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Formula 1 Scuderia Toro Rosso STR6 | 2011 Formula One season | Type 056 engine | 800+ BHP

2011 Model

The Toro Rosso STR6 is a Formula One racing car developed by Scuderia Toro Rosso for the 2011 Formula

One season. It is the second car that the team has built entirely on its own following the introduction

of regulations that banned the use of “customer chassis”, a chassis developed by one team and

purchased by another (prior to 2010 Toro Rosso used a customer chassis from its “big brother” Red Bull

Racing).

In 2011, the car was driven by Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, with test driver Daniel Ricciardo

being guaranteed the opportunity to drive the car in the first practice session of a race weekend at all

twenty races in the season (Ricciardo was signed by Hispania Racing/HRT as a replacement for Narain

Karthikeyan from Round 9 of the championship in Great Britain). The car was unveiled on 1 February at

the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain.

The Toro Rosso STR6 was powered by the Type 056 engine from Ferrari, the same engine that powered

the works Ferraris but the Toro Rosso STR6 used a 2010-spec Ferrari 056 engine for budgetary reasons.

Alguersuari recorded the car’s highest qualifying position with 6th at the Belgian Grand Prix and he also

recorded the car’s best finish with a pair of 7th places at the Italian and Korean Grands Prix. Buemi and

Alguersuari combined to score 41 points in 2011 giving the team 8th in the Constructors Championship.

Buemi scored 15 of the points to finish the Drivers’ Championship in 15th place while Alguersuari scored

26 to finish 14th.

The chassis detailed in this report is Chassis 01, completed first at the STR base in the ex-Minardi factory

in Faenza.