Motorsport Week continues its end-of-season review pieces with Toro Rosso, which returned to the podium places and came tantalisingly close to a top five position in the standings, as it scored its best points haul. There are usually smirks pre-season when Franz Tost takes to the stage and grandly announces that there is no reason why Toro Rosso cannot target a top five position in the Constructors’ Championship. But each year through the hybrid era it placed a solid seventh, peaking with the standout Max Verstappen/Carlos Sainz Jr. season in 2015, until last season, when it slipped to ninth amid being used as a test bed for Red Bull and Honda. This year Tost’s ambition once...
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