No Team Tactics for the Race, Says Trulli

Jarno Trulli does not expect his Renault team to employ tactics to keep the rest of the field behind him in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix after the Italian claimed his maiden pole position.

Trulli will begin from the head of the grid for the first time with Jenson Button, of BAR-Honda, alongside him on the front row. His teammate Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher are behind on the second row.

But Trulli is not pinning his hopes on his Anglo-French outfit imposing team tactics by using Alonso to slow down Schumacher while he controls the pace at the front of the field.

"I don't think it is fair, not fair against me or against Fernando," he said. "Everyone is racing for victory. We all just have to do our best. Maybe the Ferraris haven't got enough pace, you don't know. Sure, tomorrow they will be quicker but we are not going to play any weird strategy to stop anyone else or to stop the Ferrari.

"We just want to race for victory."

Trulli is bidding to end a Monaco Grand Prix pole jinx with the last time the race was won from pole position being in 1998, when Finn Mika Hakkinen won for McLaren, but he is confident.

"I've always been looking for my first victory, now hopefully I will get it," said Trulli, who has a career-best finish of second for the now defunct Prost team in the 1999 European Grand Prix. "It is wonderful to get my first pole here at Monaco - it is the right place to do it from a strategy point of view.

"The car is very competitive in race set-up, very consistent, and we know that we are on the right strategy. Ferrari have still got 78 laps to fight but I am feeling very optimistic for tomorrow."

"It is just a matter of getting out of the first corner without any accident," he said. "Monaco is such a difficult race anything can happen. The start will be extremely important, but it doesn't mean that if you are leading by the first corner then you are going to win the race."