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Best qualifying result for Toyota at Silverstone

The Toyota F1 team is celebrating its best performance of 2007 after today's qualifying session for the British Grand Prix. Ralf Schumacher posted the 6th quickest lap, his best result of the season, with Jarno Trulli 10th. That means the team will line up with two cars in the top ten of the grid for the first time since April in Malaysia.

Toyota had a successful day of practice to kick off the weekend yesterday and that form continued into qualifying. After the poor weather that has been a feature of the week, the sun finally broke through the clouds at Silverstone today with air temperatures around 20° Celsius. Both drivers made it into Q3 without problems and Ralf made the top six in every session. Now the team will bid to make the most of these positions as it pushes for a strong result in tomorrow's race.

Ralf Schumacher was obviously very happy. He commented after his qualifying session: "This is my best qualifying result of the year so I am happy with what we have achieved. Both the test a fortnight ago and yesterday's practice session went well. The car seems to suit me better here this weekend and I can just do what I want with it so I am happy. We were relatively quick in the race in Magny-Cours so I naturally hope that can continue tomorrow. First we must concentrate on making a good start. I'm on the dirty side of the grid which is not perfect but we will take it from there."

Jarno Trulli said: "To make it into the top ten was a good qualifying result for me considering how things have gone all weekend. I have been struggling with the set-up and I have really found it hard to get hold of the car. We tried to improve the set-up this morning but we didn't succeed. It seems that whatever I tried to do I would be slow. So this was about as much as I could manage today. We are still in a good position for the race so we will see what we can do to improve things for tomorrow."

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