Zoom Toro Rosso to start the season with the '07 car

The penultimate pre-season team test got underway today for Toro Rosso Ferrari at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in southern Spain and both Sebastian Vettel and Sebastien Bourdais will be in action over the three days at the wheel of an STR2B each.

Apart from a strong and intermittent wind making for inconsistent conditions out on track, it was a trouble free day for the two drivers.

They cracked on with a programme which included set-up work and more practice for race conditions with simulated pit stops, starts and some long runs, while fine tuning the 2008 electronics programmes.

Vettel set the ninth fastest time with a best lap of 1:20. 105s, just a second off the ultimate pace. Bourdais was three tenths adrift on this occasion and 11th fastest of the 16 drivers present.

Both continue at the Spanish venue tomorrow.

E.A.
Source Toro Rosso Ferrari