LOT 53

2019 Toro Rosso-Honda STR19 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater Chassis no. STR19-04

Sold for US$224,000 inc. premiumLot to be sold without reserve

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The Ex-Pierre Gasly/Alex Albon
Brazilian Grand Prix 2nd-placed
2019 Toro Rosso-Honda STR19 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater

The Laguna Seca Auction|13 August 2026, 10:00 PDT|WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

2019 Toro Rosso-Honda STR19 Formula 1 Racing Single-Seater
Chassis no. STR19-04

8-Speed Red Bull Technologies Sequential Semi-Automatic Transmission
4-Wheel Independent Suspension
4-Wheel Brembo 6-Piston Caliper Carbon Ceramic Disc Brakes

* Successfully raced through the 2019 season
* A podium finisher – achieving 2nd place at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix with Pierre Gasly driving
* Retaining much of its mechanical componentry save for the engine
* A rare opportunity to acquire a modern F1 car

SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO

Today's Formula 1 Racing Bulls team was known from 2006-2019 as Scuderia Toro Rosso - and it grew from the takeover by Red Bull energy drinks co-owner Dietrich Mateschitz of the former Minardi team, of Faenza, Italy. Minardi had competed at this top level of motor sport from 1985 to 2005. It had been a team which enjoyed little success, while counting future World Champion Driver Fernando Alonso amongst its alumni, together with such subsequent Grand Prix race winners as Giancarlo Fisichella, Alessandro Nannini, Jaarno Trulli and Mark Weber.

The Toro Rosso team's 2019 STR14 car was designed around the proven rear end configuration of the previous year's Red Bull-Honda. Its new team technical director Jody Eggington oversaw the design's completion and race development through the 2019 season, which saw it score two podium finishes which were the first achieved by the team since Sebastian Vettel had won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix in one of its earlier cars.

The Red Bull rear end comprised suspension and gearbox - the transmission assembly having been designed around the preceding Renault power unit instead of the Honda V6 which had a split turbocharger system. This meant that the gearbox was unnecessarily long, making the Toro Rosso the third-longest Formula 1 car in the entire 2019 field. At the front end the inboard suspension components were used from the preceding Red Bull car system.

Technical Director Eggington said that "It all worked quite well" - including the front end aerodynamic treatment which was quite different from Red Bull practice. Built for essential simplicity and practicality, the STR14 's competitiveness tended to diminish through the second half of the season, despite which it had a far better development rate than its predecessors. Over the season the STR14's average qualifying pace was assessed to be 1.6sec adrift of the dominant Mercedes.

These overall traits were well demonstrated by the broad range of circuits at which the car performed well. Such venues as Baku, Monaco, Silverstone and Monza each made very different demands upon competing chassis.

THE CAR OFFERED

This startlingly beautiful modern-era Formula 1 car is offered here is not only a much-raced team car from the lengthy 2019 Formula 1 World Championship season, but also a podium place-winning car, having been driven by the French star Pierre Gasly to finish second in that year's Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, Sao Paulo.

This particular chassis was driven in the opening nine rounds of that 2019 Formula 1 World Championship seasons Grands Prix races by rapidly improving British Thai hopeful Alex Albon. In it he scored World Championship points in the year's Monaco (8th) and German (6th) GPs. When he was promoted into the 'parent' Red Bull team, French newcomer Pierre Gasly took over for the final min rounds of the Championship - scoring points in the Belgian (9th), Singapore (8th), Japanese (7th) and Mexican (9th) GPs before his singular second place overall to join winner Max Verstappen of Red Bull and third placement Carlos Sainz of McLaren upon the podium.

The type's other podium finishes achieved in the rain at Hockenheim, Germany, where Danil Kvyat had finished third. In Germany, Kvyat's contemporary Toro Rosso team-mate Alex Albon had seemed set for a podium finish after a great wet-weather drive. And overall these Toro Rosso STR14s were regular lower order points scorers.

The car's original power unit was a Honda RA619H 90-degree V6-cylinder engine, driving through an 8-speed gearbox with carbon-composite main case, longitudinally-mounted, with a hydraulic power shift. The monocoque chassis itself is another sophisticated carbon-composite molding. Front suspension is by composite wishbones with push-rod activated inboard torsion bar springs and dampers. At the rear further carbon-composite wishbones located the road wheels while inboard suspension was actuated by a pull-rod system, with torsion bars and dampers. The braking system featured 6-pot Toro Rosso/Red Bull Technology calibers, clasping advanced and ventilated carbon discs.

While this handsome display car lacks an engine—Honda Motorsports retains them, its rear-end integrity is maintained by a fabricated steel frame which is attached to the forward monocoque fuselage tub and the rear gearbox casing via billet machined components. The pedal box and associated hydraulic components including the brake master cylinders, hydraulic reservoirs and steering rack are all included, and the composite steering column remains in place.

Notably, we understand that this most attractive show car is accompanied by two steering wheels - one race-spec and the other for transport duties - a Toro Rosso protective cover, spare front wing, and two additional sets of wheel rims and tires, plus sockets. As a largely complete machine, one could enjoy it as a hallmark display piece within their collector or endeavor to install a suitable power unit and fulfill one's Formula 1 driver dreams. Amongst such display pieces, those with genuine points-scoring race history are quite rare. Those which carried their drivers to podium-place finishes (first three) are very rare. When rarity dictates desirability, it is evident that this is indeed a most mouth-watering modern-era collector's item.

STR19-04's Race History

Driver: Alex Albon

Spain Grand Prix - 11th
Monaco Grand Prix - 8th
Canadian Grand Prix - DNF
French Grand Prix - 15th
Austria Grand Prix - 15th
British Grand Prix - 12th
German Grand Prix - 6th
Hungarian Grand Prix - 10th

Driver: Pierre Gaslv

Belgian Grand Prix - 9th
Italian Grand Prix - 11th
Singapore Grand Prix - 8th
Russian Grand Prix - 14th
Japanese Grand Prix - 7th
Mexican Grand Prix - 9th
United States Grand Prix - DNF (Classified as 16th)
Brazilian Grand Prix - 2nd
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - 18th

Footnotes

Sold on a Bill of Sale

Saleroom notices

Please note, this is a 2019 Scuderia Toro Rosso STR14, not a STR19, and the chassis number is STR14-04

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