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STR5 – Toro Rosso’s new F1 car

Toro Rosso STR5

Toro Rosso STR5

Toro Rosso STR5

Toro Rosso STR5

The STR5 is Ferrari powered and will be raced by the Italian team’s unchanged driver line-up of Swiss star Sebastien Buemi and Spanish youngster Jaime Alguersuari.

Compared to its predecessor, the STR5’s design has been optimised to make the most of a double diffuser at the rear.

The car is also longer due to its larger fuel tank, a consequence of the ban on refuelling for 2010.

The additional weight of the fuel means suspension and braking have also undergone a major reappraisal.

Toro Rosso STR5

Red Bull to change reserve driver

Red Bull and Toro Rosso are changing their reserve driver for the rest of the Formula 1 season.

Reigning British Formula 3 series champion Jaime Alguersuari replaces Brendon Hartley, who will continue racing in European F3.

Alguersuari, who is 19, will deputise if either team’s first-choice drivers is unable to race.

The Spaniard’s first race as reserve driver will be the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on 12 July.

Red Bull will be keen to keep up their momentum from the most recent race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, where Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber finished first and second, helping the team consolidate second place in the constructors’ championship.

Vettel and Webber lie third and fourth in the drivers’ championship behind Brawn duo Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, while Toro Rosso drivers Sebastian Buemi and Sebastien Bourdais are 14th and 16th respectively.

from bbc

Red Bull will take over Toro Rosso

Red Bull are expected to take full control of Toro Rosso after Gerhard Berger sold them his 50% share of the team.

The deal is not yet completed pending approval by the regulators.

Toro Rosso was supposed to be a development team, but managed to perform better than Red Bull during the 2008 season, with Sebastien Vettel winning the Italian Grand Prix.

Red Bull are hoping that their Mark Webber will be fit to start the 2009 season, after being involved in a bike accident resulting in a broken leg.


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