Toyota to blame for Ralf trough - Howett

Toyota’s F1 team president John Howett has thrown a metaphorical arm around his beleaguered race driver Ralf Schumacher.

Mounting media speculation is predicting the imminent decline of former grand prix winner Schumacher’s formula one career, as he struggles at the wheel of the TF107 car.

Those rumours were not helped on Monday, when Toyota technical director Pascal Vasselon admitted in an official press document that Schumacher’s “general grip” problem at the recent Monaco grand prix was due to “no obvious limitation of one parameter” of the 2007 machine.