Toyota's Jarno Trulli will be aiming to maintain the momentum from Canada and Indianapolis next weekend, when he heads to Magny Cours for the French Grand Prix.


Trulli finished fourth at the USGP last weekend and was sixth in Montreal, his first points finishes of the year after a miserable start to the season, which saw him fail to score in all eight events prior to that at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.


The Italian now wants to build on their recent improved pace with the TF106B and notch up his third points finish in a row.



Speaking prior to the event, he explained that he is a fan of the event:

"I have very good memories of Magny-Cours and I always enjoy visiting France. French is one of the languages that I speak because of all the time that I have spent working for French teams in Formula 1," he noted. "That means I have a good relationship with the French fans and I expect to have lots of support in the grandstands."

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As for the track itself, he likes that too:

"Magny-Cours is a fun place to drive an F1 car too because it is a technical circuit with pretty much every kind of corner there is. There are fast, sweeping corners along with slow hairpins and also some quick changes of direction at the chicanes. Good handling is crucial because the car has to react well to such a variety of different corners. The track surface is among the smoothest that we run on in the course of the season so we can run lower ride heights than usual.
"Now we must hope to build on our improved pace and come away with another good result."

Last year he managed a fifth place finish at the French GP - and he also scored in 2004, when he came home fourth.