By Nick Sparkes
March 18 2006

After yesterdays rise up the table, Toyota again showed signs of improvement as Ralf Schumacher plotted his TF106 in seventh, whilst Jarno Trulli brought his Toyota into the top ten. What was even more rewarding was the fact the team seemed to be on level with fellow Bridgestone runner Williams. Saturday – Third Session

On another hot and sunny dry at the Sepang circuit, Toyota’s Ralf Schumacher completed a limited number of laps, the lowest in fact of the whole field. But this didn’t seem to slow him down with the German putting in a quick lap to go seventh fastest, the highest a Toyota has been all weekend. On the flip side of the coin, Jarno Trulli completed a huge amount of laps, nineteen in total, with the Italian managing to put in a lap which would put him in tenth. All in all it was a very successful session for Toyota, as the team aim to make a mends for the disappointment in Bahrain. Up front, Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso continued their on track battle which began last weekend, with Michael finishing a couple of tenths ahead of the Renault driver at the end of the session.

1	M. Schumacher	Ferrari	1:34.126	16
2	F. Alonso	Renault	1:34.180	13
3	G. Fisichella	Renault	1:34.585	13
4	J. Button	Honda	1:34.616	20
5	C. Klien	Red Bull	1:34.815	12
6	K. Räikkönen	McLaren	1:34.854	10
7	R. Schumacher	Toyota	1:35.040	7
8	N. Rosberg	Williams	1:35.242	14
9	D. Coulthard	Red Bull	1:36.639	14
10	J. Trulli	Toyota	1:35.690	19
11	M. Webber	Williams	1:35.700	11
12	J. Villeneuve	BMW	1:36.144	9
13	N. Heidfeld	BMW	1:36.505	13
14	V. Liuzzi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:36.549	15
15	R. Barrichello	Honda	1:36.655	13
16	JP. Montoy	McLaren	1:37.053	8
17	F. Massa	Ferrari	1:37.148	21
18	C. Albers	Midland F1	1:37.232	18
19	S. Speed	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:37.437	19
20	T. Monteiro	Midland F1	1:37.900	17
21	T. Sato	Super Aguri	1:38.821	15
22	Y. Ide	Super Aguri	1:40.542	18