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Kobayashi kept waiting

The Toyota Formula 1 team had hoped for better weather conditions at Circuit de Catalunya on Tuesday. The team completed 57 laps with Jarno Trulli while Kamui Kobayashi only did an installation lap due to the poor weather conditions.

Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya provided a cold, grey setting for the start of this week's running. There was light rain around the circuit at regular intervals throughout the day and temperatures only just made it into double figures.

The Toyota F1 team was planning to carry out comparative work on the TF108's new aerodynamics package. The unsettled weather made that difficult but Jarno Trulli still put in 57 laps. Third driver Kamui Kobayashi had a quieter day's work because limits to mileage and tyres meant there was little point in running in these conditions, obviously a disappointing situation for the Japanese driver.

"That was a short day's work for me," Kobayashi said. "I put in an installation lap this morning and spent the rest of the day waiting for the weather to improve. We have limits on testing mileage so it was decided that we could not use up laps in conditions like these. That's the way testing goes sometimes but at least I have been able to recover fully after a long trip from Indonesia yesterday."

The Toyota F1 team will continue testing on Wednesday, but with Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock in the car.

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