Toro Rosso will continue racing in 2009 despite its owner’s intention of selling the Formula One team.
Team principal Franz Tost said the Toro Rosso budget and structure will remain next season, despite the intentions of owner Dietrich Mateschitz, who also owns Red Bull, to sell the team.
“If every week there is a story that the team will be sold it is not so funny for the employees.
“But the message we have from Dietrich Mateschitz is clear, that for 2009 everything will remain stable, not just in terms of employment but also in terms of the budget,” Tost said in a preview for the race at Silverstone that marks the halfway point of the season.
“Then, from 2010 we will see what happens.”
Tost said both his drivers, Germany’s Sebastian Vettel and France’s Sebastien Bourdais, were doing well.
“We are just one point short of our total for the whole of last year, so we must have done something right,” technical director Giorgio Ascanelli said. “I don’t regret any decisions we took.”
