Scuderia Toro Rosso is no more, as the team is now rebranded as AlphaTauri and this is the new livery and 2020 car, the AT01.
It certainly looks fresh and exciting after so many seasons featuring the Red Bull branding. The white and blue livery looks brilliant. The AT01 was unveiled at Red Bull’s Hanger 7 facility in Salzburg after the presentation of AlphaTauri’s clothing line and team wear.
AlphaTauri, which was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Salzburg, is Red Bull’s in-house fashion brand.
The rebrand is the team’s first since Red Bull took over the Minardi Formula 1 entry and Faenza base ahead of the 2006 season, and means that familiar ‘STR’ prefix in the names of the cars themselves has also been retired.
Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly will unite for their first season starting as team mates following Gasly’s demotion from the senior Red Bull Racing outfit ahead of last year’s Belgian Grand Prix.
Although both drivers raced for Toro Rosso in 2017, Kvyat’s 15 races and Gasly’s five outings – in a season when the team ran six drivers – did not coincide.
The team finished sixth in the 2019 constructors’ championship – its best result since 2008, the year Sebastian Vettel famously won the Italian Grand Prix.
Both Kvyat and Gasly scored podiums for Toro Rosso in 2019 – the former took third at the crazy German Grand Prix and the latter finished second in Brazil.
“We are looking with a new car to a new season, and I must say we are very optimistic for this season,” said team principal Franz Tost.
“Why? Because first of all the car showed very good results in the windtunnel, for second Honda, our friends in Japan, Sakura, made big progress during the winter months, from the performance side as well as from the reliability side. Third, we have two good drivers, they showed it already last year.
“We are really optimistic. The team must perform well, we have a fantastic partner with AlphaTauri and I am really convinced that AlphaTauri will have a successful season.”
Hopefully the performance by AlphaTauri this season will be competitive even with a new paint job. Best of luck to the team previously known as Toro Rosso.
Social media:
https://twitter.com/AlphaTauriF1/status/1228400605481308162
https://twitter.com/AlphaTauriF1/status/1228401953278976002
https://twitter.com/AlphaTauriF1/status/1228406505805897736
https://twitter.com/HondaRacingF1/status/1228419918238027778
Official website:
https://www.scuderiaalphatauri.com/en/gallery/at01-studio-shots/
https://www.scuderiaalphatauri.com/en/gallery/at01-studio-shots/
News stories:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.alphatauri-reveal-striking-2020-livery-after-toro-rosso-rebrand.3zbnWCzu4AyTSLrBYOoReL.html
https://the-race.com/formula-1/alphatauri-unveils-new-livery-and-car/
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11926924/alphatauri-begin-new-era-with-glitzy-f1-and-fashion-launch-reveal
https://www.racefans.net/2020/02/14/first-pictures-alphatauri-reveals-its-new-look-for-2020/
https://www.racefans.net/2020/02/14/tost-targets-top-five-for-alphatauri-after-big-progress-from-honda/
Gasly aiming for podium repeat with AlphaTauri in 2020, as team target P5. Article taken from Formula1.com.
Ever since he took his maiden F1 podium with Toro Rosso at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, Pierre Gasly has made no bones about the fact that the race at Interlagos was the best of his life. And after helping to launch the re-branded AlphaTauri squad in Austria, Gasly was already targeting a return to the rostrum with his ‘new’ team in 2020.
Gasly appeared at Red Bull’s extravagant Hangar-7 complex in Salzburg, to kick off AlphaTauri’s 2020 campaign, with he and team mate Daniil Kvyat – who also scored a podium in Germany for the squad last year – decked out in white and dark blue overalls, as the livery that will adorn the new AlphaTauri AT01 was shown off.
“It’s just an amazing adventure with Toro Rosso,” said Gasly, when asked by ceremony host David Coulthard about his time with the team. “The last two years have been pretty good. For sure the podium in Brazil last year was the best race I’ve had in my career, but of course the target is to repeat this kind of performance as many times as possible, and we’ll try to do it this year again.”
Also speaking at the launch, AlphaTauri Team Principal Franz Tost outlined a punchy goal for his team in 2020, after they enjoyed their joint-best ever constructors’ finish of sixth in 2019.
“We must be within the first five of the constructors’ championship,” said Tost decisively. “I’m really convinced that AlphaTauri will have a successful season.
“Why? Because first of all, the car showed very good results in the wind tunnel. Second, Honda, our friends in Japan, Sakura, made big progress during the winter months from the performance side as well as the reliability side.
“Third, we have two good drivers. They showed that already last year. We just missed the middle of the podium, so [to the drivers] that means that you know what you have to do!”
From Salzburg, Kvyat and Gasly were set to travel to the Misano circuit in Italy, where they will sample the AlphaTauri AT01 for the first time during a filming day on February 15, ahead of the start of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on February 19.