AlphaTauri has launched its 2020 Formula 1 programme, marking a new era for the operation that has previously competed as Toro Rosso and Minardi. Its new identity was formally launched during a fashion-based event in Red Bull’s Hangar-7 in Salzburg on Friday evening. It also provided a glimpse of its new-look Formula 1 car, the ATO1, with which it will compete in Formula 1 this year. The squad can trace its history back to the early 1980s and competed in Formula 1 as Minardi from 1985 through 2005, becoming a fan-favourite backmarker, prior to its acquisition by Red Bull. Red Bull renamed the team Toro Rosso, as a nod to its Italian heritage, and it became recognised as the drinks...
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