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Toyota has plenty to do in Bahrain
15 February 2007The Toyota team is next scheduled to have two weeks of testing at Bahrain beginning on February 22. This will be the first time that Toyota has tested at the circuit in the Middle East and it should give the team valuable warm weather data as it continues its preparations for the 2007 season.
The team completed its test at Barcelona on Wednesday with Ralf Schumacher and Franck Montagny at the wheel. On Ralf's first visit to the modified version of the Circuit de Catalunya, he tried out the new seamless shift gearbox for the first time and worked on set up for most of his day. Franck spent the morning doing long runs to check the car's behaviour with different solutions. Late in the morning he stopped out on the track due to a gearbox control problem. The team took the chance to carry out a routine engine change and he returned to the track shortly after lunch.
"For Ralf this was the first chance to run with the new gearbox and to see the new modified circuit here in Barcelona," said chief engineer Dieter Gass. "Because he only had one day of running here, he was focusing mainly on set-up work and not doing too many long runs. Franck suffered a gearbox control problem this morning so that meant he didn't do all the running that we had planned. He was doing long runs and had already been interrupted by quite a few red flags, which was a pity. But then we created one of our own so we can't really complain. Still, we will get some data from the interrupted long runs that he did."
"Overall in these three days we have worked very efficiently on the reliability of the car and we've gained some useful information on the car set-up," he added. "On the other hand we've also seen that we have a lot of work to do before Melbourne so we will continue to push hard."
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