Unlike NASCAR, these really are Toyotas, or at least real Toyota engines, tweaked by Toyota and teram engineers:
The good weather continued at Barcelona for the last day of official winter testing before the start of the 2008 Formula 1 season. Panasonic Toyota Racing used the time available to carry out final preparations for the Australian Grand Prix, now just over a fortnight away. Race drivers Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock worked on fine-tuning set-ups and finishing off their groundwork for the first race. Jarno even set the fastest time of the day during a qualifying run while the track was at its best in the morning. He finished with 83 laps while Timo managed 65 after a more disrupted day. The next time Toyota will be on track with the rest of the F1 grid will be in Melbourne for Friday practice on March 14.
Pos Driver Constructor Time Laps
1 Timo Glock Toyota 1m19.779 96 2 Lewis Hamilton Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1m20.099 73 3 Fernando Alonso Renault 1m20.363 49 4 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 1m20.407 61 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m20.500 85 6 Heikki Kovalainen Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1m20.535 79 7 Kamui Kobayashi Toyota 1m20.577 53 8 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m20.646 88 9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 1m20.758 57 10 Adrian Sutil Force India 1m21.705 71 11 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing 1m22.275 53 12 David Coulthard Red Bull Racing 1m22.581 54 13 Nico Hulkenberg Williams 1m24.023 65 14 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 1m24.873 50