Toro Rosso role too good to turn down, says Booth


SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Toro Rosso offered him a role he could not refuse and former Manor Marussia principal John Booth is back in Formula One as the Red Bull-owned team's director of racing.

"I was just so exhausted at the end of last year I felt I couldn't even look at another racing car in my life," the 61-year-old Briton, kitted out in his new team uniform, told Reuters in the Russian Grand Prix paddock on Saturday.

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