Bahrain Saturday quotes: Toyota

"Still, the whole team has done a good job so far this weekend and it's been completely trouble-free for me. Obviously the race is a different story so let's see what happens tomorrow with the strategy. We've done well at the first two races so we can now hope to build on that here. It's going to be a tough afternoon but we will do our best to score some more points."

Ralf Schumacher - 14th: "This has been another difficult weekend for me so far, just as it was in Malaysia. The car is quick enough but I've had problems all weekend adapting it to suit me. I've been battling with understeer both yesterday and today and it's been difficult to set it up for my needs.

"I missed out on some of this morning's practice session due to a problem changing our rear suspension so qualifying was a struggle. We certainly hope for a better race but it's hard to predict what we can achieve from so far back on the grid. Hopefully I will be able to gain some places and it will look better come tomorrow evening."

Pascal Vasselon - Senior General Manager Chassis: "We have mixed emotions today. All weekend Ralf has had some problems with the car and we have been struggling to adapt the set up to suit him. Then during morning practice while we were changing his rear suspension something went wrong and one of his parts was damaged so it was impossible to continue. So we did not really help him in his preparations.

During qualifying it was already looking better but still Ralf did not make it out of Q2. Jarno fared better and he had quite a gap compared to the car behind him in Q2 so it seemed like we were the fourth quickest team today. Unfortunately his last lap in Q3 was not trouble-free so our final positions are slightly disappointing.

Nonetheless overall, compared to the pre-season test here where we appeared particularly poor, it's clear that we've made a very large step forwards. At the beginning of the weekend the tyre specs were pretty close together but as the track improved it is clear that there is now quite a big gulf in performance.

Both in the first lap and over long runs the soft spec appeared much better so that seems to be the picture for the season so far. Now we must look to make up ground and chase another strong result tomorrow."