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Toro Rosso Ready to Design Own Car in 2010

2010 will mark the beginning of Toro Rosso using their own-designed cars in Formula One. Until this season, the most important parts of the developing process – regarding their F1 challengers – were secured by Red Bull Technologies, the very company that works with Red Bull Racing for their cars' design.

Although they've argued plenty of times that most of the components of the car are actually built at the headquarters in Faenza, there were several complaints from the majority of the F1 teams that Toro Rosso was in fact using customer cars from Red Bull. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) quickly responded by imposing the Italian outfit to have their own design facility by the beginning of 2010.

While admitting that switching from Red Bull design to own capabilities of building an F1 car from scratch will be a tough transition period for the team, principal Franz Tost expressed his excitement over the new challenge.

We have to design the car by ourselves, we have to build the car as well and the infrastructure still needs to be improved. This will take time. [...] I hope that we as a small team can do a good job and bring a car to the racetrack that can achieve good positions from the beginning,” Tost was quoted as saying to British magazine Autosport.

The Austrian official admitted that his team always kept some resources in terms of car development, but doing it from scratch requires a whole other level of readiness. Some of the changes for next season will therefore help the team in relation to the other F1 outfits, as it will limit the gap between them.

Refueling ban will certainly change the design of a car, something that all teams will have to proceed to, not only Toro Rosso.
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