This weekend will see Jarno Trulli start his home race for the 15th time in his Formula One career. Trulli insists it won’t be his last, but with Lotus yet to make an announcement on their 2012 driver line-up that hasn’t stopped the media bombarding him with questions about his future.
Trulli has had a tough season. It started promisingly enough with a 13th place in Australia – still Lotus’s best position this year – and on paper his race results have been superior to Kovalainen’s. Unfortunately that is far from the whole story.