Toro Rosso vs. Red Bull: Could the Support Act Outshine the Star in 2016?

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Published: January 21, 2016

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Red Bull enter the 2016 Formula One season aiming to return to the top step of the podium after a disappointing and winless 2015 campaign.

The Austrian team lost their place as best of the rest to Ferrari, frequently found themselves outpaced by Williams and managed just three podiums on their way to fourth in the constructors' championship.

Their total of 187 points was by far the lowest they have ever achieved under the current scoring system, and 2015 was the first season since 2008 in which they failed to win a single race.

Their car that year was the RB4, and in the hands of David Coulthard and Mark Webber, it scored just 29 points. But 2008 wasn't a total loss.

The RB4 was also entered by sister team Toro Rosso, painted in different colours and with a different engine in the back; with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel, it won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix.



Thanks to Vettel's victory, Toro Rosso ended the season sixth in the constructors' championship with 39 points, beating their big brothers for the first—and thus far, only—time in their short history.

A Ferrari engine powered their success back then, and 2016 will see the relationship with their fellow Italians restored. Toro Rosso will use year-old Ferrari power units, while Red Bull will, as they were in 2008, be users of a current-specification Renault.

Power-unit performance has been the key to on-track success since the start of the V6 turbo hybrid era, and smaller teams have often come out on top against larger rivals thanks to a bit of extra grunt.

The Ferrari engine that raced in the 2015 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix—the specification Toro Rosso will be using—was substantially more powerful and reliable than its Renault counterpart, and there are no guarantees the French manufacturer will make any significant progress over the winter.

So are we about to witness the most ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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