By Karl King
March 31 2005

This weekend, Toyota Racing and the other 9 teams will be competing over 57 laps of 3.366 miles (or 5.417 km) but can you remember last year's disappointing race?

Jenson Button made the Brits happy scoring his second podium of 2004 at the last race in Bahrain, but the scarlet cars dominated, with Michael Schumacher leading Barrichello home.

Who got Pole in Bahrain last year? Michael Schumacher.

Who got the fastest lap in Bahrain 2004? Michael Schumacher.

But, that looks all to change this weekend. Ferrari will be bringing their F2005 car into force this weekend, but according to reports, it is between half a second to a whole second faster than their 'M' car, but to everyone's amazement here at TTF1, it will only be in the lower ranks of the top 10!

So, does that leave the door open for Toyota to improve on their 9th and 10th from Olivier Panis and Christiano da Matta respectively in 2004. With Toyota's outstanding showing in KL last weekend, we've got our fingers crossed.

Practice starts tomorrow for Round 3 of the 2005 FIA Formula One World Championship...

Image from Toyota-F1.com

 

Here is the race schedule for the weekend:

2005 race schedule date local time   1 April, 2005 (Fri.) 11:00 - 12:00 practice 1   14:00 - 15:00 practice 2 2 April, 2005 (Sat.) 09:00 - 09:45 practice 3   10:15 - 12:00 practice 4   13:00 - qualifying 1 3 April, 2005 (Sun.) 10:30 - qualifying 2   14:30 - race external links above lead to a Toyota-F1 official page.