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TOYOTA AT MONTEREY.(Competition)

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The Toyota F1 team set a Laguna Seca lap record during the Monterey Historic Races. Test driver Ricardo Zonta, who won the 1998 FIA GT race and title at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn circuit, drove Toyota's TF106 (the 2006 car) on Friday and clocked one minute, 7.587 seconds. That eclipsed the previous record, one minute, 7.722 seconds, set by Helio Castroneves in a Penske CART car in 2000.

After modifying the car's setup to accommodate Laguna's bumpy surface, Zonta put in a one-minute, 6.596-second lap on Saturday before recording his ...

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