Thread: France'97: Jarno Trulli

France'97: Jarno Trulli

Race #584: 7 April 1996. Grand Prix Of Argentina. Buenos Aires
Pole	Damon hill (Williams FW18) - 1. 30,346 (169,707 km/h)
Best lap	Jean Alesi (Benetton B196) - 1. 29,413 (171,478 km/h)
The winner	Damon hill (Williams FW18) - 1:54. 55,322 (160,013 km/h)

Weekend at Magny-Cours was held in changeable weather, which could not but affect the course of the race. On Sunday afternoon the bright sun shone in the sky, but the prognosis is not excluded. Some teams have chosen dry settings, others preferred to gamble and bet on rain. The audience, as usual, froze in impatience.

Race distance was 72 laps, and we can safely say that the first fifty of them were similar to one another. Riders attacked porebriki in turns, visited boxes, improved average speed-but order comes first remains exactly the same as in the third turn of the first lap.

Ferrari drivers Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine were the odd position in the Quartet's strongest, and Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jacques Villeneuve of the Williams team is even. And no fight and no speech, the gaps were close to 20 seconds.
This picture has not changed in the middle of the zamorosivšij distance selling rain. He walked, but not samečali like his team, whenever installing its drivers the next set of slicks during a pit stop. It seemed simple and very clear. However, the rain over time became stronger and stronger.

The skies finally broke through for a dozen laps to the finish line. Not rain, of course, but it is solid rain. And here, as the saying goes, even stopped being languid. Part of the peloton simply washed off the track, and the rest of the Grand Prix rushed into boxes for intermediate tyres. All but two of the leaders-Schumacher and Frentzen stayed on the track.

As said after Ferrari were setting Michael, intermediate, and although at the beginning of the rain and Schumacher jumped onto the gravel, he was able to return and continue the movement. And the team has closely followed Frentzen to exactly repeat the actions of an opponent and not giving in to him.



As it turned out, raining a barrage was short, because the two Germans were right, stay on slicks, they used the rest got to the finish line, and behind the unfolding a truly epic battle. Not less than poludûhiny athletes competed for the third and subsequent sites, constantly colliding and flying.

More all was Villeneuve: Canadian desperately needed points for the title, because in the final laps he literally rastolkal Jean Alesi and David Coulthard, Ralf Schumacher and then overtook and Eddie Irvine. The finish line was only one rotation, but Jacques without hesitation rushed on the attack-and losing control, twirled on the track!

Eddie coolly finished in the end third and Villeneuve managed to get back on track and slip under the checkered flag for a moment before Alesi.

Interesting. . .

Almost winning the race, Michael Schumacher missed forward otstavavšego before on the circle, his younger brother Ralf. What kind of stupidity, "said Murray Walker. But Ralf, who before was the seventh, only because of the foresight of Michael was able to oltygrat′ position due to another crash rivals in the final turns.

Jarno Trulli

In the previous step in Canada's serious accident and broke the legs of Olivier Panis. Replaced from the Minardi invited the young Jarno Trulli. In the first qualification of driving strong machine he showed excellent sixth time, but a day later, finished the race only tenth. Then no one could not assume that the stars of Karting that statement will be the beginning of a long career ...

Jarno to race was be a pilot-it was named in honor of the Finnish rider Jarno Saarinen, crashed at Monza in front of Trulli's parents a few months before the birth of the baby. Already at the age of nine, the boy acted in professional karting, where over the next decade has won all possible titles, becoming the champion of Italy, Europe and the world.

Way of Trulli in Formula 1 was incredibly short-is that Kimi Raikkonen has something similar. Today's youth, forced to sit for three or four years in the GP2 Series, you can only bite your elbows: in the middle of the 1995 20th Jarno raced in karting, and already in the early spring of 1997 came at the start of his first Grand Prix. In between, he won the German Championship, finished third in formula 3 Macau S.A.R.-and signed a management contract with Flavio Briatore.

He found a fellow countryman in the Minardi. The first races, it became clear that this guy will succeed. His speed has pushed Yukio Kataâmu to complete career, let alone having a quite a sensible car Prost, Jarno moved really quickly. At Hockenheim, the future world champion Jacques Villeneuve, trying to get an Italian, flew off the track, and the Trulli finished fourth. And in Austria, more than half of the Championship debutant was leading the race with a certain detachment, but not sdûžil motor ...

No doubt, the formula 1 got a new star of the first magnitude. And now it was important not to make a mistake with the next step to steadily move upward, and not waste the talent of jerking off. Jarno missed the final three Grand Prix-recovered Panis-and devoted this time to reflect on the future. In the end, they decided to continue their cooperation with Briatore Alain Prost in 1997-m team finished the season sixth Professor.



This was the first mistake. The result was shown on a car, the car still created and own technique Prost in the following two years was not an example of worse. Yes, and refraining from Mugen-Honda engines in favour of national Peugeot did not help. As a result, only two sixth places at two years and spoiled the relationship with the professor. When the incredible rain year 1999 race at Nurburgring Trulli still finished second, Allen called it random luck.

The third command Jarno became Jordan. And again-transition promised great opportunities, but actually everything was not as great. If in 1999-m Heinz-Harald Frentzen driving the yellow cars fought for the title, the 2000-meter runway never even reached the Italian junior one Eddie Jordan. The high point of the two performances for the Irishman was Trulli, probably in second place at the start of the Principality of Monaco Grand Prix in the first season, so one circle of leadership in Malaysia in the second. The same points during this time, there were just 18.

After two misfiring Flavio Briatore didn't want to risk-and ward scored in his team Renault. First year driving machine is still very awry, Trulli on the whole looked somewhat worse Jenson button, and most importantly, has become increasingly appear interesting feature-qualifying racer whenever looked better than in racing. However, it is appropriate to quote and Mike Gascoyne: If you want to know what is actually capable of your machine, put on Saturday behind the wheel of Jarno Trulli.

In 2003-m command came prodigy Fernando Alonso-and utterly defeated the experienced team-mate. The following winter the Italian made important findings and, with seven seasons, somehow managed to find somewhere more reserves and sharply increase.

In the 2004 season the team Renault have already entered as one of the favourites. In the first 10 races, Jarno just just not made it to the finish line. He was third in Spain (having won just the second podium in his career), and most importantly-WINS from pole in the Principality of Monaco, becoming the only person from March to August of that year, was raised at the top of the podium in addition to Michael Schumacher!

Here it is, the long-awaited happiness? But no, the trouble came from which was not expected. Briatore, Trulli who for years, suddenly became the main obstacle on the road to success. Flavio camp rival Fernando Alonso. Despite its youth, has a very negative attitude towards fast teammates in an effort to build a team around him.

The formal reason for the quarrel became the last of the French Grand Prix, when just two turns from the finish in a harmless situation Italian missed on third-place Rubens Barrichello. End that Jarno (which at the time ahead of team-mate on points) have notified that the contract will not be renewed, was charged with the loss of motivation and ran out the door before the end of the Championship.

Because in 2005, when Alonso raced to the title, Trulli was reflecting on the vicissitudes of fortune, dressed in red-and-white jumpsuit Toyota. Telling the truth, it was his most successful selection of the team for his entire career. The first two races of the Italian started the second, in the top five three times visited the podium, and in Indianapolis brought the Japanese the first in the history of the pole (that start to go out because of the tire scandal).

But then the team left Gascoigne and went down. Two years of good qualifications and not the most successful racing Drivers made the most experienced rider in the peloton, but it was already clear that the career is moving toward sunset.

2008 and 2009 seasons of the year were for the Italian a kind of Renaissance. The Toyota is finally debugged workflows, izbavavšis′ of unnecessary bureaucracy, and the case went up the Hill. In the first of those seasons Jarno ten times earned points and climbed the podium in France, and the second began with the bright Australian Grand Prix where started from boxes and finished third!

Then there were the pole and third in Bahrain and was the economic crisis, forced the Japanese team first cut consumption to modernize machinery, and after the collapse and a costly program in formula 1. Jarno was over 35 years, and in the Paddock was chock-full of hungry young pilots presentations with big logos on all visible areas.

He held talks with Sauber, but ended up in a team (to avoid confusion) we'll call Caterham. The outcome of her performances are well known: by inviting the two winners of the Grand Prix, the Anglo-Malay pickled for their two seasons at the end of the second ten. It was then in the eyes of those lively ended definitively Jarno sparks that were so visible in 1997 all-m.

When in summer 2011 on Trulli was asked to skip one race to give to Karunu Čandhoku, he did not give up. And in early February 2012-go, realizing that the new Caterham rides just as sad as the previous two, quietly vacated the cockpit to Vitaly Petrov and retired in their own vineyards.

But all is not excluded-in a couple of years we will see once again the Italian. His experience and talent will surely be in demand in touring competitions or endurance racing. History knows many examples when this second career was provided where better first.