Design STR11 had on the shovel after arrival Ferrari engine

Posted on 19-02-2016 at 7:54 by nicolasr – 19 Comments”

Because a block of Renault lets not of course compare with an Italian thoroughbred.

It is almost as far, coming Monday the new Toro Rosso for the first time on the track. Not yet with the new colors, but with the new engine. And I surprise no one when I say that that power comes from Ferrari. The expectation is that the racing cars of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz a huge step forward, but that did not come naturally.

According to Autosport.com it has quite a lot of feet in the earth had to take the car to adapt to the new engine. It was only in november clear that the Red Bulls with the (old) engine from the Scuderia Ferrari on the track would go, but the car of 2016 was already largely designed. With a Renault power unit in the back of my mind. “The cooling system is different, just like the electronics, software and energy storage systems. Everyone has three months and worked very hard to get,” said TR director James Key.

Monday is so like I said, the baptism of fire, and Key means until that time, a blow to the arm. “We’ll just have to see if it all works well and if that is so, and we are faster than last year, then there are multiple teams with the 2016-engine Ferrari from the start. Those are probably still faster than us”.

Team boss Christian Horner of the big Red Bull thinks that the little sister it will be very good. In fact, he think in the first half of the season, beaten by Toro Rosso. “The Ferrari engine allows for a time savings of almost a second per lap, so they go past us,” he says. But in the second half of the season, thinks Horner that the proportions be re-straightened. “Renault is hard at work to make everything faster to get,” he says.

We are going to see it all. With regard to Toro Rosso; gets Carlos to the track, a day later, Max. On march 20, the points can actually be divided, namely, the end is Australia.