In the most recent edition of the run for the world championship of Formula 1 open wheel racing, Canada and the track at Montreal proved to be a study in preparation and strong driving for Toyota.
The drive's put on by both Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli of Panasonic Toyota Racing was quite impressive once one realizes that Glock qualified in position 13 and Trulli at 14. In F1, to be able to score any points at the end of the race from these starting positions is very rare especially since in F1, only the top eight finishing positions are awarded points.
It did not hurt that during the race, four cars that qualified ahead of them found trouble on the track and had to bow out due to accidents, but this does not completely explain how Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli were able to move up nine and seven positions respectively.
On track performance, incidents, strategy, and off-track preparation all combine into a perfect storm of performance and this video produced by Toyota [link at source] gives insight to a form of car preparation beyond the wind tunnel.
... notes from The EDJE
Original Story:
http://theedje.blogspot.com/2008/06/f1s-....
The drive's put on by both Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli of Panasonic Toyota Racing was quite impressive once one realizes that Glock qualified in position 13 and Trulli at 14. In F1, to be able to score any points at the end of the race from these starting positions is very rare especially since in F1, only the top eight finishing positions are awarded points.
It did not hurt that during the race, four cars that qualified ahead of them found trouble on the track and had to bow out due to accidents, but this does not completely explain how Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli were able to move up nine and seven positions respectively.
On track performance, incidents, strategy, and off-track preparation all combine into a perfect storm of performance and this video produced by Toyota [link at source] gives insight to a form of car preparation beyond the wind tunnel.
... notes from The EDJE
Original Story:
http://theedje.blogspot.com/2008/06/f1s-....
