{"id":1052,"date":"2017-02-26T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonmotorsport.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2017-02-26T13:07:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:07:44","slug":"toro-rosso-unveil-str12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2017\/02\/26\/toro-rosso-unveil-str12\/","title":{"rendered":"Toro Rosso unveil the STR-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toro Rosso<\/strong> have unveiled their 2017 car in the form of the STR-12 in Barcelona, one day before the start of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya.<\/p>\n<p>The STR-12 will be driven by <strong>Carlos Sainz Jr<\/strong>, and <strong>Daniil Kvyat<\/strong>, who remain as team mates at the Red Bull Junior team for a second year in succession. Much speculation however surrounded Toro Rosso&#8217;s 2017 driver line up, with there being rumors circulating around the paddock in 2016 that Sainz may be joining the<strong> Renault F1 Team<\/strong>, and that Kvyat may be dropped from the Red Bull Young Driver Programme following a disastrous 2016 Season which resulted in the young Russian being demoted from <strong>Red Bull Racing<\/strong> to his old 2014 team.<\/p>\n<p>For 2017, Toro Rosso will run Renault engines after using 2015 spec <strong>Ferrari<\/strong> engines in 2016, which resulted in the team losing their competitive edge towards the end of the season as other teams began to out develop them. In a filming day earlier this week however, Toro Rosso found themselves in trouble after their Renault engine failed after only six laps &#8211; a problem that was terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Like other teams across the grid, the STR-12 features larger barge boards, a more angular front wing, as well as the use of the &#8216;shark fin&#8217; on the engine cover. The car does not however, feature a &#8216;thumb&#8217; nose &#8211; something that a number of teams have adopted for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The livery of Toro Rosso&#8217;s 2017 car has also changed, with the team adopting a dark blue, silver, and red livery for the forthcoming season as opposed to the team&#8217;s traditional colours of dark blue and gold.<\/p>\n<p>More images of the STR-12 can be seen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STR12?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#STR12<\/a> in action! ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1So5mDzZ9y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1So5mDzZ9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toro Rosso (@ToroRossoSpy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToroRossoSpy\/status\/835912554983616512\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Toro Rosso STR-12 will make its debut on track tomorrow on the first day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toro Rosso have unveiled their 2017 car in the form of the STR-12 in Barcelona, one day before the start of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya. The STR-12 will be driven by Carlos Sainz Jr, and Daniil Kvyat, who remain as team mates at the Red Bull Junior team for a second year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,506,226,484,23,279],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-2017-formula-1-season","tag-carlos-sainz-jr","tag-daniil-kvyat","tag-f1-car-launches","tag-formula-1","tag-toro-rosso"],"modified_by":"Chris Soulsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}