Tuesday March 12th, 2002

The Toyota team have played down the expectations for next weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix after scoring their first point in Australia ten days ago.

The Japanese squad, competing in their first ever race in Melbourne, benefitted from the chaos at the start of the event to finish in sixth place with Finn Mika Salo, thus enjoying a dream start to their Formula One career.

However, team boss Ove Andersson has said that all they aim for at Sepang next Sunday is to have both cars at the end of the race.

"After such a tremendous result in Australia, we must not expect too much from this race in Malaysia," said Andersson. "Everyone in the team did a great job in Melbourne, but we must not put too much pressure on ourselves in Malaysia. This is only our second race.

"Allan was very unlucky to be taken out at the first corner last time and my main aim at Sepang is to get both cars to the finish. That would be progress and it would help in our evolution as a team."

Published at 10:53:47 GMT