"The news came as a big shock," said Trulli. "I knew nothing about it. I know it's not nice to come here and not be working alongside your usual team mate. It's not nice for anyone to lose their seat midway through a championship, and particularly just before their home Grand Prix. I never noticed any friction between Heinz and the team and that is why I am totally surprised at what has happened. From my point of view I could see nothing wrong.

"I've yet to speak Heinz-Harald but that's deliberate," he added. "I know it's a hard situation for him and I don't want to get involved. I don't want to ask him the reasons now because he needs to sort out the situation with the team."

Despite the lacklustre recent run of results for the Silverstone-based squad, and some recent comments from the Italian himself, Trulli says spirits are high in the team.
�To be honest the atmosphere in the team is not as bad as people probably think," he said. "Sometimes we have a competitive car, especially in qualifying. The races have not been so good, but we've had some problems with the car and been unlucky. We have not achieved what we want but the package is there and it is just a case of developing it. We have worked hard all season and the atmosphere has been good. I couldn't feel that anything was wrong.

"The Jordan team has been working hard, we've had small changes, but there hasn't been a major step forward for this race. We have not achieved what we wanted but the package is there and it is just a case of developing it. We have worked hard all season and the atmosphere has been good.

"I certainly didn't detect anything wrong and I have always seen Heinz doing his job well with everybody. When the news came suddenly yesterday, it was bad and hasn't helped anybody in the team. This weekend is not going to be easy.�

The Italian will make a decision regarding his own future in the next few weeks, but now knows to expect the unexpected.
"I've learnt anything can happen in Formula 1 from one day to the next, so you can never relax. I just now want to concentrate on my race weekend and over the next few weeks we will probably understand what happened."