 20 years-old, Vettel is widely acclaimed as one of the […]

In what is clearly as move to appease Force India (formerly Spyker) in the long running customer car row, the Italian team is said to have made a financial offer to its Indian rival.
Germany`s Auto Motor und Sport reports that Toro Rosso has offered Force India half of its 2008 prize money with the sole […]

Toro Rosso has offered to settle its long running dispute with F1 rival Force India over the controversial use of so-called customer cars.Force India is still pursuing both the Red Bull junior team and Honda satellite Super Aguri in Swiss arbitration court, as the Silverstone-based outfit argues that because its rivals are not traditional constructors, […]

Sebastian Vettel: I started to have difficulty shifting gear and with the power steering. And then the back end caught fire as I pulled over to stop, which can sometimes happen when everything is overheating. Up to that point I was having a reasonable race. In […]

Sebastian Vettel - DNF: “I started to have difficulty shifting gear and with the power steering. And then the back end caught fire as I pulled over to stop, which can sometimes happen when everything is overheating. Up to that point I was having a reasonable race. In the first stint, I had too much […]