The source of Toyota's F1 woes?

Currently watching F1, courtesy of Adam's Slingbox media streamer (whee!), and Peter Windsor just interviewed Toyota's pilot Jarno Trulli who was quoted affirming Windsor's comment that the car's aerodynamic development has taken it more "pointy" and that's not to Jarno's liking.

Arithmetic 101: if you have two pilots, one of them (Trulli) tends to outqualify and outperform the other, better-paid driver (Ralf Schumacher) at the beginning of the year, why on earth would you then compromise your entire team by compromising in favour of the weaker driver?

Hypothesis:

  1. Toyota can't afford to not let Ralf drive. Might be in his contract or something
  2. Likewise with "equal treatment" that might be defined in such a way that Ralf had to feel equally comfortable in the car
  3. Trulli does not know how to impose himself on the team. Language trouble, in a German-based team?
Thankfully Ralf is most likely out after this year. It's a joke that the best Japanese-owned team this year is.. Super Aguri ! And that's the team that's struggling with funding too.

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Michel
Team to Barrichello:
Rubens, Jenson is 2 seconds a lap faster, or claiming to be 2 seconds faster
Barrichello:
Don't make me laugh!
Button is a whiner..
Michel
Silly SPEED TV commentators. Davidson just pitted with 30+ laps remaining out of 58, it's a quick 6+ seconds stop, and they think he might not stop again??
LavanyaLea
honda's biggest worries is that they'll finish 2007 behind super aguri, and it's looking more and more likely!!! =D

is speed tv owned by scott speed???

and how dya watch f1 again? wats slingbox?
Michel
Slingbox -- you hook up this box to your TV / cable, and hook it up to your internet connection, and then knowing your box's ID, you can watch it from another computer anywhere on the Internet!

Nah, Speed TV is the American cable channel that focuses on motorsport. Hmm, now to think about it, that means I can watch US Open at home too! Whoa.

Oh yah. If not for the Fisi-Trulli collision, Davidson would have finished in front of Button. And since there are, let's see -- Ferrari, McLaren, BMW, Renault, Toyota, Williams, Red Bull (when the latter is not busy breaking down) that are definitely faster than Honda, I'd say the chance of points are very slim indeed. Yep.

Unless there's a massive first-corner accident, that is.

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