Trulli blames start for poor race

"My race was spoiled at the start," said the Italian, who was starting from eighth place but dropped to 11th before the end of the first lap.

"There was a bit of confusion in the first corner, I think I was touched by a car and I lost three positions. That was it for my race because after that I couldn't do anything to make up the ground.

"From the first lap to the last I tried to push to find a way past Coulthard.

"We were quite close but unfortunately with these cars as soon as you get two lengths behind the other car you just lose grip and start going off. I kept pushing as hard as possible all race but this was as good as we could do today," added the Toyota driver, who finished in 10th.

It was the first time in four races that Trulli failed to score points.

Toyota left Turkey with nothing to show for after Trulli's teammate Timo Glock finished in 13th position, the German claiming he was slowed down by traffic for most of the race.

"The pace of the car was not too bad today but the race was just destroyed by being stuck in traffic," he said. "I made a slow start and I had to avoid the accident with Fisichella and Nakajima. In the first stint I was behind Barrichello and quicker than him but I could not get past.

"After the pit stop Button was on soft tyres while we were on hard tyres that were working well and giving us good performance. Unfortunately at that stage I was being lapped by the leaders and the blue flags made it difficult to challenge.

"All afternoon I had better pace than the cars in front but I wasn't able to show it so this was a disappointing result."