Driven by Max Verstappen in the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship

The Scuderia Toro Rosso STR10 – 02 represents a key chassis from the Faenza team’s tenth Formula One car programme and the machine that brought Max Verstappen into Formula One. The car was unveiled on 31 January 2015 at the Jerez circuit, one day before winter testing began, where Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr. started their debut F1 season. As the second Toro Rosso car to be powered by Renault, the STR10 marked a technical step forward for the team and introduced two of the sport’s most exciting young drivers to the grid.

Key Features of the Scuderia Toro Rosso STR10 – 02

• Full scale factory built STR10 chassis
• Driven by Max Verstappen
  
• Renault Energy F1 2015 power unit
• Updated aerodynamic concept
• Focused development approach
  
  

A Significant Car in Toro Rosso History

Team Principal Franz Tost described the STR10 as the best car the team had produced at that time, benefitting from improved processes, lessons learned from earlier seasons and a stronger Renault power unit that addressed shortcomings from 2014. The updated FIA nose regulations also played a major role in shaping the STR10’s long and lower profile, while reorganised internal packaging allowed for more streamlined sidepods.

Technical Director James Key highlighted how ambitious the car’s development cycle was, saying at launch: “It will look quite different by the time we get to Race 1. We've got several very new ideas which have gone into it, which the team is exploring for the first time, which makes it an interesting project. We've pushed the limits of timing much more with STR10 than with passed cars and we're dealing with it really well. We have a pretty aggressive plan for development. We'll turn up to Race 1 with a fundamentally different car to the one we run in testing."

Chassis 02 stands as an important part of the team’s history and the early career of Max Verstappen, whose debut season in the STR10 marked the beginning of his rise to becoming one of the defining talents of modern Formula One.