Ted's Indy notebook, View from the garages
Hahahaha - nice one Toyota 
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Toyota
Toyota are the only team to have come out of the US GP fiasco well.
They knew the tyre situation was terminal and knew they couldn't race.
They qualified with three laps worth of fuel in the tank and grabbed the only good publicity going by putting Jarno Trulli on pole.
Kimi Raikkonen actually did the outstanding job of qualifying, being second on the grid with a heavy fuel load, but Toyota nicked all the headlines.
How did they know the tyres were terminal?
Because they now employ Pascal Vasselon, ex-Michelin F1 project manager, who was let go by the French tyre manufacturer at the end of last season, and who is probably now a very relieved man.
He would have told his new team through his contacts that the tyres in question had been made with an inferior batch of materials.
The failures were different from any Michelin had ever seen before. The tyre tread was, in fact, dis-bonding from the casing. It un-bonded. The problem only happened on the heavily-loaded outside left rear tyre and only on the banked section of Turn 13.
But Pascal would also have let his new employers know that this problem would not be related just to the camber and suspension settings of the Toyota, nor would it be simply down to the team running low tyre pressures.
It would happen to everyone. So with that knowledge, they sent Trulli out to grab the pole.
By the way, many at Toyota were bricking it when the idea of installing a chicane took shape on Saturday night. If everyone had raced with a chicane, Jarno would have had to pit on lap two!
BAR-Honda
Jenson Button was coy about the will-they-won't-they-race situation while talking to Martin Brundle on the grid. Indeed he was the only BAR team member saying anything - even if he didn't actually say anything.
The reason we heard nothing from BAR until towards the end of the race was down to the fact that they aren't keen to stick the boot into the FIA given they're still serving a six-month suspended ban from F1's governing body.
I have a feeling they're going to get slapped particularly hard at the World Council next week, which would be unfair. They'd better call that good QC again...
Bridgestone
The 'other' tyre company showed exemplary behaviour throughout the weekend.
While they were quick to refute suggestions from some Michelin teams that it was Bridgestone's veto that was preventing them from racing, they otherwise conducted themselves with considerable restraint.
Which, given the kicking they've had from just about everyone in the paddock these last few months, is admirable.
Their tyres were in great nick throughout the race. Bridgestone make their tyres with thicker sidewalls that don't dis-bond, which meant they could go round Turn 13 as fast as they liked, for as long as they liked.
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