After three of years of listening to McLaren bitch about their bad luck with Honda engines, Toro Rosso figured that they could work with the Japanese manufacturer to make their car successful. We all called them crazy when the Red Bull junior team paired with Honda for 2018, but in only the team’s second race with the…
Toro Rosso, the development team for Formula One’s Red Bull Racing, has a beautiful race car these days despite it hanging around out of sight near the back of the field most of the time. But looks can be deceiving, and this poor, pretty soul has the plague of a Honda F1 engine in it this year.
The prophecy that has been foretold (and very poorly kept as a secret) has been fulfilled. One highly talented Le Mans winner, Brendon Hartley, and one promising 2016 GP2 champ, Pierre Gasly, shall be Toro Rosso’s sacrifices to the Honda power unit demons. All hail the dark lord of engine woe!
Remember all of the rumors that current Porsche 919 driver Brendon Hartley was going to Chip Ganassi’s IndyCar team after Porsche shuttered its Le Mans prototype team after this year? Turns out, they were legit—so much so, that the Toro Rosso Formula One team had to negotiate Hartley out of an existing contract to…
After scoring a point in his surprise comeback United States Grand Prix drive for Toro Rosso, Daniil “the Torpedo” Kvyat is officially no longer driving for either of Red Bull’s Formula One teams, Autosport reports. Kvyat was told that he would no longer be driving for the team after last weekend’s race, Toro Rosso…
Toro Rosso has swapped its drivers around so much at this point in the 2017 Formula One season that Brendon Hartley is being penalized for an engine swap on Daniil Kvyat’s old car. But Daniil Kvyat isn’t considered to be driving his old car, even though his number is running this weekend on Toro Rosso’s other car.
Sadly, 2016 GP2 champion Pierre Gasly—the driver replacing Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso for the rest of the Formula One season—won’t be racing anything this weekend. Gasly missed the F1 United States Grand Prix to wrap up his Super Formula season in Suzuka, but NBC Sports reports that the Suzuka race was canceled due to…
Toro Rosso stand-in driver Brendon Hartley can’t seem to catch a break in his first Formula One drive in five years. First, changes to the car’s power unit triggered enough grid penalties to move him to the rear of the field at the start of the race, NBC Sports reports. Worse yet, his helmet wouldn’t stay put during…
Red Bull’s Formula One B-team Toro Rosso appeared to win the stand-in jackpot when reigning Le Mans winner Brendon Hartley was available to drive for them at the United States Grand Prix. Only catch is, it’s been five years since he’s even driven a single-seater, much less a Formula One car.
After Formula One pulled off the deal of the century to allow McLaren to swap its busted Honda engines for Renault ones, Toro Rosso’s standout driver Carlos Sainz Jr. will leave the team for Renault early, starting with the United States Grand Prix. So, naturally, Toro Rosso gets a Le Mans champ to fill in. Rad.
Formula One driver and occasional Russian crash missile Daniil Kvyat has finally been moved aside on Red Bull’s b-team Scuderia Toro Rosso, reports Autosport. Red Bull junior driver and 2016 GP2 champion Pierre Gasly will be taking Kvyat’s place at Toro Rosso for most of the rest of the season as a try-out for next…
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Standout Toro Rosso driver (which isn’t hard to do alongside Daniil Kvyat) Carlos Sainz Jr. will be loaned out to Renault for 2018, the team confirmed today. Sainz’s loan to Renault is widely believed to be the deal that let Toro Rosso end their power unit supply contract with Renault early, so naturally, it was…
For the past three years, Honda has been like the scumbag boyfriend of Formula One. Oooooooh, girllllllll. You’re still with him? He always promises to do so much, but like, never does it. I can’t believe you haven’t kicked his lazy butt to the curb yet! Good news, everyone: McLaren finally announced their split from…
While McLaren still hasn’t announced anything to the public yet, multiple sources are confirming that their divorce from Formula One engine supplier Honda has been finalized. McLaren will run Renault engines next year, per Sky Sports, and plans to announce it during the Singapore Grand Prix race weekend.
McLaren may have finally found a way out of its bum Formula One engine deal with Honda, but it’s probably coming at the expense of Toro Rosso, according to multiple reports. Toro Rosso and McLaren will swap engine suppliers, but Toro Rosso’s best driver Carlos Sainz Jr. will be moving to Renault as a result.
Honda just can’t find another willing guinea pig for its genuinely abysmal Formula One engine. The latest “thanks, but no thanks” comes from Red Bull’s de-facto feeder squad Scuderia Toro Rosso, reports Motorsport.com. This is after a deal with Sauber fell through, and pervasive reports that McLaren wants anyone …
In pre-race scrutineering for the Formula One British Grand Prix, FIA scrutineers deemed the Carlos Sainz Jr.’s No. 55 Scuderia Toro Rosso race car unsafe over what they say is an damaged wheel tether, reports Motorsport.com. Per a tweet by F1 journo Chris Medland, Toro Rosso says the part came like that.
Formula One’s pit crews are some of the most trained, synchronized and fascinating teams in any sport. There are so many people, all working with millimeter precision to get a set of tires off a car and a new set on in give or take two seconds. And here’s a crew member I’ve never seen before: valve person.
