I will knock on everyone’s door to raise some money - Trulli

Toyota's Jarno Trulli will raise money to help the victims of the earthquake in his home region of Abruzzo, Italy. Trulli wants to raise money to rebuild schools and the Italian wants to do everything he can to achieve his goal ... even knock on everyone's door.

Trulli said: "We have probably all seen what happened there and being part of Abruzzo I wanted to do something special. It took a few days before really realising what was going on, because honestly it is a dramatic situation there. Nearly three hundred people died which is not so many compared to what really happened. We don’t have a city or villages anymore; everything has gone, blown away. More than one hundred thousand people have been left with nothing: no houses, no jobs, families. It must be really hard.

I didn’t go back yet because I haven’t had time because of the travelling and work. I will go back just after these two flyaway races. At the same time, I was trying to think what to do and I believe that as I am from Abruzzo and this is an Italian business but everyone around the world knows about the earthquake and because I work around the world, I just wanted to show to everyone or let everyone know what’s going on there. There isn’t much difference between the tsunami and the earthquake in Abruzzo, it’s a dramatic situation and I want to make my contribution.

Eventually, the final target will be to raise money first of all and then at the end of the season see how much we have and try to go there and rebuild schools – everything basically has to be rebuilt. I just want to try really hard. For once in my life, I will probably go and knock on everyone’s door to raise some money."