Name: Toro Rosso

The continued efforts of Scuderia Toro Rosso are proof that, in Formula One, it's money that really counts.

With cash being plugged into the team thanks to part-owner Red Bull, STR are already taking leaps and bounds - by their standards - up the order.

Although Toro Rosso began their F1 career as Minardi in 1985, they were purchased by Red Bull at end of the 2005 season with the intention of running it as their B-team.

The team was also handed a new moniker - Italian for 'Red Bull' - with former grand prix driver Gerhard Berger also coming on board after he bought a stake from Red Bull boss and friend Dietrich Mateschitz.

STR entered the 2006 F1 season with an unproven line-up of Vitantonio Liuzzi and Scott Speed - both drivers with either little or no F1 experience.

Running what were in effect 2005 Red Bull chassis with rev-limited V10 Cosworth engines, STR made a strong start when Speed finished eighth in Australia.

However, the point they earned was taken away from them after the American was deemed to have overtaken David Coulthard under waved yellow flags.

It was a major disappointment for both the team and the driver who went back to battling the Midland and Super Aguris out on the race-track.

However, armed with reliable cars and also periodic moments of speed, STR managed to challenge their 'senior' team on occasion, with Liuzzi taking their first point with an eighth place at the United States Grand Prix.

Although it was the team's only point of the season, it did mean that in one year STR had achieved more than Minardi had done in the previous three seasons.

Now armed with Ferrari power and an STR02 chassis to all intents an purposes identical to Red Bull's Adrian Newey-designed RB3, Toro Rosso expected improvement in 2007.

The season got off to a bad start, however, as retirements and crashes from Speed and Liuzzi marred the team's campaign.

The low point came in July at the European Grand Prix, when, in pouring rain, both drivers spun off the Nurburgring track on the same corner and on the same lap.

An alleged physical altercation between Speed and team boss Franz Tost resulted in the American subsequently being axed from the team and BMW Sauber test driver Sebastian Vettel being called up to replace him.

Vettel's arrival sparked an upsurge in the team's performances as the German youngster pushed Liuzzi throughout the remaining seven grands prix.

Toro Rosso eventually claimed their first points of the season when Vettel finished fourth and Liuzzi sixth in the Chinese Grand Prix.

In 2008 Vettel remains at Toro Rosso where he'll partner Champ Car Champion Sebastien Bourdais.