Alguersuari was near the exit

Jaime Alguersuari, pilot Toro Rosso, almost didn't ride in Formula 1 this season. As for Sébastien Bourdais a year earlier, the young Spaniard was asked to provide a budget to the Faenza team, which had to take charge of the full development of the STR5 this season. “ For a while it was true, attests Jaime Alguersuari Sr, father of the pilot, to El Pais. But I toured the big Spanish companies and came back to see Franz Tost (stable boss) without having found anything. He was devastated. But it finally worked. »