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Toyota hopes for improvement in Malaysia

The Toyota team is hoping to see another improvement in its car's pace at this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix after a test at the Sepang circuit last week. Toyota scrambled to a solitary point in the season-opening race at Albert Park, Melbourne.

"Sepang will be a difficult weekend for all teams because the circuit is hard on every element of the car," said the team's chassis chief Pascal Vasselon. "The high temperatures are very demanding on the cooling package, the tyres and the brakes. In terms of set-up it is quite tricky as there is an interesting mix of slow and high speed corners."

"We will get a better idea in Malaysia of how competitive each team is because Melbourne is historically quite an unusual race in terms of performance," he added. "That is especially true when it comes to tyres. In Malaysia we do not expect to have the kind of warming up problems you usually see in Australia, so this is the first race which will show how the car behaves when the tyres are working well. We did reasonably well in Australia but we want to achieve more and we'll be looking for more performance in Malaysia, where we expect to score more points."

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