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What's happened to Jarno Trulli? (19 posts)

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sbl on tour said 1 year, 11 months ago:

the boys on borrowed time now, it was fair enough going to lotus last year but now they need a charger
I suppose if lotus hadnt come along he would have out on his ear by now, after his efforts with toyota

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Ned Flanders said 1 year, 11 months ago:

Good analysis Dan. It would’ve made a decent article on its own!

A lot of people seem to be saying he should have quit when he left Toyota, but to be fair joining Lotus seemed like a good move at the time. Who honestly thought that midway through their second season they’d still be floundering at the back, several tenths of a second of the bottom of the midfield? I didn’t anticipate the new teams struggling so badly for so long, and presumably neither did he. I suspect he was hoping for points by the second season of their partnership and perhaps podiums by the third, but clearly that’s looking unlikely now.

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Tom L. said 1 year, 11 months ago:

Zadak – I wasn’t aware that Trulli was even in contention for the Ferrari seat. Have you got any source? In any case it wouldn’t have been the right decision; even if he’d performed better than Luca or Fisi, he’d still have been scrabbling around for minor points at best, whereas the Toyota was a solid, regular-points/occasional-podium-scoring car.

Ned – I didn’t really expect the new teams to make more progress than what Lotus have done, but as SBL points out there wasn’t really a better alternative for Jarno at the time. Shame the 2010 Toyota never made it to the grid, who knows how quick it might have been…

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Slr said 1 year, 11 months ago:

I imagine either Trulli is past it, or just not motivated, it’s probably a bit of both. I like him and it would be nice to see him do well.

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