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Albon gets first taste of F1 with Toro Rosso shakedown

Formula 1 rookie Alexander Albon got his first run in a Grand Prix car today at Misano where Scuderia Toro Rosso shook down its 2019-spec STR14. The Faenza-base squad revealed its new Honda-powered charger on Monday and used one of its two allocated filming days to check its cars systems before the team haeds to Barcelona for pre-season testing. While Albon has conducted extensive testing in Toro Rosso's simulator, the British-Thai racer had yet to get behind the wheel of an F1 car. Albon: Formula E test 'useful' for entry into F1 The 22-year-old recently admitted that he was facing a steep learning curve in F1, both in terms of performance relative to Formula 2 in which he raced last...
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