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Toyota show strong start at the Nurburgring

The Toyota team will try hard to show a strong performance at the Nurburgring. The team's factory in Cologne is only an hour's drive away. The team was able to start their weekend well with Schumacher and Trulli in fifth and sixth in today's second free practice session.

Ralf Schumacher commented on his two free practice sessions: "We had a good two sessions today. It's good to be back driving in front of my home fans again and I am pretty happy with the work we did, and especially with our lap times. In the last few races we have changed a few things with our set-up and that has helped. My pace was quite competitive in France and Silverstone, even if the results were not there, and that seems to apply to this circuit as well.

"We worked on the car set-up, as well as understanding the tyres on this track, and everything went well. The team has a lot of information now, more than we expected because the rain stopped earlier than predicted, which gave us the chance to do a few more laps than usual. We are pushing very hard and my target for tomorrow is to get into Q3 again, which will give us the opportunity to fight for points. We will work on the car before qualifying and I am feeling optimistic."

Jarno Trulli commented on his day at the Nurburgring: "It was a reasonable session for me. You can see from our lap times that I was really competitive today. It's a shame that in the end I had traffic on my quickest lap in P2, so I lost a bit of time - otherwise I could have been even faster and further up the results. But nevertheless it is important that we are going in the right direction and making progress."

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