Is Toro Rosso F1 or F2?
Red Bull Racing Team’), commonly known as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, was an Italian Formula One constructor. It was one of two Formula One constructors owned by Austrian conglomerate company Red Bull, the other being Red Bull Racing. Scuderia Toro Rosso (Italian for Team Red Bull) was an Italian Formula One racing team that competed in the FIA Formula One World Championship from 2006 to 2019. The team was established after Red Bull GmbH purchased the former Minardi team in late 2005, and served as the junior outfit to Red Bull Racing.
Who replaced Toro Rosso in F1?
Scuderia AlphaTauri. Scuderia AlphaTauri was an Italian Formula One racing team and constructor, founded in 2020 and based in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The team served as the rebranded successor to Scuderia Toro Rosso, which had competed in Formula One since 2006 as the junior outfit to Red Bull Racing. Red Bull’s sister outfit joined the grid back in 2006 and initially raced under the Toro Rosso guise (meaning Red Bull in Italian) but were renamed as AlphaTauri from 2020 to promote the company’s fashion brand.
Is Toro Rosso coming back?
AlphaTauri Formula 1 boss Franz Tost says that the team is unlikely to return to its former Toro Rosso name when it undergoes a change of identity in 2024. The team has been branded as AlphaTauri – the clothing subsidiary of the Red Bull group – since the 2020 season. Why has AlphaTauri changed its name? After four years, the strategy of running the team as a mobile advertising hoarding for Red Bull’s fashion brand AlphaTauri has been abandoned, with suggestions that it has proved ineffective at driving sales of clothing, while requiring hefty investment.