By Nick Sparkes
May 2 2006

The Toyota team head to the first of three home Grand Prixs with the Nürburgring circuit a short drive away from the Cologne factory, where hundreds of Toyota employees will be on hand at the track to give the team that extra support it needs. A shame they cant predict the weather! Like with so many European Grand Prix’s the weather can change by the minute, so the team has to be prepared for everything, and as Pascal Vasselon explains, the difference in weather can be dramatic. “It's still early in the year and in May anything could happen in that part of the world – sun, rain or possibly even snow! You can wake up and the temperature could be anything between 0 and 35 degrees. So we have to anticipate that and we have to make sure we cover any eventuality, especially when it comes to tyres.”

Toyota, like the other ten Formula One teams, have done their homework for this weekend. "Unlike its predecessor the Nordschleife, the current Nürburgring is an average track for Formula 1. It ranks in the mid-range for most of the important items like downforce levels, braking energy and tyres.”

“We spent last week testing at Paul Ricard working on some new parts and especially tyre choice and that leaves us confident that we will be able to react to any conditions that we can face."