How much Toro Rosso spent on fixing crashed cars in 2018...
How much Toro Rosso spent on fixing crashed cars in 2018...
Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost has revealed that the cost of fixing damage done by Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley crashing in 2018 totalled more than €2million. Hartley especially suffered poor fortune in the season, which perhaps cost him his race seat.
The Kiwi suffered heavy crashes in practice sessions in Spain and Great Britain, with scary in-race collisions coming in Canada and Monaco.
Toro Rosso dropped two places and 20 points in the constructors' standings from 2017 to 2018 after switching to Honda power – something Tost has already put down to aerodynamic failings on the team's side, with bad luck perhaps also playing a part.
"We had highlights this season and some races which were really not good," Tost told Motorsport.
"The highlights were quite clear, when Gasly finished fourth in Bahrain, which was a strong race, and he did a very good race also in Monaco [and finished seventh], Budapest he finished sixth.
"Spa was a good race, because we didn't expect to finish in the points there but we finished ninth, and in Mexico, where he finished 10th.
"Then we had many crashes. This year we spent €2.3million only for crashes.
"The heavy crash between Gasly and [Romain] Grosjean at Barcelona, and Gasly couldn't do anything and the crash with [Esteban] Ocon in France.
"Then the heavy crash with [Lance] Stroll and Hartley in Canada, then the situation at Silverstone [Hartley ploughed into the barriers in FP3 after suffering suspension failure].
"In Monza, Brendon got touched by Stoffel Vandoorne and by Marcus Ericsson, both of them. Four sides were nearly gone. This was really not good."
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