All Posts Tagged With: "Scuderia Toro Rosso"
F12009: Scuderia Toro Rosso Preview
The little team from Italy certainly did well in 2008, beating the parent squad and taking a pole position and win along the way. Sebastian Vettel showed he had talent and Sebastien Bourdais had some strong runs in the second car, at times keeping pace with his whipper-snapper team mate. 2008 will almost certainly be [...]
F12009: Red Bull Racing Preview
The 2008 campaign was disappointing for Red Bull Racing to say the least. The car looked reasonably quick at many of the circuits on the calendar but either through accidents or mechanical problems, the team from Milton Keynes could only score 29 points. This was only made worse by the junior team, Scuderia Toro Rosso, [...]
Caption Contest: #82
The eighty-second photograph to feature in BlogF1’s caption contest, and as they say, better late than never! You know the drill, think of something funny and witty to say and leave it as a comment below. Another image from the 2008 archive, here we have hotshot Sebastian Vettel in the Scuderia Toro Rosso garage during [...]
Launches 2009: STR Unveil Car Number Four
While at the Circuit de Catalunya yesterday the Faenza-based Scuderia Toro Rosso team unveiled the fourth car to be built by the team. The STR4 was shown the press ahead of it’s public debut with Sebastien Bourdais. The car had taken part in a private shakedown at the Adria circuit last week, and after 96 [...]
Takuma Sato Rules Himself Out Of Red Bull Role
Takuma Sato today posted a message to the news section of his website informing fans that he is no longer in negotiations with Red Bull Racing or Scuderia Toro Rosso over the possible role as a third driver for either of their teams. Sato had been praised for performing very well during tests after the [...]
Who Will Be Faster In 2009: STR vs. Force India
Scuderia Toro Rosso are yet to receive the blueprints for their 2009 car, but both Sebastien Bourdais and Sebastien Buemi have been putting in some serious mileage in the 2008 post-season tests and also in the pre-2009 sessions. Driving a modified STR3 with less downforce and slick tyres, both drivers have been acclimatising themselves to [...]
Jerez & Bahrain Tests Day Four: Hamilton & Raikkonen Set The Benchmark
With the final day of testing at Jerez and Sakhir over for this week, it is the McLaren and Ferrari that continue to dominate at each circuit respectively. Although Sebastien Bourdais set the fastest lap in Spain this afternoon, the French driver was piloting the modified 2008 chassis while the team wait for the new [...]
Jerez & Bahrain Tests Day Three: Bourdais Quickest & Sand Stops Play, Again
With sand continuing to plague the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain, the only results from today’s testing to show are from Jerez where five teams were working hard prior to the season start in March. Once again, Ferrari, Toyota and BMW were forced to sit in the pitlane and wait for a break in the storm. [...]
