Panasonic Toyota Racing came away from the United States Grand Prix with three points after a fine performance by Jarno Trulli and the team delivered his best result of the season with sixth place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. On another sunny day, with track temperatures at 50°C and air temperature at 35°C, Jarno made a strong start and moved up to seventh in the scramble for the first turn.

Unfortunately, Ralf Schumacher's race ended at the first corner when he was involved in a collision with David Coulthard. Ralf's car suffered damage to the front left suspension and he was unable to rejoin. Jarno was able to pull away from the chasing pack at a steady rate during his first stint and he made his first pit stop on lap 31.

Ralf Schumacher: "That was a disappointing way to end my race after a pretty good qualifying. Obviously going into the first corner it was very crowded and everyone is on cold tyres. Going into the first corner I braked quite calmly but my tyres locked a bit. David came around from the outside and we crashed into each other. I think it was a racing incident." "It is disappointing but these things can happen easily in that kind of situation at the start of a race when everyone is trying to gain positions. It is unfortunate and a bit unlucky for us because we could have had a good race. I will be testing at Silverstone on Tuesday so now I fly directly to England to prepare for the French Grand Prix, where I hope for a better result."

Tadashi Yamashina - Vice Chairman:

"To finish in sixth place in the last race of Tsutomu Tomita's era as Chairman and Team Principal before he leaves at the end of June is fantastic. I am ecstatic. Jarno drove a fantastic race but the result is also due to a great job from the all the team. What happened to Ralf can't be helped but we expect he will have a better result in the next race. It was just a normal incident at the start of a race. It was a weekend which was quite difficult at the start because of the low grip we experienced but this is a good result."

 

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time
1	L. Hamilton	McLaren	1:31:09.965
2	F. Alonso	McLaren	+ 1.518
3	F. Massa	Ferrari	+ 12.842
4	K. Räikkönen	Ferrari	+ 14.422
5	H. Kovalainen	Renault	+ 41.402
6	J. Trulli	Toyota	+ 1:06.703
7	M. Webber	Red Bull	+ 1:07.331
8	S. Vettel	BMW	+ 1:07.783
9	G. Fisichella	Renault	+ 1 laps
10	A. Wurz	Williams	+ 1 laps
11	A. Davidson	Super Aguri	+ 1 laps
12	J. Button	Honda	+ 1 laps
13	S. Speed	Scuderia Toro Rosso	+ 2 laps
14	A. Sutil	Spyker F1	+ 2 laps
15	C. Albers	Spyker F1	+ 3 laps
Did not finish
16	N. Rosberg	Williams	+ 5 laps
17	V. Liuzzi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	+ 5 laps
18	N. Heidfeld	BMW	+ 17 laps
19	T. Sato	Super Aguri	+ 60 laps
20	R. Barrichello	Honda	+ 72 laps
21	D. Coulthard	Red Bull	+ 72 laps
22	R. Schumacher	Toyota	+ 73 laps

Photos from Canadian GP