14 February 2007

Circuit: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona - 4.655 kmCar: STR2Driver: Tonio Liuzzi1.26.296    43 laps

Tuesday, the Scuderia Toro Rosso crew was robbed of the chance of seeingits new car make its track debut, when a red flag stopped the session with justfive minutes of test time remaining. But yesterday, Tonio Liuzzi was able to rewardthem with the perfect Valentine's Day gift of 43 relatively trouble-freeshakedown laps.

"The last few weeks have been a real rush for all of us," said Chief Engineer,Laurent Mekies. "So it was great to see our new car finally running andcompleting a respectable 43 laps. This was very much a shakedown andsystems check, with no thought of setting quick lap times. Now, we must pushvery hard over the coming weeks to make up for the fact we have only startedrunning quite late. Like everyone else, our next step is the test at the Sakhircircuit in Bahrain, starting on 22 February."