Toro Rosso, the development team for Formula One’s Red Bull Racing, has a 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 in it this year.
Smile on the outside to hide the pain on the inside, until the engine , Toro Rosso.
This will be Toro Rosso’s first season since with F1’s second-worst engine supplier, Renault, which Honda . That didn’t happen, and other teams are so terrified of the engine that Sauber’s new team principal within his first hour in charge.
The car features the new , a safety bar above the cockpit that the Mercedes team claims of a double-decker bus. It blends well and looks less like a flip flop when it matches the color of the race car, instead of . It also from the car as much as we expected, but a bar in the middle of the view is still a sight to get used to.
Should Honda’s more than a few laps, Toro Rosso claims the car will rev to 15,000 RPM. The car weighs right at 1,616 pounds, which is the for F1 cars after the addition of the halo. All in all, it’s a good-looking vehicle that, again, we probably won’t see much of this year. and tend to hog all of the attention.
At least with the Honda power unit, it’ll probably get some television coverage when the engine gives out... , and , and .