Auto123.com - Helping you drive happy

F1: Scuderia Toro Rosso expects huge step forward in Hungary

|
Get the best interest rate
Khatir Soltani
From GMM

According to Swiss driver Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso's technical upgrades in Hungary in two weeks could amount to nearly a full second per lap in gained time.

It is already known that the Faenza team will finally fit a double diffuser to its car at the next race.

But it also emerges that the new package will involve most of the recent developments featured on the dominant sister car of Red Bull Racing, including the fatter front nose.

The urgency of the Toro Rosso upgrade is that the Ferrari-powered team has at recent races dropped clearly behind Force India.

Force India's business director Ian Phillips believes Force India has found 1.7 seconds since the beginning of the 2009 season, culminating in Adrian Sutil's impressive seventh grid position with a big load of fuel.

"The modified car brings us nine tenths," rookie Buemi told Germany's Auto Motor und Sport, "and I would be happy if it was only seven."



photo:Paul Gilham/Getty Images
Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
Automotive expert
  • Over 6 years experience as a car reviewer
  • Over 50 test drives in the last year
  • Involved in discussions with virtually every auto manufacturer in Canada