Scuderia Toro Rosso chief Franz Tost has revealed t꧒he team took lessons over the winter to aid communication with new Formula 1 engine p💙artner Honda.

Toro Rosso linked up with Honda fo🌳r the 2018 season after the Japanese manufacturer split with McLaren following three turbulent seasons working together.

The new Toro Rosso-Honda STR13 made a solid start to testing, completing the second-highest number of laps for an🍌y car in the morning session in Barcelona on Monday.

Tost spoke warmly of the early stages of the new partnership between Toro Rosso and Honda before revealing the team had also taken lessons to makಞe communication easier.

“I must say we have a really fantastic working relationship with Honda. We had very busy months, as you can imagin𓄧e, i😼n November, December, January and now February, and there were absolutely no problems,” Tost said.

🦄“From the communications side, we at Toro Rosso started to prepare ourselves for this cooperation. We had a couple of lessons in Faenza on how to communicate with Japanese companies and with Honda.

“I think this was very useful also to get an idea of the way they th🍷ink, because it’s a completely different cultu🐻re.

“These seminars got very positive results and we have a really good 🧜relationship with Honda.”

Toro Rosso is the sole ♒partner for Honda through the 2018 season, with To🅘st believing it to offer a big boost as the team enjoys effective works status.

“It was a completely new start for Toro R🌸osso,” Tost said.

“As you can imagine, we’re ki𝓀nd of a works team, we are the only team that is working with Honda and this opened a lot of possibilities, especially on the technical side with the engine installation and so on.

“For Toro Rosso, it’s a big advantage to work to🔥gether with such a big company as Honda is.”