Gascoyne Unhappy despite Front Row

Italian Jarno Trulli, who started from second place both in Australia and Malaysia, was second quickest again in first qualifying, only behind the Renault of Championship leader Fernando Alonso.

Gascoyne, however, believed Trulli's lap could have been better, which would have given him a chance at topping the times.

"In the end it was a disappointing qualifying session, despite the fact that we have placed one of our TF105s on the provisional front row of the grid," said Gascoyne at the end of the session, in which German Ralf Schumacher finished down in 11th place after an error during his flying lap.

"Ralf made a mistake due to oversteer at turn eight and lost a lot of time, which will make thing difficult tomorrow," added Gascoyne. "We have to look at moving him up the grid and into the top ten.

"Jarno did a reasonably good lap, but felt that he could have gained a couple of tenths. Yet again, we have a car in second position, but the team is now looking to achieve more than that. Tomorrow, we have to consolidate Jarno's starting position and aim to score at least our second podium."

Toyota scored their first podium finish at the Malaysia Grand Prix two weeks ago, when Trulli finished second behind Alonso.