Jarno Rules Out Podiums in 2008
By Luke Marc Carlile-Stanton
February 13 2008
Italian Toyota F1 Ace Jarno Trulli has given a frank estimation on Toyota's realistic targets for the 2008 Season. After a back-to-back test in Bahrain along with Ferrari, Jarno believes it is unrealistic to expect the Toyota team to be able to fight for podium finishes in the 2008.
Quoted by Autosprint magazine Trulli believes it is hard to see Toyota breaking into the Podium mould that was dominated by the Mclaren and Ferrari cars in 2007. "Let's make this clear: in this situation, not only the Ferraris will be unmatchable for us, but also the McLarens, So, talking about getting some podiums is completely unrealistic," Trulli said. However Trulli's comments did come with a hint of good news for Toyota fans by admitting that the TF108 is a big step forward on it's 2007 predesscor and has the belief that the Cologne based squad are in a better position for the up-coming season. "Compared to 2007 the car has improved a lot in overall reliability and in the performance on worn tyres, which had been our main problem," he said. Jarno also believes that while Podiums finishes are out of the question, the team can make the step forward to challenege on a race by race basis in the heart of the BMW-Sauber, Renault and Williams battle. "Considering the problems BMW seem to suffer, maybe for us there's the chance of getting close to the second level teams like Renault, BMW and Williams, but it's impossible to do more than that'' Meanwhile up at the front, Jarno believes that Ferrari are way ahead of anyone else and have won the 2008 World Championship before the Season has even started. "Looking at the behaviour of the Ferraris on the track is obviously depressing. They can brake wherever they want to but most of all they can accelerate wherever they want to, while I always have to be careful with getting on the power, which is not managed by traction control anymore. In my opinion, even compared to McLaren, they (Ferrari) are at least half a second faster per lap. Good night then, I feel the championship is already over even before the start," Trulli said.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:02:13:14:30:42 by ~°¤[±]f105 ¤°~.
Or maybe some kind of a strategy on their part ......just wondering this is the first time I heard of it after seeing the cars performing well in testing unlike in the past wherein the cars are performing below par in testing as well in races and ironically they will still say good things for the succeeding races ...
TOYOTA moving forward > > >
" we are closer to the cars at the front of the grid."
Jarno
"Poduim is out of reach"
what is it toyota?
and honda have given up on the top 10 teams in front of them
Toyota 4ever
