Motorsport Week continues its team-by-team mid-season review with Toro Rosso, which took up McLaren’s abandoned supply of Honda power units, and has consequently had a mixed season. Toro Rosso entered a new era in 2018 with Honda and the early signs were encouraging, running reliably during testing, and forging close ties with the Japanese marque through cultural and language lessons – small, but important steps. Lofty ambitions of fighting for fifth place, or above, in the standings have expectedly been unfulfilled, but it has been a promising campaign, with several standout results, achieved courtesy of Pierre Gasly. Frequently the STR13 has been on the fringes of points, a...
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