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F1 mid-season team report: Scuderia Toro Rosso


We rate Red Bull’s little brother, based on the first half of 2008

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SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO
Drivers Sebastian Vettel (Germany) & Sebastien Bourdais (France)
Championship points 7

Read our verdict on Toro Rosso below:

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Posted: July 9th, 2008 by Ollie Irish

F1 videos: The running of the Red Bulls in Pamplona


DC and Seb Bourdais chase some Spaniards

On current form, we’re surprised that Coulthard didn’t crash into anything, or anyone.

But as F1 PR stunts go, we concede that this one is pretty damn good - the donuts in the bull ring are especially cool.

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Posted: June 30th, 2008 by Ollie Irish

Unlikely F1 fans, No.6: Miss France


French beauty queen hangs out with Toro Rosso

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Valerie Begue, the current Miss France, was a guest of Toro Rosso at Sunday’s French GP. She wore a few more clothes than in her day job though, as the pics below show…

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Posted: June 23rd, 2008 by Ollie Irish

Canadian GP: the F1 circus arrives, in pictures


F1 teams roll into Montreal. We’re on it

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BMW Sauber drivers Bobby Kubica and Nick Heidfeld, who always seem to draw the short PR straw, pose with a couple of Mounties, by Montreal’s St. Lawrence River.

More photos below…

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Posted: June 6th, 2008 by Ollie Irish

Motorsport news: Super Auguri not so super


Today’s top news stories from F1 and beyond

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Super Aguri may be forced out of Formula One after a potential investor pulled the plug on a multi-million pound deal. The struggling Japanese team (look in the dictionary under “backmarker” and you’ll see a Super Aguri car, probably being lifted from a track), which has been absent from testing in Barcelona this week, could miss next week’s Spanish Grand Prix after owner Aguri Suzuki admitted he will have to “consider the future of the team”. Without Aguri, who will Fernando Alonso have to overtake? [Telegraph]

More news coming up…

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Posted: April 17th, 2008 by Ollie Irish