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Autosport: The Supremely Gifted Artist

Mark Hughes sees Jarno Trulli as a supremely gifted artist, exceptionally skilled in driving devastatingly fast when everything aligns right with his perspective. It's his gift, but it's also his undoing

Autosport Magazine Dec 13, 2006, 1:17 PM

With an excellent, though sadly thwarted, run at Monaco, Jarno Trulli's 2006 season showed signs of life for the first time. If it was going to happen anywhere, it was always going to be here. Monte Carlo, with its ultimate demand for precision and, just as importantly, full commitment to precision, is tailor-made to Jarno's very individualistic approach.

Not only does he have a huge natural talent, he "fears failure less than the others" (his words), as he explained in an interview with our sister publication F1 Racing. This is a fascinating concept, and it tallies so well with trackside observations and apparent anomalies in his performances. At its most fundamental level, failure for a racing driver is being slow. But no-one in F1 is slow. That fear doesn't really apply.