Toro Rosso decide to call Jerome d’Ambrosio a custard – Formula 1 news
Jerome d’Ambrosio became a part of Toro Rosso, Red Bull Racing team’s sister team in Formula 1 by the end of last year as the team’s full season driver for the 2011 season.
This is going to be Jerome’s first Formula 1 season and it seems that he will debut in his Formula 1 race this season. The team is expecting that Jerome will help them obtain good results this season as they believe that they came up with a better car this
season than they did back in 2010.
However, the team has been interacting with the young Belgian driver a lot and it seems that the team is getting along with him quite well.
Recently, the team revealed that they have decided to call him ‘custard.’ This word was pasted on his cockpit when the team began its testing for the 2011 Formula 1 season during the first pre-season test session in Valencia.
‘Ambrosia’ is a very well known custard/pudding making company and it seems that the team decided to call him ‘custard’ since his last name is quite similar to the company’s name.
“It just shows I fit in the team pretty well straight way, so I'm happy,” d’Ambrosio told the media.
Other than that, Jerome is the first Belgian driver to race in F1 since Bertrand Gachot who retired back in 1995. Gachot was not a national of Belgium as he carried a French passport but originally, he was born in Luxembourg.
According to some reports, it was predicted that d’Ambrosio is pretty bold but it seems that he is not and his help will definitely enable the team to perform better and on top of that, the Belgian Grand Prix is going to be a part of the Formula 1 calendar
for the next couple of years at least as well.
“I won't have the arrogance to say that I will bring back Spa to the old days by myself. But for sure it will be something positive and hopefully we will be able to build on that,” he insisted.
It would be interesting to see how he performs at the second pre-season test session in Jerez as the fans are expecting a lot from him and he himself is also aware that he needs to prove that he is in Formula 1 to win and score points consistently.
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