Toro Rosso technical director James Key says the car the team has brought to this week's first Formula 1 pre-season test is a 2016-spec car.Carlos Sainz Jr said on Wednesday the car was "a mix of last year and some parts from this year" and later added "it's an STR10...

Carlos Sainz Jr. says the Formula 1 car Toro Rosso is running this week in pre-season testing is essentially last year's challenger with some new parts.Toro Rosso secured a late deal to replace Renault with 2015-spec Ferrari power units and that put pressure on the team to get a new...

Carlos Sainz Jr. feels he is enduring a frustrating period of his rookie Formula 1 campaign following a run of four consecutive retirements.Sainz has been let down by car problems in Austria, Britain, Hungary, and most recently Belgium. At Spa his STR10 encountered an electrical fault on the formation lap,...

Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost feels rookie duo Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr. would not have impressed so much this Formula 1 season but for his squad's car.Tost stressed that he was taking nothing way from the duo's efforts, but felt it ought to be recognized that without...

Carlos Sainz Jr. has called on Toro Rosso to finally understand why his car fails to perform at the start of a Formula 1 race, when laden with a full tank of fuel.The STR10 has recently looked strong through practice, to the extent that Sainz's teammate Max Verstappen suggested only...

Daniel Ricciardo believes Toro Rosso's strong form over the first eight races of the 2015 Formula 1 season has acted as a "wake-up call" to his Red Bull team.Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen reckons his squad has produced the second-fastest chassis this year, behind only Mercedes, and the Red Bull junior...

Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz Jr. says his Formula 1 car is "at the level of Williams" and that it could challenge the team if Renault makes top-speed gains.The Spaniard has made a strong start to his F1 career, finishing in the points in Australia and Malaysia to help the...

Toro Rosso has made a big step forward in downforce levels with its revised 2015 Formula 1 car, reckons Carlos Sainz Jr.Technical director James Key said the version of the STR10 being used at Barcelona this week was "almost completely brand new" compared to the car run in testing so...

Toro Rosso technical director James Key says the STR10 running this week at Barcelona is "almost completely brand-new" compared to the Formula 1 machine tested so far in pre-season.The car features a new Williams-style front nose for the final pre-season F1 test of 2015, and also new aerodynamic packaging, cooling...

Carlos Sainz Jr. blamed high winds for the crash that brought Toro Rosso's final day of the second Formula 1 pre-season test to an early end.The rookie, who was fastest in the morning, lost control of his STR10 at the long Turn 3 while using hard tires on a long...