40 Facts About Jarno Trulli

Jarno Trulli regularly competed in Formula One from 1997 to 2011, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, Lotus Racing and Team Lotus.

Jarno Trulli was known for his defensive driving style which allowed him to successfully hold off quicker drivers, sometimes for an entire race.

Jarno Trulli was slated to compete in the 2012 Formula One season, but retired before the season began.

Jarno Trulli is the father of racing driver Enzo Trulli.

Jarno Trulli's parents were motorsport fans and named their son after Jarno Saarinen, the Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion who was killed at Monza in 1973.

Jarno Trulli started racing in karts at an early age; after winning the Karting World Championship in 1991, the Italian karting championship and several other karting championships in different categories up to 1995, Trulli won the German Formula Three Championship in 1996.

In 1997, Jarno Trulli made his debut in Formula One with Minardi.

Jarno Trulli stayed at the Prost team for the next two seasons and eventually scored his first podium in wet conditions at the 1999 European Grand Prix.

Under a long-term contract with his personal manager Flavio Briatore, Jarno Trulli secured a contract with the Anglo-French squad for 2002.

Regardless of Button's improved pace that season, it was Jarno Trulli who stayed at Renault for 2003 to partner promoted test-driver Fernando Alonso.

Jarno Trulli struggled to attain similar results, but did achieve a podium in Germany, his first since leaving Prost.

Mindful of how much Alonso had outperformed him in 2003, Jarno Trulli improved markedly the next year.

Jarno Trulli did not score any points after the French Grand Prix and was consistently off the pace during races.

Jarno Trulli later accused the team of favouring Alonso, but the reasons why his 2004 season deteriorated have never been properly identified.

Jarno Trulli was sacked three races before the end of the season and replaced by 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, despite leading his teammate in the championship at that point.

Jarno Trulli had already agreed to drive for Toyota in 2005, and his early exit from Renault allowed him to take up his new seat for the last two races of the 2004 season, replacing Ricardo Zonta.

In 2006, Jarno Trulli suffered a very poor start to the season.

Jarno Trulli seemed to be outpaced by teammate Ralf Schumacher more often than not, but finally scored his first points of the season when he raced to 6th from 4th on the grid at the Canadian Grand Prix.

Jarno Trulli was racing very well in the season finale at Interlagos, but his car suffered suspension failure in the first 10 laps, a fate which befell his teammate at the same time.

Jarno Trulli scored his first points of 2007 in Malaysia, finishing in 7th place after qualifying 8th.

Jarno Trulli finished the championship in 13th position, collecting only 8 points.

Post season there had been reports that Jarno Trulli's contract was not safe, and that he may have been replaced in the Toyota team for 2008 by Heikki Kovalainen.

In 2008, Jarno Trulli was hoping Toyota would make a big step forward.

Jarno Trulli started the season quite well, with several points scoring finishes, the height of which was a fourth-place finish in Malaysia.

Jarno Trulli then topped that in France by finishing on the podium in 3rd place, holding off the challenge of Heikki Kovalainen and Robert Kubica in the closing laps.

Jarno Trulli finished the 8th in Drivers' Championship standings, collecting 31 points, 4 more than his teammate.

Jarno Trulli holds the record of having started the most Grands Prix before recording a fastest lap.

Jarno Trulli crashed out of the Spanish Grand Prix after being forced off the track at the second corner and being collected by Adrian Sutil, and then had a poor performance in Monaco as the Toyotas qualified on the back row of the grid.

Jarno Trulli finished seventh at the season finale in Abu Dhabi scoring his final points in Toyota F1's last race.

On 14 December 2009, Jarno Trulli was confirmed as one of the newly formed Lotus team's drivers, joining former McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen.

At the launch of the Lotus T127, Jarno Trulli admitted in an interview with Autosport that US F1 and Sauber had been in contact with him.

In late 2009, Jarno Trulli was asked to test a NASCAR stock car in North America for Toyota.

Jarno Trulli continued to drive for Lotus in 2011, with Lotus Racing being renamed Team Lotus.

Jarno Trulli's season started with thirteenth in Australia, before a retirement with a clutch problem in Malaysia.

Jarno Trulli finished each of the next six races, equalling his best season finish of thirteenth in Monaco.

Jarno Trulli finished 14th at both the Belgian Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix, where it was announced that Trulli would be retained for the 2012 season.

Jarno Trulli drove in one pre-season test, but on 17 February 2012 it was announced that Jarno Trulli was replaced by Vitaly Petrov.

Following, Jarno Trulli stated that he was "really proud" to have helped Caterham become a Formula One team.

Jarno Trulli is the co-owner of a vineyard in the Abruzzo region in Italy and produces his own wine.

Jarno Trulli has his own range of Karts named 'Trulli Kart'; Trulli himself was a World Champion at Karting level.