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192-409: A "works" or "factory" team (i.e. the official team of the company producing the cars, as opposed to a customer team which buys them off the shelf) therefore applied to chassis in the same way as it does in rallying and sports car racing . There have been some recent exceptions where a specialist company, not itself entered in the championship, has been commissioned to design and build a chassis for
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384-634: A Toro Rosso at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix . Minardi had competed in Formula One from 1985 to 2005. Despite having a large fan base, it had been one of the least competitive teams in the sport, never achieving a podium finish and only finishing as high as fourth in three races. Minardi owner Paul Stoddart claimed to have had 41 approaches to buy the team, but preferred to sell it to someone who could 'take it further' than he could and who would maintain it in its traditional base in Italy. Included in
480-546: A career-best seventh and Buemi tenth. In Singapore , Buemi finished 12th and Alguersuari was classified 21st after crashing in the closing stages. At the Japanese Grand Prix , Alguersuari finished in fifteenth position, while Buemi retired with a loose tyre. The Korean Grand Prix saw the team qualify in eleventh and thirteenth places. Due to their car 's high straight-line speed, Buemi picked up points with ninth, while Alguersuari overtook Rosberg's Mercedes on
576-472: A constructor with 248, the most pole positions with 253, the most points with 10256, and the most podiums with 826. Ferrari has also entered more Grands Prix than any other constructor with 1098 entries and also maintains the record for the most Grand Prix starts with 1096. The most recent constructor to make their debut was RB , which debuted at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix . In Formula One racing
672-660: A customer chassis. Vettel beat second-place Heikki Kovalainen by 12 seconds. Vettel was at it again in the next race, the Singapore Grand Prix , Formula One's first ever night race. Vettel qualified 7th and finished the race in 5th, while Bourdais could only manage 12th. At the next race in Japan , Vettel again showed his class finishing 6th. Bourdais, meanwhile, was doing well, until Felipe Massa , who had been running in 8th, tried to overtake Bourdais. Massa had climbed up to 8th place after having dropped down to 13th as
768-505: A drive-through penalty in that race. At the next race in Monaco Buemi finished 11th and Alguersuari 12th, the last two runners at the end of the race. However, when Michael Schumacher received a 20-second penalty for a last turn overtake against Fernando Alonso , Buemi was moved up to tenth, scoring a point. Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari were confirmed as drivers of the team's STR6 for 2011, Daniel Ricciardo would be
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960-634: A power unit failure in his car, which has been a common occurrence in Renault powered cars at that point in the season. Meanwhile, Kvyat finished 10th and scored 1 point but was ultimately a lap down from the race winner. At the Bahrain Grand Prix , both Vergne and Kvyat qualified well down the field in 13th and 14th; Kvyat finished 11th while Vergne retired due to a collision. At the next race in China , Vergne qualified 9th and Kvyat 13th, but Kvyat
1056-501: A race; during this season Renault became the last team to have entered three cars for a race at the 1985 German Grand Prix , but only two of their cars were eligible for championship points. Unlike drivers who are required to compete in the FIA Formula One World Championship under the nationality of their passport and in case of a multiple citizenship they can choose their "official" nationality,
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1248-401: A requirement that each competitor must have the exclusive rights to the use of certain key parts of their car; in 2018 , these parts were the survival cell, the front impact structure, the roll structures and bodywork. Ferrari holds the record for the most Constructors' and Drivers' Championships won with sixteen and fifteen, respectively. Ferrari also holds the record for the most wins by
1344-426: A result of his drive-through and his first pit-stop. Just after Bourdais left the pitlane after making his final stop, Massa attempted to pass him and the two cars collided at the first corner. Massa spun, but rejoined the track and eventually finished 8th. Bourdais finished the race in 6th place, but had 25 seconds added to his overall time as penalty for the incident, dropping him down to 10th place. This ultimately had
1440-498: A seat with the team. In Belgium, Kvyat qualified 11th and Vergne qualified 12th, with Kvyat collecting 2 points after finishing 9th, while Vergne just missed out on the final points position, in 11th. At the team's home race in Italy , Kvyat once again outqualified Vergne, starting 11th to Vergne's 13th. Both drivers finished the race in the same position in which they started. At the Singapore Grand Prix , Kvyat lined up 10th while Vergne
1536-421: A single race was not strictly limited in the 1950s and early 1960s. Since the 1963 season teams were generally allowed to enter only two regular cars, with the third car reserved for an occasional driver. This rule was further promoted in the 1974 season when the permanent racing numbers were assigned to each team in pairs, with the third car having the racing number out of the pair. Entering more than three cars
1632-700: A strong 7th position in qualifying while teammate Vergne started 10th with a mistake in Q3 ruining his chancing of improving on his previous time. In the race, Ricciardo picked up more points with 7th to take 13th place in the Drivers' Championship from Vergne who retired on lap 14. Toro Rosso signed a long-term agreement with Renault to use their same-spec engines as it was used by Red Bull Racing , Lotus and Caterham teams from 2014. Unlike its sister team that usually received engines free of charge due to full-works partner basis, Toro Rosso's engine supply deal with Renault
1728-667: A team, e.g. Lola built cars for the Larrousse team ( 1987 - 1991 ) and the Scuderia Italia team ( 1993 ) and Dallara built cars for the Scuderia Italia team ( 1988 - 1992 ). Larousse had their points from the 1990 season erased after the FIA decided that they had falsely nominated themselves and not Lola as the chassis constructor. In 1978 , the new Arrows team which had been established by former Shadow personnel
1824-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso SpA ( Italian pronunciation: [skudeˈriːa ˈtɔːro ˈrosso] ; Toro Rosso lit. ' Red Bull ' ), commonly known as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR , was an Italian Formula One constructor . It was one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian conglomerate company Red Bull ,
1920-473: The 1968 season the team's nationality also determined the colour of a car entered by the team; thus, Italian teams' cars were rosso corsa red, French were bleu de France blue, and British (with several exceptions, such as cars entered by teams Rob Walker , Brabham and McLaren ) were British racing green . Since the licence is given to a team and not to a constructor, privateer teams entering cars built by constructors from another country before
2016-548: The 1981 season the FIA have required that Formula One entrants own the intellectual rights to the chassis that they enter, and so the distinction between the terms "entrant" and "constructor", and hence also "team", have become less pronounced, though the intellectual rights of engines may still be owned by a different entity. That season also saw the International Cup for Formula One Constructors be officially renamed to
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#17327721218812112-429: The 1997 German Grand Prix Benetton became the only team to have achieved victories while racing under two different nationalities. The team's nationality, determined by a racing licence that a team holds, subsequently determines a national anthem played after a race on the podium in honour of a winning team following a national anthem played in honour of a winning driver. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in
2208-570: The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix and 2009 Chinese Grand Prix respectively. Note: Until 1965 a works team of every constructor was licensed in the country where it was really based. In 1965 Japanese-licensed Honda moved their works team from Tokyo, Japan to Amsterdam, Netherlands, followed in 1966 by the American-licensed Anglo American Racers team which was based in Rye, East Sussex, United Kingdom. Since
2304-492: The 2013 Belgian Grand Prix , both cars went out in Q1, starting 18th and 19th—the team's worst qualifying performance of the year. However, Ricciardo bounced back to take 10th and looked set for a move to Red Bull in 2014. Vergne came 12th for the second race in a row. Before the following race in Italy it was announced that Ricciardo would replace Webber at Red Bull for the 2014 season. Ricciardo impressed his future employers with
2400-552: The 2013 British Grand Prix and Kvyat qualifying 8th. The drivers finished the race 8th and 9th respectively to score Toro Rosso's first points of the season, and his result, Kvyat had broken Sebastian Vettel 's record as the youngest points scorer in Formula One history. At the Malaysian Grand Prix , Vergne qualified 9th while Kvyat qualified 11th. The race was going well for them until on lap 18, Vergne suffered
2496-482: The 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix , there have been 172 Formula One constructors who have raced at least one of the 1,123 FIA World Championship races since the first such event, the 1950 British Grand Prix . Constructors are people or corporate entities which design key parts of Formula One cars that have competed or are intended to compete in the FIA World Championship . Since 1981 , it has been
2592-648: The British National Sporting Authority . Teams take the nationality of their parent National Automobile Club that issued their licence for the period of validity of that licence and the change of the nationality is allowed. Several teams changed their nationality during their competition in Formula One, some of them even twice (e.g. Shadow in 1976 from American to British, Benetton in 1996 from British to Italian, Red Bull in 2007 from British to Austrian, Renault in 2011 from French to British and in 2016 back to French ). At
2688-514: The Chinese Grand Prix however, Ricciardo's fortunes turned around as he managed to finish in a career best 7th place while Vergne could only finish 12th. At the Bahrain Grand Prix , Vergne suffered a puncture and had to retire from the race and Ricciardo finished 16th and ultimately a lap down. In Spain , Ricciardo managed to score another point via a 10th place but still a lap down while Vergne collided and ultimately had to retire from
2784-494: The European Grand Prix , Speed was dropped under controversial circumstances and was replaced by BMW Sauber development driver Sebastian Vettel who was later confirmed for 2008 . At the Chinese Grand Prix , Toro Rosso scored their best results, with Vettel finishing fourth and Vitantonio Liuzzi sixth, scoring eight points for the team. These were also the drivers' best finishes in Formula One to that point. It
2880-512: The F1 World Championship season is held, consisting of a series of races, known as Grands Prix , held usually on purpose-built circuits , and in a few cases on closed city streets . Constructors are awarded points based on the finishing position of each of their two drivers at each Grand Prix, and the constructor who accumulates the most points over each championship is crowned that year's World Constructors' Champion . As of
2976-777: The FIA or race organisers, e.g. Wolf holding the Canadian nationality and Shadow (in 1973 ) and Penske both holding the American nationality all identified as the British teams by official entry lists, or the British national anthem played on the podium in honour of the Irish-licensed Jordan team and the Austrian-licensed Red Bull team when they achieved their maiden victories at
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3072-608: The GP3 Series champion. Fortunes improved significantly for Kvyat as he qualified 5th for his home race in Russia , while Vergne qualified 10th. Both drivers finished outside the points, with Vergne 13th and Kvyat 14th. At the United States Grand Prix , Kvyat qualified 14th and Vergne was just behind in 15th. In the race, Vergne finished 10th while Kvyat finished a lap down, in 15th. At the penultimate race of
3168-543: The Tyrrell team ran their chassis powered by both Ford and Renault engines, scored points with both engines and thus finishing 9th as Tyrrell-Ford and 10th as Tyrrell-Renault in the World Constructors' Championship. Under article 6.2 of the FIA sporting regulations, "The title of Formula One World Champion Constructor will be awarded to the competitor which has scored the highest number of points". From
3264-542: The World Constructors' Championship . Before this time, constructors were free to sell their chassis to as many other teams as they liked. Brabham and Lotus chassis were used extensively by other teams during the 1960s and 1970s and several quite competitive privateer teams never built their own chassis. Rob Walker Racing Team was the most successful example, being responsible for the first victories in Formula One for both Cooper and Lotus. The concept of
3360-646: The works team of respective constructor was licensed; Races Entered = Number of individual races entered; Races Started = Number of individual races started; Drivers = Number of drivers ; Total Entries = Total number of race entries; Wins = Number of races won; Points = Number of Constructors' Championship points scored; Poles = Number of pole positions ; FL = Number of fastest laps ; Podiums . = Number of podium finishes; WCC = Constructors' Championships won; WDC = Drivers' Championships won. The following are constructors whose only participation
3456-562: The 1968 season painted cars in the national colour of their home country, e.g. the French Guy Ligier 's privateer team entered cars painted in bleu de France blue in 1966 and 1967 seasons despite the fact that they were built by the British constructor Cooper . Relating to the team's nationality because of teams' bases in Britain several mistakes occurred on official entry lists issued by or podium ceremonies organized by
3552-602: The 1981 Spanish Grand Prix the Equipe Banco Occidental team became the last privateer team to have entered a car for a race alongside a works team when they entered a Williams car alongside the Williams works team. During the period of the 1950 – 1981 seasons, privateer teams won 20 World Championship races in total. Only once (the Matra International team in 1969 ) a privateer team helped
3648-557: The 2005 Red Bull Racing RB1. Some teams felt that this infringed the Concorde Agreement as each team is expected to design their own car. Toro Rosso claim that this design was originally produced during 2004 by Jaguar Racing , Red Bull's predecessor, and that the intellectual rights had belonged to the Ford Motor Company , Jaguar Racing's parent company, with Toro Rosso inheriting the rights after Jaguar Racing
3744-702: The 2015 season. At the Australian Grand Prix , Sainz qualified 8th while his teammate Max Verstappen qualified 12th. Sainz finished ninth and collected two points on his début while Verstappen retired due to his car suffering an engine failure. During the 2015 season, Toro Rosso enjoyed unexpected success on the grid; the break-out of Max Verstappen combined with many points finishes along with two 4th places, both by Verstappen, ensured that Toro Rosso enjoyed their most successful season in Formula One based on points. Verstappen scored 49 points while his teammate Carlos Sainz Jr managed to score 18 points. At
3840-469: The Constructors' Championship. The team pulled off a massive shock at the wet Italian Grand Prix , with Vettel claiming a first pole position and the first win for both himself and the team. This was the first win by a team based in Italy other than Ferrari since the 1957 German Grand Prix , which was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a Maserati and also the first and only win for a Ferrari engine in
3936-616: The FIA Sporting Regulations, "A constructor is the person (including any corporate or unincorporated body) which designs the Listed Parts set out in Appendix 6. The make of an engine or chassis is the name attributed to it by its constructor." These "listed parts" include the survival cell, the front impact structure, the roll structures and bodywork. However, if the chassis and engine are made by different entities,
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4032-525: The FIA permitted them only 300 rpm. For the 2007 season, Toro Rosso began using the 2006-specification Ferrari 056 V8 engine rather than 2007 works spec due to cost reasons, taking over the contract that their senior team broke from by switching to customer Renault power. At the launch of the STR2 on 13 February, Toro Rosso confirmed Liuzzi as a 2007 driver. In testing in Bahrain on 24 February, Scott Speed
4128-473: The FIA's International Sporting Code states that teams competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship shall compete under the nationality of their parent National Automobile Club that issued their FIA racing licence. On the basis of this regulation, despite the fact that most current teams are based in the UK, this country is officially represented in Formula One only by teams holding a racing licence issued by
4224-667: The French sports-paper L'Equipe as being interested in replacing Bourdais. It had been stated that Loeb would not be available to race in F1 until after the end of the WRC season. He would've been available to make his F1 début at the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November. However, this was not to be as the FIA denied him a super licence which is required to drive in Formula One. The season ended with Toro Rosso finishing in tenth and last place in
4320-657: The Minardi name, but were unsuccessful. Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed were the 2006 race drivers of the STR1 , with Neel Jani filling the test/third driver role. Liuzzi had raced part-time for Red Bull Racing in 2005, while Speed entered F1 following the Red Bull Driver Search in the United States. Jani was the test driver for Sauber Petronas in 2004. The 2006 chassis was a modified version of
4416-552: The Toro Rosso team up for sale in March 2008. He aimed to secure a buyer by the end of 2009 , while the team continued in its present guise until then. Scuderia Toro Rosso's drivers for 2008 were Sebastian Vettel and Sébastien Bourdais . The team continue to utilize 2007-spec Ferrari engines in 2008. Bourdais earned his first career points with a 7th-place finish at the Australian Grand Prix . Vettel scored his first points of
4512-672: The V8 normally-aspirated era. On 4 January 2016 it was announced that Toro Rosso would adopt a longer wheelbase for the all-new STR11 car due to the Ferrari 060 power unit and gearbox requiring a spacer to accommodate the MGU-K at the rear of the engine (similar to the Marussia MR03 which had a longer wheelbase: about 3,700 millimetres (150 in)). After a controversial crash in Russia, Kvyat
4608-615: The championship after being overtaken by Force India after their podium finish in Belgium. However, Toro Rosso's form picked up towards the end of the season with Sébastien Buemi scoring points in the final two races. However, Jaime Alguersuari failed to score any points in the season. Scuderia Toro Rosso confirmed that they would keep Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari , in the hope of achieving better results. On 10 November 2009, Toro Rosso announced that Sébastien Buemi would continue to race for them in 2010. No official announcement of
4704-475: The championship, and was running in this position when he was overtaken by Vettel with two laps remaining. Unable to keep up, Hamilton dropped back, and only took the title when he and Vettel both overtook Timo Glock on the final lap. In the end, Vettel scored 35 of the team's 39 points, and in doing so, helped Toro Rosso to actually outperform their senior Red Bull team for the first and only time in team history. With Vettel moving to Red Bull Racing replacing
4800-503: The conclusion of the season, and that Kvyat would be promoted to the senior team – giving Vergne a renewed chance to fight for his seat with Toro Rosso for the remainder of the season. Among the candidates being considered for the second seat were Vergne, as well as Red Bull Junior Team drivers Carlos Sainz Jr. and Pierre Gasly – who finished first and second in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series – and Alex Lynn ,
4896-406: The constructor comprises both (e.g. McLaren - Mercedes , Lotus - Climax etc.), with the name of the chassis constructor being placed before that of the engine constructor. As both chassis and engine are included in the constructor name, chassis run with different engines are counted as two separate constructors and score points separately. This occurred for the last time in the 1985 season when
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#17327721218814992-511: The cost of sourcing a new supply of V8 engines as required by the 2006 regulations . The continuation of this arrangement after the Red Bull takeover caused friction with other teams, in particular Super Aguri and Midland who felt that the engine conferred too much of an advantage. They contended that the concession to allow the team use a V10 engine was based on Minardi's poor financial situation, and should not have continued to apply after
5088-944: The early 2000s most teams have been based in the United Kingdom, and either licensed there or in another country, with the rest based in Italy (Maranello and Faenza) and Switzerland (Hinwil). Key: Licensed in = Country in which the works team of respective constructor is licensed; Races Entered = Number of individual races entered; Races Started = Number of individual races started; Drivers = Number of drivers ; Total Entries = Total number of race entries; Wins = Number of races won; Points = Number of World Constructors' Championship points scored; Poles = Number of pole positions ; FL = Number of fastest laps ; Podiums = Number of podium finishes; WCC = World Constructors' Championships won; WDC = World Drivers' Championships won. Key: Licensed in = Country in which
5184-493: The effect of promoting Massa to 7th place, and giving him an extra championship point. It was a controversial penalty, and Bourdais was adamant that he was not to blame. Vettel's performances earned him a place at the senior Red Bull team for 2009. However, his final drive for Toro Rosso saw him almost play a crucial role in the world championship decider in Brazil . In mixed conditions, Lewis Hamilton needed 5th place to clinch
5280-547: The end of the 2015 season, after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix , it was announced that Toro Rosso would be reviving their customer partnership with Ferrari for the 2016 season, The only difference this time was that Toro Rosso would be provided with 2015 power units, as opposed to up-to-date 2016 power units used in previous seasons but without any direct factory support from Ferrari despite the partnership. Toro Rosso used Ferrari engines from 2007 through 2013 during
5376-455: The final lap to take the team's best race result in 2011, of seventh place. Alguersuari added an eighth place in India , while Buemi retired. In Abu Dhabi , Alguersuari again finished down in fifteenth; meanwhile Buemi had his third retirement in four races. Both drivers finished outside the points at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix in eleventh and twelfth places. On 14 December 2011, it
5472-402: The grid, which he converted into an 8th-place finish in the race. Vergne retired after suffering a puncture 35 laps in while running in the points. Ricciardo continued his form into Germany where he qualified 6th with teammate Vergne struggling in 16th. Ricciardo just missed out on points in 12th while Vergne retired on lap 22. In Hungary both cars were out of the points and in qualifying for
5568-432: The inaugural season of the World Constructors' Championship in 1958 up until the 1978 season only the highest-scoring driver in each race for each constructor contributed points towards the World Constructors' Championship (then officially as the International Cup for Formula One Constructors ); since the 1979 season points from all cars entered by each constructor have counted towards their championship total. Since
5664-471: The newly vacated ones. Between 1996 and 2013 the numbers were based on the teams' finishing positions in the Constructors' Championship from the previous season, with numbers 1 and 2 assigned to the defending champion and his teammate. During the period of 1974–1995 Tyrrell was the only team to keep the same numbers (3 and 4) every season. Since 2014 , racing numbers have been assigned to drivers instead of teams. The number of cars entered by one team into
5760-415: The other being Red Bull Racing . Toro Rosso functioned as a junior team to Red Bull Racing, with the aim of developing the skills of promising drivers for the senior team. The constructor made its racing début in the 2006 season, moving to complete independence from its sister team in 2010 . The team changed its name to Scuderia AlphaTauri in 2020 to promote parent company Red Bull's fashion label of
5856-601: The points in Germany , but both drivers picked up points in Hungary ; Buemi came from 23rd on the grid to finish eighth while Alguersuari added another point to his tally with tenth place. At the Belgian Grand Prix , Alguersuari qualified sixth, but retired on the first lap after contact with Bruno Senna . Buemi also retired after contact with Sergio Pérez . Both drivers picked up points at Monza , with Alguersuari
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#17327721218815952-495: The points until the 12th race of the season, the Belgian Grand Prix. On 6 September 2012, it was announced that James Key had joined the team as Technical Director, replacing Giorgio Ascanelli. Despite some better results in the final races, Toro Rosso suffered a poor season which saw the team finish in ninth place in the Constructors' Championship, only ahead of Caterham, Marussia and HRT. On 31 October 2012, it
6048-482: The race in sixth place picking up 8 points, Toro Rosso's best result since the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix . Red Bull driver Mark Webber announced he was to retire from Formula One at the end of the season, leaving a vacant seat at Toro Rosso's sister team. Both drivers were in the hunt for a drive with the most dominant team in Formula One at the time. At the next race in Britain , Daniel Ricciardo qualified 5th place on
6144-428: The race's only retirement and Buemi finished way down the field. Turkey saw Buemi finishing ninth while Spain was another bad race for the team with Alguersuari again failing to score. Monaco saw Buemi in the points in tenth, ahead of Nico Rosberg whilst Alguersuari crashed out along with Vitaly Petrov in an incident that brought out the red flag to the race. In Canada , Alguersuari finished eighth, helped out by
6240-546: The race, after his car caught fire. At the Hungarian Grand Prix , Vergne qualified 8th and Kvyat qualified 11th, with Vergne picking up 2 points for 9th position. Kvyat finished 14th, a lap down from race winner Daniel Ricciardo . One week prior to the Belgian Grand Prix , Toro Rosso announced the signing of then 16-year-old Max Verstappen to replace Vergne at the conclusion of the 2014 season to be partnered with Kvyat – meaning that Vergne would be without
6336-478: The race. In Monaco , fortunes turned around for Vergne as he managed to finish an impressive 8th and score 4 points while Ricciardo, like his teammate in Spain, suffered a collision and had to retire from the race. The Canadian Grand Prix saw the team take their best qualifying result since the 2011 Chinese Grand Prix , with Vergne qualifying seventh and Ricciardo tenth on the grid in wet conditions. Vergne finished
6432-409: The retired David Coulthard , Sébastien Buemi and Sébastien Bourdais led the team's assault in the 2009 World Championship. After the previous year's success, several drivers wanted to drive for Toro Rosso, including Takuma Sato (who even did three tests with the team) and Bruno Senna . Toro Rosso unveiled their new car last of all the teams taking part in the 2009 season, on 9 March 2009. Before
6528-485: The retirements of Adrian Sutil , Nick Heidfeld and Paul di Resta . Buemi also finished in tenth for the team's first double score since the 2009 Australian Grand Prix when Buemi was seventh ahead of Sébastien Bourdais . In the British Grand Prix , Alguersuari scored a point with a tenth-place finish while Buemi collided with di Resta, which forced his retirement from the race. Neither driver finished in
6624-516: The same name. The team was established after Paul Stoddart sold his remaining interest in the Minardi team at the end of 2005 to Red Bull's owner, Dietrich Mateschitz , and Minardi was renamed Toro Rosso. Mateschitz subsequently struck a 50/50 joint-ownership deal with former Formula One driver Gerhard Berger before the start of the season. In late November 2008, Red Bull regained total ownership of Toro Rosso after buying back Berger's share of
6720-759: The season in Brazil , Kvyat qualified 14th while Vergne was 16th; neither car finished in the points, with Kvyat 11th and Vergne 13th and both drivers were a lap down. At the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi , Kvyat matched his best qualifying position with 5th place, while Vergne was in 10th. Again, both cars failed to finish in the points; Kvyat retired due to a power unit failure while Vergne finished 12th. In 2014, Toro Rosso scored 30 points; Vergne scored 22 points while Kvyat scored 8. On 26 November 2014, Jean-Éric Vergne announced he would be leaving Toro Rosso after 3 seasons, and two days later, Toro Rosso confirmed that Carlos Sainz Jr. would partner Max Verstappen for
6816-462: The season started, the team's boss Franz Tost said that it would be "difficult" to do as well as they did in the 2008 season. On 16 July 2009, the team announced that Sébastien Bourdais ' contract was to be terminated with immediate effect due to disappointing results. On 20 July 2009, the team announced that Jaime Alguersuari would replace him as official driver for the rest of the season. Multiple WRC Champion Sébastien Loeb had been quoted in
6912-588: The season with a 5th-place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix . The team showed steady improvement throughout the season, leading up to a solid performance at the Belgian Grand Prix which saw both cars running in the top six for most of the race, and with Bourdais and Vettel running 3rd and 4th respectively on the final lap until cars on tyres better suited to the extreme wet conditions passed them, demoting Vettel to 5th and Bourdais to 7th. The double points finish moved STR above Honda and level with Williams in
7008-502: The second driver had been made up to then, however Jaime Alguersuari was reported to take the second race seat, as published on 26 November 2009. On 22 January 2010, the team confirmed the signing of Alguersuari, and he scored the first points of his career by finishing ninth under the new points system at the Malaysian Grand Prix . He finished tenth in Spain scoring a point thanks to Lewis Hamilton's penultimate lap crash. He also received
7104-534: The team achieved a completely different financial footing. For tyre suppliers, Toro Rosso was reunited with Michelin tyres who had last supplied Faenza-based Minardi in the 2001 and 2002 seasons. As the season progressed, the Toro Rossos began to struggle in qualifying as their competitors developed their new V8 engines to rev closer to 20,000 rpm to get more power. To try to balance the playing field, Toro Rosso asked for an extra 500 rpm for qualifying, however
7200-526: The team on 1 November 2005. It was initially reported as 'Squadra Toro Rosso' ( team Red Bull ) but then changed because squadra in Italian depicts a 'squad' like a football team, to 'Scuderia Toro Rosso'. Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses, and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams, such as Ferrari. Many Minardi fans were upset by the name change to Scuderia Toro Rosso and over 15,000 signed an online petition to keep
7296-625: The team's reserve and test driver, and would also take part in free practice at each of the Grands Prix. The STR6 was launched on 1 February in Valencia , Spain. At the beginning of the season in Australia , Buemi finished eighth and collected four championship points. The Malaysian Grand Prix saw no points while China saw both cars in the top 10 for qualifying, Alguersuari in seventh and Buemi in tenth. However Alguersuari turned out to be
7392-432: The team. From 2007 to 2013 , Toro Rosso used Ferrari V8 engines, taking over the contract that their senior team broke from at the end of 2006 to switch engine builders to Renault . For 2014 , Toro Rosso switching to Renault engines as well, but in 2016 returned to using Ferrari power. However, they switched back to Renault in 2017 (albeit under 'Toro Rosso' branding), then in 2018 to Honda . The team principal
7488-511: The teams' finishing positions in the 1973 Constructors' Championship (with slight modifications, e.g. Ferrari's traditional numbers were 11–12 until 1980 and 27–28 from 1981 onwards) and each team only changed numbers if they had the driver who had won the World Drivers' Championship in the previous season – the winning driver taking the number 1 and his teammate the number 2, and the team that had previously had those numbers switching to
7584-525: The terms "constructor" and "entrant" have specific and differing meanings. An entrant is the person or corporate entity that registers a car and driver for a race, and is then responsible for preparing and maintaining that car during the race weekend. As a result of this preparation role and active involvement in the running of the race, the term "team" has become commonly applied to an entrant organisation. Statisticians do not always agree on how to count statistics related to these entities. Under Article 6.3 of
7680-475: The terms of the deal with Red Bull GmbH was the clause that the team must keep its headquarters in Faenza , Italy until at least the 2007 season. Whilst Red Bull abandoned the Minardi name in line with their own sponsorship and marketing plans, the use of the Italian language in the name was intended to hint at the team's Italian heritage. Red Bull changed the name of the team immediately after taking control of
7776-402: Was Franz Tost , formerly of BMW 's motor sport division. Vitantonio Liuzzi scored the team's first point in its first season at the 2006 United States Grand Prix . The team's first podium and only pole position and victory were scored by Sebastian Vettel at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix . Max Verstappen became the youngest driver to compete in Formula One, at 17 years and 166 days old, in
7872-441: Was 12th. Despite receiving a 5-second penalty for exceeding track limits, Vergne finished the race in 6th place, Kvyat finished in 14th place. At the Japanese Grand Prix , Vergne outqualified Kvyat as they started 11th and 13th respectively, and Vergne scored more points with a 9th-place finish, while Kvyat was just outside the points in 11th. Just before this race, Red Bull announced that Sebastian Vettel would leave their team at
7968-463: Was a marked improvement over the preceding Japanese Grand Prix , where Vettel crashed into Mark Webber's Red Bull under safety car conditions while they were running second and third respectively, and Liuzzi lost a potential point after a 25-second penalty for overtaking Adrian Sutil's Spyker for eighth under waved yellow flags dropped him to ninth. With the 2008 Concorde Agreement outlawing customer cars from 2010 onwards, Dietrich Mateschitz put
8064-563: Was able to finish the race. At the Canadian Grand Prix , Vergne started 8th while Kvyat qualified in 15th; Vergne finished where he started, while Kvyat retired due to a driveshaft failure. At the Austrian Grand Prix , Kvyat took his best qualifying position with 7th, while Vergne lined up from 15th position. The team suffered another double retirement, as Vergne retired due to an issue with his brakes, while Kvyat
8160-497: Was able to score a point in 10th place. At the Spanish Grand Prix , Kvyat once again qualified 13th while Vergne started 16th. Kvyat finished 14th, a lap down from the race winner while Vergne retired from the race due to an exhaust problem. At the Monaco Grand Prix , both cars qualified in the top ten, as Vergne was seventh while Kvyat qualified in ninth. However, with exhaust ailments inflicting both cars, neither driver
8256-427: Was announced that Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne would drive for the team in 2012, replacing Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari . Team principal Franz Tost later stated that the team had the make-up of a "rookie training school", with the prospect of bringing new talent to the team. After scoring points in the opening two rounds, Toro Rosso could not manage to maintain that pace and failed to finish in
8352-547: Was brought back to Toro Rosso from Red Bull, with Max Verstappen taking his place. List of Formula One constructors Formula One , abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The formula in the name alludes to a series of rules established by the FIA to which all participants and vehicles are required to conform. Each year,
8448-472: Was confirmed as the team's second driver. Four-time Champ Car champion Sébastien Bourdais was an occasional test driver several times during the season. The team appointed new technical director Giorgio Ascanelli to replace temporary stand-in Alex Hitzinger on 2 April. The 2007 season was generally disappointing, with poor reliability and driver errors leading to a low finishing record. Following
8544-470: Was confirmed that Toro Rosso would retain its drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Éric Vergne for the 2013 season. The team did not make the start they wanted at the Australian Grand Prix after Vergne finished 12th and Ricciardo retired due to an exhaust problem. However, at the Malaysian Grand Prix , Vergne managed to score the team's first point of the season with a respectable 10th place, while Ricciardo retired in 18th due to another exhaust problem. At
8640-467: Was exceptionally tolerated, most notably regarding the BRM team in the 1971 and 1972 seasons. However, many teams during this period entered only two cars, e.g. Ferrari have entered no more than two cars (with one exception at the 1976 Italian Grand Prix in connection with Lauda 's comeback) every season since 1973 . Since the 1985 season the FIA have required that teams enter no more than two cars for
8736-723: Was in the Indianapolis 500 from 1950 to 1960 when the race was part of the Formula One World Drivers' Championship . All were based in the United States. From the inaugural 1950 British Grand Prix until the 1981 Spanish Grand Prix numerous privateer teams entered cars, built by another companies as their constructors, in World Championship events. Some of them, such as Tyrrell and Williams , later began to build their own chassis and thus became constructors as well as works teams . At
8832-562: Was on a customer basis, paying for its engines with a lease as well as limited factory support. On 21 October 2013, it was announced that Jean-Éric Vergne would remain with the team for a third successive season, and will be partnered by Daniil Kvyat , who was a race-winner in the GP3 Series and the FIA European Formula 3 Championship in 2013. The team made an impressive start at the Australian Grand Prix with Vergne qualifying 6th, Toro Rosso's best qualifying result since
8928-492: Was sidelined with a suspension problem. At the British Grand Prix , both cars once again qualified in the top ten, with Kvyat ninth and Vergne tenth. For the first time since Australia, both drivers scored points, as both Kvyat and Vergne finished precisely where they started. At the German Grand Prix , Kvyat qualified eighth, five places ahead of his teammate. Vergne finished the race in 13th, while Kvyat retired from
9024-423: Was sold. The team used Minardi's contracted supply of rev limited and air restricted 2005-spec Cosworth TJ2005-2 3.0-litre V10 engines instead of newly built Cosworth CA2006 2.4-litre V8 engines as CA2006 V8 naturally-aspirated engines were too expensive for smaller teams as well as transmission package from Red Bull Technology . This concession had been granted to assist less well funded teams by avoiding
9120-642: Was sued by Shadow on the grounds that the Arrows FA/1 car was a copy of Shadow's DN9 – a view upheld by the UK High Court , which placed a ban on Arrows racing the FA/1. There have been more recent cases with Ligier (1995), Sauber (2004), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2006–2007) and Super Aguri (2007–2008) where teams have been accused of using a chassis produced by another constructor (respectively Benetton , Ferrari , Red Bull Racing and Honda ). No action
9216-416: Was taken against any of these teams, the sporting authorities being satisfied in each case that the team owned the intellectual property to the chassis they raced. From the middle of the 1973 season (the 1973 Belgian Grand Prix ) until the end of the 2013 season, each team had permanent racing numbers from race to race throughout the season. Between the 1974 and 1995 seasons the numbers were based on
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