Toro Rosso STR13 Technical Analysis
Scuderia Toro Rosso embarked on 2018 with Honda as their new power unit partner and despite the challenges of the late deal, this new works team has engineered some impressive performance into this year?s STR13. In addition to integrating a completely new powertrain concept, Toro Rosso also developed their own bespoke carbon fibre transmission, modified their rear suspension and improved their aerodynamics.
?The 2018 car is a bit of an evolution in some areas, but in other areas we have changed things,? explains James Key, Technical Director of Scuderia Toro Rosso. ?As always there is a whole big slew of things that you want to account for when doing a new car, but I think the overriding point of course is pure performance level which everyone is pushing as hard as they can to improve,? Key continues. ?The big problem of course was that by the time we started serious work on the car for 2018 we were still early in 2017 and we didn?t fully understand the impact of the regulations, how the new wider tyres and aerodynamic changes would interact with each other. The 2nd year is always an important time to try to pick up on the areas maybe you missed on in the previous year. So, we tried to identify the areas that we felt were developing well.?  
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