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Plenty of updates for Toro Rosso

Scuderia Toro Rosso's cars have had a significant update since the last round in Bahrain according to the team's chief engineer, Laurent Mekies. The team hopes the updates will help it move up the order after a difficult start to the season.

"Like most teams, after the first three grands prix, we have a significant upgrade to our aerodynamic package and the major element of our update is a new rear wing," says Mekies. "Also part of the aero package update are new side pod wings. These are the two elements easy to see from the grandstands. In addition, the main aspect of our aero update is one that is harder to spot, but that we believe is as important as the more obvious items: we have paid very close attention to the quality of all components that affect the aerodynamics on the car. As everyone knows, we really had to rush simply to get parts ready for the first three races and the price we paid for rushing was that the quality level was not up to the standard we wanted. Now, we have worked on the aero quality of the parts, which involves ensuring that there is a better fit between all the bodywork components."

While the aerodynamic modifications are the most obvious changes on the Toro Rosso cars, work has also been carried out in other areas. "We will also have some new mechanical parts that increase our flexibility when it comes to working on the car, giving us more set-up options," says Mekies. "Over the first three grands prix, we had two reliability failures in the races. When you start the year with three flyaway races, you have to come up with interim solutions to fix reliability issues, while now we believe we have worked out proper solutions for the faults that caused the two retirements we have suffered to date."

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