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Toyota missed out on top ten

The Toyota drivers Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli were targeting a top ten qualifying position ahead of Sunday's British Grand Prix. Both drivers though failed to make it into the final qualifying session. Jarno Trulli will start from P14 while team mate Timo Glock will start from P12.

"Following our problems yesterday, when we missed half the day's practice, today was another difficult day," Glock said. "A lot of cars were close together and we just failed to reach Q3 so the running time that we missed probably had an effect. Still, we had quite a good pace this morning and my feeling was that we would be in the top ten. So I don't know why it didn't work out. After today's rain, the track was a bit more green. In those conditions we don't seem to be able to get 100 percent out of the tyres and perhaps that is why we struggled."

Jarno Trulli commented: "I am disappointed because we are out of the top ten and we haven't looked very competitive here. We understood what happened yesterday and these things happen, no problem. But I've struggled a lot this weekend with car balance. Qualifying was not great and the car was bottoming too much in the first sector. That cost me time which I could not recover in the rest of the lap. That is strange because we didn't change the car itself. It's difficult to find the right set-up when the wind changes so much but I went for a wet set-up in case we have a wet race tomorrow. Now I just hope that will pay off and our Sunday will be better."

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