His stint in charge has been beaten among current bosses only by Christian Horner, who started at Red Bull a year earlier, and while the Italian outfit hasn’t matched the sister team in terms of results, that was never the intention.
Its focus has always been to train young drivers, and as such it helped to create two world champions for Red Bull in the form of Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen. Other graduates have either established themselves in F1 or moved on and found consistent success in Formula E or WEC.
The Italian GP wins achieved by Vettel in 2008 and Pierre Gasly 12 years later are the obvious standouts in statistical terms.
However, Tost himself prefers to consider the bigger picture rather than individual results, having succeeded in …