Red Bull advisor Dr Helmut Marko has said that AlphaTauri will be treated as Red Bull’s “sister” team, rather than “junior”.

The Toro Rosso name which had been ever-present in Formula 1 since 2006 has been consigned to the archives – the team are now known as AlphaTauri and they revealed their 2020 challenger, the AT01, on Friday.

Toro Rosso were used as a junior team for Red Bull – a way for the Austrian team to give their junior drivers a seat in F1 before one day stepping up to the senior squad if they impressed.

And the system has proven highly successful with drivers such as Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen all spending time at Toro Rosso before graduating to Red Bull.

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