Scuderia Toro Rosso turns ten years

Published on 19 January 2015 by Niels Hendrix

2015 is a special season for Scuderia Toro Rosso, because they have reached the significant landmark of a decade of competition in Formula 1. Naturally, the team hopes to celebrate this important anniversary with a strong showing in this year’s world championship and is also marking the occasion with a special logo that you will be seeing a lot more of this year.

Since those early days in 2006, when Red Bull decided to set-up a feeder team to provide seats for the best drivers to come out of its Young Driver Programme, the team has grown considerably. Indeed, including the 2015 season, Toro Rosso has provided cars for a total of eleven drivers, the majority making their Formula 1 debuts with STR. And they weren’t fussy about where they came from; three continents in fact, America, Europe and Australia.

The Toro Rosso drivers have covered a total of 83,034 racing kilometres, the equivalent of two laps of the circumference of planet earth! STR ranks 20th in the all-time total distance for constructors, just one place behind Red Bull Racing. STR is also right behind its sister team when it comes to race laps. Their drivers have rattled off 16,491 of them, putting STR 19th overall.

Powering their Toro Rosso cars have been three different engine configurations - V10, V8 and now V6 - from three different engine manufacturers. STR has also used up a lot of rubber from three different tyre companies.

The figures that really matter, those for points and wins are those Toro Rosso will be chasing again in 2015, starting in a few weeks’ time in Melbourne.