F1: Tost ‘Satisfied’ With Toro Rosso Form

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F1: Tost ‘Satisfied’ With Toro Rosso Form

Scuderia Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost says the team is off to a good start...

Adam Cooper | http://www.speedtv.com | Posted February 08, 2013 Jerez (ESP)

Scuderia Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost (Left) says the team is on the right track. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Scuderia Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost says that the Italian team was encouraged by the first outing of the STR8 in Jerez.

The car was in the top half of the order for much of the week, with Jean-Eric Vergne taking fifth spot both on Wednesday and Friday as the pace sped up.

“We can be satisfied with these first four days of testing,” says Tost. “The car showed reasonable potential, and reliability was not too bad, which meant we completed a respectable number of laps, first with Daniel (Ricciardo) and then with Jean-Eric. In contrast to this test last year when they were rookies, both of them knew what to do and what to expect.

“However, the two of them had to get used to working with new race engineers, and that part of the test also progressed well. There is absolutely no point in talking about car performance at this stage. The most important task we face now is to analyze everything we have done over the past four days in Jerez, so as to decide what our priorities will be in Barcelona in eleven days’ time, when we start the second test session.”

Adam Cooper notched up his 28th season as a racing journalist in 2012. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.

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