Toyota has re-signed...
Toyota has re-signed Jarno Trulli for the next three years. The Italian rewarded his team by scoring his best finish of the season, coming home fourth. His drive was all the more remarkable as he managed it after starting from the pitlane. The team had to change the 31-year-old’s rear suspension after it collapsed during qualifying. Trulli said: “Considering everything that’s gone wrong for me this year, it’s great to have a day when everything goes right.”
UK traffic levels rose...
UK traffic levels rose by 1.2 per cent for the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2005. Car traffic was unchanged, but light vans went up by eight per cent and heavier trucks by three per cent. M-way traffic rose by one per cent.
IT"S official - men are more likely to put the wrong fuel in their car than women. Fourteen per cent admitted doing so compared with 10 per cent of females. Nearly half of 4,000 drivers quizzed by Green Flag said they had run out of fuel at some time.
FA Cup winner Peter Crouch has scored with a new Santa Fe, given to him by Hyundai. He said: "It"s perfect. At six foot seven, it"s hard to squeeze into sports cars." The firm will also give 11 buyers their money back if England win the World Cup.