Jarno
Trulli

Jarno Trulli was born in Pescara on 13 July 1974. He began in karting at an early age, won the Karting World Championship in 1991 and took several more karting titles up to 1995. In 1996 he won the German Formula Three Championship.

He made his Formula One debut with Minardi in 1997. After seven races he took over the Prost seat of the injured Olivier Panis, finished fourth in Germany and led in Austria until his engine failed. He stayed with Prost until 1999 and scored his first podium in the wet at the 1999 European Grand Prix. He drove for Jordan in 2000 and 2001 without a podium, then moved to Renault.

At Renault he reached the podium in Germany in 2003. In 2004 he won the Monaco Grand Prix from pole position, his only victory. He finished sixth in the championship, his best final position. Before the season ended he switched to Toyota and drove the last two races of the year for them.

He stayed with Toyota until 2009. In 2005 he took the team's first pole position at Indianapolis, but he and most of the grid did not start the race. In 2008 he finished third in France and ended the championship ninth. In 2009 he crossed the line third in the season opener but was dropped to 12th by a time penalty, then regained third place when Lewis Hamilton was disqualified. In Bahrain he started from pole, finished third and set the only fastest lap of his career. He was second in Japan and seventh at the Abu Dhabi finale, Toyota's last Formula One race.

In 2010 and 2011 he drove for Lotus Racing and then Team Lotus alongside Heikki Kovalainen. He was due to continue in 2012 but left the team before the season began. In all he started 252 races, won one, reached the podium 11 times and took four pole positions. In the inaugural Formula E season of 2014-15 he raced for his own team, Trulli GP. His son Enzo is also a racing driver.

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