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How one team is getting eight more GPs of running in 2019

Toro Rosso is on for its equal-best Formula 1 season, and a big part of its progress is down to the extra mileage it's covering in 2019. That's down to a tweak in its relationship with Red Bull, and a lot less crash damage...

Jake Boxall-Legge Sep 21, 2019, 1:56 PM

It's almost a quarter of a century since Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen said "you can't win anything with kids" in his languid Lowlands burr, months before a youthful Manchester United team won the Premier League. Similarly, it was back in 2007 when Mark Webber famously admonished Sebastian Vettel's rear-ending crash at Fuji with "it's kids, isn't it? Kids with not enough experience...".

Then, less than a year later, Vettel won at Monza in a Toro Rosso. Bloody kids, winning.

Since Vettel's maiden victory, Toro Rosso failed to visit the Formula 1 podium again until this year's German Grand Prix, when Daniil Kvyat made a bold strategy work and pitted during the late-race safety car period. Paired with Alex Albon's excellent sixth place, Toro Rosso took 23 points home from Hockenheim - the team's highest points haul from a single race throughout its F1 tenure.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.