Malaysian Grand Prix - Free Practice Round-Up
Today's Weather: Hot with sunny intervals, air 28-32C, track
40-47C Toyota's Best Malaysian GP qualifying: 2nd, Jarno Trulli,
2005 Toyota's Best Malaysian GP race result: 2nd, Jarno Trulli,
2005 Take Note: Following Timo Glock's heavy crash in the
Australian Grand Prix, the team flew out a replacement chassis
to Kuala Lumpur as the spare for this weekend's event.
Jarno Trulli (Car 11, Chassis TF108-02)
Summary: Trouble-free sessions, took 6th quickest in P2
P1 10th Best Lap Time: 1m 37.540s (+1.796s) Laps: 24
P2 6th Best Lap Time: 1m 36.493s (+1.438s) Laps: 38
"In general that was a smooth day and I'm pleased with
how things went. We still have some problems to solve on the
car to be more competitive but we made some changes between
P1 and P2 and that made a big difference. It looked better
and we made a good step. Obviously it is still Friday so it
is difficult to judge. But we normally perform pretty well
here so I'm confident that we can bounce back after the disappointment
of Melbourne. The only problem is that the rain can be very
heavy and this weekend's forecast is mixed. I would prefer
a dry race but we will have to deal with whatever weather
comes our way."
Timo Glock (Car 12, Chassis TF108-01)
Summary: No technical problems on his way to 17th in P2
P1 14th Best Lap Time: 1m 37.782s (+2.038s) Laps: 27
P2 17th Best Lap Time: 1m 37.512s (+2.457s) Laps: 35
"The car doesn't feel too bad but I haven't yet got
the most out of the tyres on the first lap. I'm also sliding
a bit too much overall. I'm not sure what the problem is so
we will have to look into that overnight. Thankfully I have
no lasting effects from last week's crash and my hand feels
fine. Our pace was strong last week and I have confidence
in the new car but we still have to work to improve. We are
in a tight group of teams so we have to get everything right
to come away with a strong result."
Dieter Gass, Chief Engineer Race and Test
"This is the kind of Friday I really like. We went through
our programme without any issues on both cars. We also had
a very good exchange of information between the cars on the
set-up work and we gained some interesting results which we
were able to transfer from one car to the other. We collected
all the tyre data that we wanted and Jarno had a very good
long run at the end of the session. Timo is still struggling
to get the best out of the tyres on the first lap but I'm
sure with a careful check on the data tonight we will improve
that. The circuit improved a lot through the day but the new
track surface has not made a big difference. Now we will look
to build on this strong start over the rest of the weekend."
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