"I don't want to spend one more second talking about Scott Speed, " he said.

BBC: Toro Rosso keep Vettel for 2008

The move follows the team's decision to take 20-year-old as a replacement American Scott Speed, who was sacked after the European Grand Prix.

BBC: Toro Rosso keep Vettel for 2008

Last month they dropped American Scott Speed in favour of German Sebastian Vettel with immediate effect, and now Bourdais will replace Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi.

BBC: Bourdais to join Toro Rosso in F1

"An F1 car is like a fighter jet the technology, the G-force, the quickness, " said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar.

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This consequence as led to speculation by science fiction authors Joe Haldeman and Orson Scott Card that people could travel in spaceships at near-light speed for what to them would be only days or weeks, but would be centuries back on Earth.

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