The team's blue, silver and red livery, first introduced in 2017, remains.
Toro Rosso finished ninth in the constructors' championship last season and will have a closer relationship with Red Bull this year by using parts from its senior team's 2018 car.
Franz Tost, Team Principal: “The aim is to always improve in order to compete at the highest possible level and this winter we have worked intensively to bring a few organizational changes, which we hope will help smooth a few issues we experienced in the past. We have analysed all the internal procedures in order to optimize our strengths and minimize our weaknesses. Compared to other teams, Toro Rosso count on a smaller number of people, but the synergies with Red Bull Technology for the non-listed parts, now that Aston Martin Red Bull Racing will also be equipped with the Honda Engine, will leave more time for our technical working groups to focus more on the details. Attention to detail makes the difference and this translates to more performance.
"Components relative to the power unit will be the same specification as Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, to be used within the regulations. Most of the remaining parts we receive from Red Bull Technology will be last year’s specifications. Scuderia Toro Rosso, being a smaller team, could not follow the fast development and production process a bigger team can afford, especially considering that the release of the technical drawing could, for whatever reason, be delayed or delivered last minute. We have very good technical people to follow the in-house design, and the reliability of last year’s synergy project parts will put us in a more favourable situation to develop quicker during the season."
"In regards to our performance, as is always the case before the start of a season, it’s too early to say and we don’t want to set a specific target – at least not now. All things considered, the quality of the synergies with Red Bull Technology, the belief in our very high level of in-house technical knowledge, the impressive development trajectory Honda has shown so far, and the couple of strong young drivers we have available make me feel confident we will put ourselves in a strong midfield position in the Championship."
Toyoharu Tanabe, Honda F1 Technical Director: "Honda is satisfied with the way the partnership with Toro Rosso worked in 2018. Whenever you start working with a group of people for the first time, it can take a while for each group to adapt to the way of working of the other. But with Toro Rosso, I can honestly say, we found a good way very quickly. It was a relationship based on mutual trust and respect and that continues today."
"The number of Honda engineers at the track will be almost double to deal with two teams. I will be in overall charge of the F1 project, overseeing how we work with both teams and each team will then have its own Honda Chief Engineer. During the race weekend and testing, we have people working in a Mission Control room both in Sakura and Milton Keynes and we have strengthened the functionality there as well, in order to deal with working for two teams. Honda is going to supply both teams with the same specification PU."
"Our aim is to achieve better results than in 2018 for both teams. For our partnership with Toro Rosso, that means finishing higher up in the Constructors’ Championship, scoring more points, running more reliably and, maybe even repeating last year’s Bahrain result or doing better. However, at this stage, we cannot know what to expect, because as in all sports, our result also depends on what our opponents can do."
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