Toyota’s Pascal Vasselon has excused Jarno Trulli for crashing under safety car conditions in the Canadian grand prix.
The Japanese squad’s chassis boss said on Tuesday that Italian Trulli, 32, was “concerned” throughout the race about Robert Kubica, after his dice for position with the BMW-Sauber driver led to the Pole’s horror shunt.
“(Jarno) had seen the medical car out for a long time,” Vasselon said of Trulli, who visited Kubica in Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur hospital on Sunday evening.
Trulli later emerged from a pit stop and drove straight into the tyre barrier at turn one.
Vasselon continued: “It’s perhaps understandable that his thoughts were elsewhere, and the whole team wishes Robert well.”
