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Jarno Trulli
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Being Toyota's first recruitment of a top driver and Grand Prix winner, Jarno Trulli's move from Renault was big news. It was late during the 2004 season, and Trulli was dropped from Renault's race line-up after a season in which he struggled compared to his team-mate Fernando Alonso, and replaced by Jacques Villeneuve. Soon after, Toyota F1 revealed that Trulli would race for them during the 2005 season and beyond. However, Olivier Panis retired from racing before the year was out, leaving a space in Toyota's race attack, meaning Trulli was promoted rather earlier than anticipated. Qualifying 6th on his Toyota debut in Japan was the start of a competitive run for the team. No points were scored that year, although Trulli comfortably outpaced his team-mate Ricardo Zonta.
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Jarno Trulli is in his 11th season in Formula 1 and his third season at Toyota. Trulli came to prominence in Formula 1 in 1997 when in his first year in the sport he moved from the slow Minardi team to the then fast Prost team as a replacement for another driver in mid-season. It would take until the Monaco Grand Prix of 2004 for the Italian to win a race - but what a race to win. Since then... it has been a rough road for the fast, but sometimes shaky, driver at Toyota.
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Panasonic Toyota Racing endured a frustrating Monaco Grand Prix as Jarno Trulli took the chequered flag in 15th position, one place and 0.9 seconds ahead of team-mate Ralf Schumacher after a race to forget for the team. A difficult qualifying session left Jarno in 14th and Ralf in 20th on the grid, giving both drivers an uphill task in the 78-lap race. That task became harder when they lost ground at the start on the run into St Devote, with Ralf dropping to 22nd and Jarno to 18th. However, Jarno was overtaken illegally by Takuma Sato in the hectic first corner and took back that position soon after. As is traditional at Monaco, traffic proved to be a problem and both drivers found it difficult to improve their positions despite setting some competitive lap times in clean air. The team opted for one-stop strategies and Jarno was first into the pits on lap 47 to switch to the super soft Bridgestones, with Ralf following suit two laps later before a clean run to the chequered flag.
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* Lap 1: Jarno Trulli makes a flying start from his second pole position of the season to beat Michael Schumacher into La Source. Second-row qualifiers Fernando Alonso and David Coulthard ... outsprint the German. Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa collide at La Source, as a result of which Massa loses his front wing, and Panis clips Fisichella. Chaos erupts at Eau Rouge. Takuma Sato spins and provokes a chain-reaction accident that involves Mark Webber, Gianmaria Bruni and Giorgio Pantano. All four retire.
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