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Toyota happy with early test pace

Toyota was back in action at Silverstone on Tuesday and under-fire driver Ralf Schumacher the surprise pace at the end of the opening day of running. Ralf carried out some qualifying runs, which is where is hot lap came from.

"In general it was a successful day and we made it through everything that we had planned," said Ralf. "We were concentrating on set-up work, primarily targeted at the British Grand Prix. We also looked at some different aero settings and did some qualifying runs. The conditions were very good, particularly in the morning, although the wind picked up in the afternoon. We had one stoppage after lunch while we changed some suspension settings but overall things went well."

Test team manager Gerd Pfeiffer added, "We are spending the week focusing on set-up work for next month's British Grand Prix and today was a positive way to start. This morning went quite well, we did some tyre comparisons and we went through different set-ups. We also did work with a few different aerodynamics settings and we carried out some qualifying runs. All in all we made it through 51 laps before lunch. In preparation for the afternoon session we carried out some changes to the suspension settings and we spent the rest of the day doing some more comparisons. From tomorrow we will have Jarno driving and we hope to make further progress."

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