F1: Toyota To Retain Glock, Part With Trulli

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F1: Toyota To Retain Glock, Part With Trulli

Toyota looks set to part ways with its Italian driver Jarno Trulli at the end of the season...

SPEED Staff / GMM | Posted August 22, 2009 Valencia (ESP)

A report of the German news agency SID said Toyota is likely to retain Timo Glock (Right), but its relationship with 35-year-old Jarno Trulli (Left) is near the end. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Toyota looks set to part ways with its Italian driver Jarno Trulli at the end of the season.

A report of the German news agency SID said that while the Japanese team is likely to retain Timo Glock, its relationship with 35-year-old Trulli is near the end.

"We have an option on Timo. It is very probable that we will take it up, however we will separate with Jarno Trulli," Toyota president John Howett is quoted as saying in the German language report.

He praised Glock, 27, as "very, very good" in the races but said he must work on his qualifying form. "We will do everything to help him," Howett said.

As for Trulli, who is Toyota's top points scorer in 2009, Howett explained: "We have spoken with him, however up to now we have reached no agreement."

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