By Luke Marc Carlile-Stanton
October 5 2006

Jarno Trulli attended the Thursday pre-race weekend press conference at Suzuka earlier on today. Luke Marc Carlile-Stanton picks out Jarno's quotes from the conference.

Q: Jarno, a best of fifth here, what do you feel about this circuit, this race?
Jarno TRULLI: Well, obviously Suzuka is a very nice challenging circuit. I like it very much. It’s our home race for Toyota so we expect to be challenging strongly, and I hope to do a good weekend.

Q: But the last few races haven’t been fantastic for you, however.
JT: Monza, wasn’t too bad but obviously I made a mistake over the tyre choice in Turkey and the last Grand Prix was a bit unfortunate for both drivers because the weekend started wrongly from qualifying when we had a red flag at the wrong moment, otherwise we would both have been in quite easily. From that time on, it was very difficult to recover from the back, because we were stuck behind Coulthard all the time, all the race and then when we gambled on dry tyres, that was obviously a big risk. We took it but it didn’t work.

Q: So you feel that you should have been in the points?
JT: We cannot really judge the last race. In Monza I finished seventh. We were very competitive in Turkey. Ralf’s tyre choice was good and he was very competitive, so in the end I believe that the team has got good potential but sometimes we don’t use the full potential during the weekend because we still have to manage to get the right choice.

Q: (Niki Takeda – Formula PA) Any thoughts on the last Suzuka?
JT: It has been a pleasure to come to Suzuka for so many years I have really enjoyed it and I hope to enjoy again a good race this season and then we move on to Fuji and we will see next year. I hope we can have a lot of fun there and the public will be as many as we have here.

Q: (James Allen – ITV Sport) Jarno both cars have got new engines here – is there anything special in this engine?
JT: Yes I have changed the engine for this race and it is a little step forward. Just a few things that we hope will improve reliability.