Poor Toyota F1 qualifying results in GP Japan (Fuji speedway, toyota's turf)

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09-28-07 | 11:35 PM

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Poor Toyota F1 qualifying results in GP Japan (Fuji speedway, toyota's turf)

i thought toyota would do much better this time after Trulli did quite well at Spa

for maybe toyota just doesnt have a proper setup for wet?

Ralf Schumacher got into an accident with Sato in Q2 so did not make it into Q3

Trulli finished 14th in qualifying

looks like another disappointing season for Toyota since they cant even prove themselves on their home turf

here are the rest of the qualifying results
http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/784/6450/

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Pos  	No  	Driver  	Team  	Q1	Q2	Q3  	Laps
1 	2 	Lewis Hamilton 	McLaren-Mercedes 	1:25.489	1:24.753	1:25.368 	30
2 	1 	Fernando Alonso 	McLaren-Mercedes 	1:25.379	1:24.806	1:25.438 	27
3 	6 	Kimi Räikkönen 	Ferrari 	1:25.390	1:24.988	1:25.516 	29
4 	5 	Felipe Massa 	Ferrari 	1:25.359	1:25.049	1:25.765 	29
5 	9 	Nick Heidfeld 	BMW 	1:25.971	1:25.248	1:26.505 	30
6 	16 	Nico Rosberg 	Williams-Toyota 	1:26.579	1:25.816	1:26.728 	33
7 	7 	Jenson Button 	Honda 	1:26.614	1:25.454	1:26.913 	31
8 	15 	Mark Webber 	Red Bull-Renault 	1:25.970	1:25.535	1:26.914 	29
9 	19 	Sebastian Vettel 	STR-Ferrari 	1:26.025	1:25.909	1:26.973 	33
10 	10 	Robert Kubica 	BMW 	1:26.300	1:25.530	1:27.225 	33
11 	3 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	Renault 	1:26.909	1:26.033		17
12 	4 	Heikki Kovalainen 	Renault 	1:27.223	1:26.232		17
13 	14 	David Coulthard 	Red Bull-Renault 	1:26.904	1:26.247		21
14 	12 	Jarno Trulli 	Toyota 	1:26.711	1:26.253		21
15 	18 	Vitantonio Liuzzi 	STR-Ferrari 	1:27.234	1:26.948		22
16 	11 	Ralf Schumacher 	Toyota 	1:27.191	no time		10
17 	8 	Rubens Barrichello 	Honda 	1:27.323			10
18 	17 	Alexander Wurz 	Williams-Toyota 	1:27.454			10
19 	23 	Anthony Davidson 	Super Aguri-Honda 	1:27.564			10
20 	20 	Adrian Sutil 	Spyker-Ferrari 	1:28.628			10
21 	22 	Takuma Sato 	Super Aguri-Honda 	1:28.792			10
22 	21 	Sakon Yamamoto 	Spyker-Ferrari 	1:29.668			10

will Lexus show their LF-A tomorrow?

09-29-07 | 12:11 AM

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The conditions were horrible though. Did you see all the water on the track?

09-29-07 | 03:08 AM

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horrible for everyone else too....

09-29-07 | 04:25 AM

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Pathetic.

with all the money they spend, how can they not get ahead?

09-29-07 | 08:58 AM

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Formula 1 is NOT about money; it's ALL about experience. Toyota is one of the least-experienced teams in the field.

Oh, and Schumacher's accident was with Yamamoto, not Sato.

During practice on Friday, when it was a dry track, both Toyota cars set very competitive times.

Toyota is still a very young team in F1 compared to it's competition, AND consider that this is the first time that F1 has raced on the revamped Fuji speedway, AND with foggy and rainy conditions it's not surprising Toyota did bad. Honda did horrible too with Barrichello. The only reason that Button in his Honda managed a good qualifying position is because he is known to be a great driver in the rain.

If this had been a dry track, both Hondas would have qualified near the back and the Toyotas would have done better.

It's definitely dissapointing to see Toyota continuing to struggle, and they definitely need to improve for 2008. If they don't, then one will have to wonder why they aren't learning anything from experience.