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Formula One: First row seats for Toyota in Bahrain

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byPetar Kostadinov

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Formula One: First row seats for Toyota in Bahrain

Jarno Trulli

Toyota Formula One team continued its good performance in this year’s championship by sending its two drivers, Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock, to the top two starting positions for the April 26 Grand Prix race in Bahrain.
 
Italian Trulli took full advantage of his car and scored the fastest lap with a time of 1:33.431. His German teammate Glock was just 0.281 seconds slower to take second.

Sebastian Vettel from Red Bull, winner of Chinese Grand Prix a week earlier, was third after clocking a time that was 0.584 seconds slower than Trulli. He will be joined on the secon row of the starting grid by the leader in the drivers' standing, Jenson Button from Brawn GP.

Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton with McLaren and  Brawn GP's other driver Rubens Barrichello, are on the third row. Former two-time world champion Fernando Alonso with Renault was seventh, joined by last year's runner-up Felipe Massa from Ferrari.

Ferrari's former world champion Kimi Raikkonen and Nico Rosberg from Williams-Toyota are tenth and ninth, respectively.
 
In the championship standing the leader is Button with 21 points, followed by Barrichello on 15, while  Vettel and Glock have 10 points apiece.

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