Toro Rosso to Become Full Constructor in 2010

Starting 2010, Scuderia Toro Rosso will become full constructor in the Formula One Championship. And it was the very team principal Franz Tost to announce it, as the new Concorde Agreement – to be signed later this year by Bernie Ecclestone and the FOTA representatives – will clearly state each team will have to build its own chassis in the series.

For the past 4 years, STR has used customer Red Bull chassis from sister team in Milton Keynes, although several other parts had to be further adapted to their different power train back at Faenza. The team's collaboration with RBR will continue, however, from 2010 onwards, as Tost revealed his outfit will still use RBR's wind tunnel in the United Kingdom.

“We are busy expanding our infrastructure because we have to design and develop our own car in Faenza next year. Everything is running according the plan,” said Tost.

“The parts that the Concorde agreements demands every team must do, we will do in Faenza. But other composites, for example transmission and things produced with partners, we will make other arrangements for. But we will have our own chief designer. Adrian Newey is concentrating on Red Bull Technology and Red Bull Racing.”

“We will use the Red Bull wind tunnel in Bicester and we are establishing our own CFD department. There are wind tunnels in Italy, but from a cost-effectiveness point of view, Bicester is the best solution. It belongs to Red Bull, and because STR is a team that takes cost-cutting seriously, that is the best solution,” added the STR team principal.