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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 difficult to repeat, but that doesn’t mean Scuderia Toro Rosso cannot do well and continue to impress. Continue Reading

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 laps on Monday, Bourdais finished in a respectable sixth. The car continues the Red Bull livery and will be driven by Sebastiens Bourdais and Buemi. Continue Reading

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 how the new car may handle, and combined with Takuma Sato’s tests, the team have certainly been collecting a lot of information. Continue Reading

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 RB5 to be delivered. The sand finally cleared in Bahrain to allow Ferrari, Toyota and BMW to get some running in, and the times set between the three cars on track were all relatively close. Lewis Hamilton proved to be the quicker of the 2009 chassis on track at Jerez. Continue Reading

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. Alas, the sand continued to blow all day and the only running allowed in Bahrain was one single installation lap. In Spain, Sebastien Bourdais led the tables in his 2008 Scuderia Toro Rosso. Continue Reading

Sebastien Bourdais was this morning confirmed as a Scuderia Toro Rosso driver for the 2009 season. After a long wait and much speculation about the French drivers future in Formula One, team bosses decided the four-times Champ Car champion would be the best option to partner rookie pilot Sebastien Buemi. Both drivers had been taking part in testing duties along with Takuma Sato, who was until today also in contention for the drive. Continue Reading

Scuderia Toro Rosso have announced that all three main hopefuls for the two race seats in their team will take part in next week’s test at the Spanish circuit, Jerez. This will be the third time Takuma Sato will have spent some time in the car, the unemployed Japanese driver having previously tested for the squad in September and November. Sebastien Bourdais will continue to fight for his chance to spend a second season with STR while the perhaps favourite, Red Bull Racing test driver Sebastien Buemi, will also join the group. Continue Reading

Now that all three Scuderia Toro Rosso hopefuls have shown their worth in one of the Red Bull-descended cars, the little team with big results already in their pocket have to make a decision; Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastien Buemi and Takuma Sato are all looking for race seats, and STR have two vacancies. Also in the wings and not completely out of the picture are Rubens Barrichello, Bruno Senna and Lucas Di Grassi. Who deserves the race seats at the Red Bull junior squad? Continue Reading

Following his tangle with Felipe Massa during the closing stages of the Japanese Grand Prix, Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Bourdais has been given a 25s penalty. This added time demotes the Frenchman from sixth to tenth, therefore promoting team mate Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa, Mark Webber and Nick Heidfeld up the finishing order. The extra point will help Massa in his bid to claim the driver’s title, and the lost points will hurt both Bourdais and his team. Continue Reading

The fifty-fifth photograph to feature in BlogF1’s caption contest. You know the drill, think of something funny and witty to say and leave it as a comment below. Here we have three of the four Red Bull drivers; David Coulthard and Mark Webber from the senior squad and Sebastien Bourdais from Scuderia Toro Rosso. But what on earth could they possibly be discussing in the Belgian pit garage? Continue Reading