Franz Tost: a leader who launched champions

F1: Beyond The Grid

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Leisure, Sports, Technology, Automotive

4.8 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

He’s the second longest-serving Team Principal on the 2023 Formula 1 grid, but after 18 years in charge of AlphaTauri and Toro Rosso, Franz Tost is hanging up his pitwall headphones.

Ahead of his final race in Abu Dhabi, Tost sits down with Tom Clarkson to talk about the highs and lows of leading the team from its inception.

Hear about Franz’s, sometimes challenging, relationship with senior team Red Bull Racing, their sensational Grand Prix wins at Monza in 2008 and 2020, and how he helped launch the careers of multiple World Champions, Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.

Plus, the Austrian tells Tom which of the 17 drivers he’s worked with have impressed him the most and his five stages of development for rookies.

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0:32.0	At the end of 2023, Formula One is saying goodbye to one of its longest serving team principals.
0:39.0	It was my dream to lead a Formula One team. I was not afraid to go there and I was looking forward, I was
0:46.7	optimistic and it was a hell of fun to do this. I met so many people, some of them will think fortunately this idiot is away
0:56.1	Maybe some of them will think he was good. I don't know and to be honest I even don't care
1:02.1	Frans Tost has been in charge of Alpha Towery since the beginning,
1:06.0	when the team was known as Tora Rosso.
1:09.0	With the remit of redying drivers to win for Red Bull Racing,
1:12.0	Franz helped launch the F1 careers of world
1:14.9	champion Sebastian Vettle and the man who's currently tearing up the history
1:19.6	books Max Verstappen.
1:21.3	When we brought into Formula One, I remember back some of your colleagues came to me and said,
1:28.0	you are totally crazy.
1:29.0	How can you take someone?
1:30.0	He even doesn't have a driver license, yeah?
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