1️⃣4️⃣ years ago today, Toyota's F1 team ran first and second in the BahrainGP, so what happened next? 🤔 Get the full story 👇
finishing third and fourth in Australia after a rear wing issues led to pitlane starts for both. They matched that result in Malaysia.
This time life was much harder over one lap, in part due to engine temperature issues in the Bahrain heat, a legacy of the hurried packaging of the Mercedes engine into what was a Honda-bred chassis. As Button speculated, Toyota had been betting on a three-stop strategy, which would have justified the low fuel loads at the start. But some last-minute concerns over coming out in traffic caused the team to switch to a more common two-stopper, and as part of the change it was decided to use up the prime tyres in that stint. As we all saw, it didn’t work.
“That helped us out enormously,” said Button. “Because obviously Vettel was stuck behind Trulli. If Vettel had got past him, I don’t know what the race outcome would have been, but I think our pace was very, very similar on both tyres. Third place seemed like a poor outcome from pole, while it was even worse for Glock, who had tumbled from second on the grid to a lowly seventh.
“Then it was different because we had to extend the second stint, and then the prime was the logical choice. Jarno did a very good job. Considering the situation he did the best he could.”One strange aspect was that the car weights clearly suggested that Trulli would stop two laps later than his team mate, but in the end, he only eked out one extra lap. Even the team didn’t understand that one.
“It’s a struggle to be really positive. Because we should have won this race! We had possibilities to win this race, so we can only be disappointed...”In the heat of battle, Toyota had made the wrong call. It seemed that the first win was only a matter of time, but it never came. There were to be no more poles, and while Glock would earn a second in Singapore and Trulli would repeat that in Japan, by then the writing as already on the wall, and plans to close the team were in hand.
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