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Toro Rosso: no compromise over new car

Scuderia Toro Rosso have insisted that they do not intend to compromise on their plans to race a 'customer car' this season, despite the threat of legal action

The Italian outfit are due to unveil their new STR2 at Barcelona in Spain later today, with the design being a development version of Adrian Newey's RB3.

Although their plans have drawn controversy, with both Williams and Spyker threatening to go to court, team principal Franz Tost has insisted that his team are not intending to back down over the issue.

"We think we are within the regulations," he said. "So it is not necessary to make any compromise. Although I don't know what compromise we can make because either you are within the regulations or outside the regulations."

Tost said that his team would be willing to battle their corner in court if it got that far.

"If this is the case (and it went to court), then we have to fight it out," he explained. "We, Toro Rosso cannot influence if they decided to go to court. I don't think it is good for all of us, but at the end we have to accept it."

He added: "The position has not changed. Before we decided what to do for 2007 we very carefully studied the regulations with lawyers and with the FIA together. And then the interpretation from our side is quite clear, that we do not run the customer car.

"We have our own car, which is, in many aspects, totally different to the Red Bull car, and the design of the car is being made by Red Bull Technology, together with Adrian Newey, in co-operation with the designers of Toro Rosso. Therefore I think we are within the regulations.

When asked whether his team would be happy to accept not scoring constructors' championship points this year, as Williams and Spyker have suggested, Tost replied: "No, no. No way."

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