By Nick Sparkes
April 27 2006

You couldn’t really compare Toyota’s speed or pace to their competitors today, as Ferrari were the only other team represent at today’s Paul Ricard test. Toyota debuted its TF106B in the hands of Jarno Trulli, whilst Ricardo Zonta continued to work on their current TF106. On a dusty and dirty track, Ricardo Zonta felt at times that he was being used just to clean the track up to get in some descent runs, but he believed the day wasn’t a waste of time. "This is the first time that we have used this circuit layout, so we had to work on our set-up to adjust to this. In the morning, the track was very dirty, with pollen and dust from the trees, therefore, we also spent a lot of time cleaning the track. Nevertheless, we did a lot of different tyre tests and the day turned out to be productive, with my car performing well. Now we have tomorrow and Friday to focus on some long runs."

Jarno Trulli also highlighted the difficult track conditions and although it wasn’t an ideal start for the TF106B, Jarno is optimistic of a boost. We had a difficult morning with the track conditions and then we had some delays with my car. The day was very promising, especially with the new car and in general, the testing we got through was good. Tomorrow I hope to put in even more laps to gain a feeling for the new package and to be able to make a better judgement."

Badoer was the only other car out on track, and although clocked up most of the mileage set the slowest time of the day.

1	R. Zonta		Toyota		00:58.262	91
2	J. Trulli		Toyota		00:58.630	63
3	L. Badoer		Ferrari		00:58.676	150