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|+ style="font-size: larger; margin: inherit;" | '''Toro Rosso STR1'''
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! Category
| [[Formula One]]
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! Constructor
| [[Scuderia Toro Rosso]]
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! Team/s
| [[Scuderia Toro Rosso]]
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! Designers
| [[Mark Smith (racing engineer)|Mark Smith]]<br>[[Gabriele Tredozi]]
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! Drivers
| 20. [[Vitantonio Liuzzi]]<br>21. [[Scott Speed]]
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! Chassis
| carbon-fibre and honeycomb composite structure 
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! Suspension (front)
| cast titanium uprights, pushrods, carbon-fibre upper and lower wishbones
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! Suspension (rear)
| cast titanium uprights, pushrods, carbon-fibre upper and lower wishbones
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! Engine
| [[Cosworth]] TJ2005-2 90-degree [[V10 engine|V10]] (restricted)
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! Gearbox
| [[Scuderia Toro Rosso]] seven-speed longitudinal
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! Fuel
| [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]]
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! Tyres
| [[Bridgestone]]
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! Debut
| [[2006 Bahrain Grand Prix]]
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! Races competed
| 18
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! [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championships]]
| 0
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! [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Drivers' Championships]]
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! Race victories
| 0
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! Pole positions
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! Fastest laps
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The '''Toro Rosso STR1''' was the car with which the [[Scuderia Toro Rosso]] team competed in the {{F1|2006}} [[Formula One]] season.  It was driven by [[Vitantonio Liuzzi]], who had started four Grands Prix for the sister [[Red Bull Racing]] team in {{F1|2005}}, and [[Scott Speed]], a débutant who was the first [[United States|American]] driver to compete in F1 since [[Michael Andretti]] in {{F1|1993}}.

2006 marked a new beginning, as Red Bull had bought the [[Minardi]] team which had competed in F1 for twenty years and renamed it using the [[Italy|Italian]] translation of their brandname.  The new team inherited Minardi's technical team and its factory at [[Faenza]] only, as ex-owner [[Paul Stoddart]] kept Minardi's other property in [[Ledbury]].  A deal which allowed the team to run restricted [[V10 engine]]s, instead of [[V8 engine|V8s]], was also maintained despite the new ownership.

This allowed Toro Rosso to use an almost identical version of the previous year's [[Red Bull RB1]] coupled with the same [[Cosworth]] engines, only power-restricted under the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]'s equivalency formula.  Both the chassis-sharing and V10 engine usage remained controversial topics throughout the season, as the engine agreement was designed to benefit the poor Minardi team, not the much richer Red Bull company.  However, this wore off as the season progressed, as fears over the car's potential performance advantage proved to be unfounded. 

This was largely due to the year-old chassis, the torque advantage of the V10 being cancelled out by [[traction control]], and the lack of engine development and tyre testing given to the team.  However, the team were generally more competitive than [[Midland F1 Racing|Midland]]/[[Spyker F1|Spyker]] and [[Super Aguri F1|Super Aguri]], and Liuzzi was able to score the team's one and only point at [[2006 United States Grand Prix|Indianapolis]].

Liuzzi was generally the quicker of the drivers, although Speed improved as he gained in experience.  Despite both getting involved in several accidents and mistakes due to their inexperience, the STR duo both drew praise from part-team owner [[Gerhard Berger]] for their performances.

The team eventually finished ninth in the Constructors' Championship, with one point.
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Image:Vitantonio Liuzzi 2006.jpg|<font face="Trebuchet MS" font color=black>[[Vitantonio Liuzzi]] at the [[2006 Canadian Grand Prix]].
Image:Scott Speed Canada 2006 (crop).PNG|<font face="Trebuchet MS" font color=black>[[Scott Speed]] at the [[2006 Canadian Grand Prix]].
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==Complete Formula One results==
([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 2|key]]) (results in '''bold''' indicate pole position) 
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! Team
! Engine
! Tyres
! Drivers
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! Points
! WCC
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!rowspan="3"| [[2006 Formula One season|2006]]
|rowspan="3"| [[Scuderia Toro Rosso|Toro Rosso]]
|rowspan="3"| [[Cosworth]] [[V10 engine|V10]]
|rowspan="3"| {{Michelin}}
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| [[2006 Bahrain Grand Prix|BHR]]
| [[2006 Malaysian Grand Prix|MAL]]
| [[2006 Australian Grand Prix|AUS]]
| [[2006 San Marino Grand Prix|SMR]]
| [[2006 European Grand Prix|EUR]]
| [[2006 Spanish Grand Prix|ESP]]
| [[2006 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]
| [[2006 British Grand Prix|GBR]]
| [[2006 Canadian Grand Prix|CAN]]
| [[2006 United States Grand Prix|USA]]
| [[2006 French Grand Prix|FRA]]
| [[2006 German Grand Prix|GER]]
| [[2006 Hungarian Grand Prix|HUN]]
| [[2006 Turkish Grand Prix|TUR]]
| [[2006 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]
| [[2006 Chinese Grand Prix|CHN]]
| [[2006 Japanese Grand Prix|JPN]]
| [[2006 Brazilian Grand Prix|BRA]]
!rowspan="3"| 1
!rowspan="3"| 9th
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| [[Vitantonio Liuzzi]]
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>11</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>11</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>14</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>15</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>10</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#DFFFDF"| <small>8</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>10</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>14</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>10</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>14</small> 
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small> 
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| [[Scott Speed]]
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>9</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>15</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>11</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>10</small>
|bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| <small>Ret</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>10</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>12</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>11</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>13</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>14</small>
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>18</small> 
|bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| <small>11</small> 
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