By Nick Sparkes
January 3 2006

Panasonic Toyota Racing has made it clear that 2006 will mark the turning point in the team’s winless history. Their main target is to win at lest one race and to finish in the top 3 in the constructors. Drivers Jarno Trulli and Ralf Schumacher are now focused on the team’s biggest mission yet. Toyota’s general manager of F1 operations Richard Cregan told Setanta that the team has higher expectations for itself than that of Toyota Japan. "We probably produce more pressure internally to be successful than we ever feel from Japan," Cregan said. "I think the teams to beat in 2006 will be Renault and McLaren and we're definitely going for our first race win this year."

But Cregan stated what the team’s aims were for 2006; "We want to score more points and more podiums," he said. “That will be more difficult but our overall target is to win at least one race this season.”

Toyota’s Ralf Schumacher is also keen on taking Toyota’s first victory in 2006, with the TF106 working to his liking and on the back foot of a strong end to this 2005 campaign. "We want to be finish in the top three in the championship and I want to win our first race in 2006," Schumacher told Sport Bild.”

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