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Toyota’s other problem was they were too conservative with race strategy
During the rain shortened Malaysian GP in 2009, Jarno Trulli asked for inters as the rain started to fall, but as he was second, they decided to play it safe and put him on wets. Meanwhile his team mate Glock, who was in the pack, went on inters. The result was Glock got as high as 2nd, which became 3rd on countback, while Trulli dropped to fourth, as his wet tyres wore out too quickly, almost half a minute behind the winner and was left wondering what could have been
In fact one of the few times Toyota rolled the dice, it almost decided the 2008 title!
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