Jarno Trulli posted the fastest time on the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona today, his time being the second quickest of the year at the Spanish track. However, before anyone starts rushing to the conclusion that the Japanese team may have finally broken into the big league, it should be noted that the same thing happened last year, only it was at Jerez.

The good weather continued for the last day of official winter testing before the start of the 2008 season, and Toyota used the time available to carry out final preparations for the Australian Grand Prix, now just over a fortnight away.

Trulli and Timo Glock worked on fine-tuning set-ups and finishing off their groundwork for the first race. The Italian set the fastest time of the day during a qualifying run while the track was at its best in the morning. He finished with 83 laps while his German teammate managed 65 after a more disrupted day.

"That was another positive day," said Trulli. "We made some progress in understanding the car and the set-up. Even though this is only a test, it's nice to see the mechanics and the guys smiling because today's times are good motivation. There is still room for improvement but this shows the team has done a good job over the winter tests. Of course we won't know the real running order until Melbourne but I'm quite confident for the season. It's definitely looking much better than last year so I'm happy for the team."

"Today was a frustrating day for me," admitted Glock. "I didn't find a way to set up the car to my driving style and the pace suffered as a result. It's strange that on the first morning we had okay pace then it's been dropping off during the week. Perhaps the problem is the hard tyre but we will have to analyse all the data. At the moment it doesn't bode well for Australia but we have a couple of weeks to turn things around."

"Given the mixed weather we faced here last week it was important to complete more running over these three days," said Pascal Vasselon. "This week shows that our preparations for Melbourne have been going very well. After Jarno's satisfying long run yesterday we did some very fruitful qualifying simulations today so we feel ready for the first race. Timo was more unfortunate to have a small off at the start of his qualifying simulation, compromising his run plan today. But we have done enough mileage so far over the winter to be confident that we can head to Melbourne without any major concerns."

Second quickest, either having fully recovered from his neck ache or the result of seeing Sebastian Vettel's blistering performance on Tuesday, was David Coulthard.

Today was the Scot's turn to try the latest aerodynamic updates on RB4 that Mark Webber ran for the first time on Tuesday. As for the Australian, he concentrated on fine-tuning the package and set-up work prior to Melbourne.

"This was the last test session until after the Bahrain GP and in many ways, for those of us on the test team, it feels like the end of a season that has run pretty much non-stop since the end of last year," said Chief Test Engineer, Ian Morgan. "The result of all the hard work is that the cars go to Australia having completed a high mileage, showing good reliability and what seems like an encouraging level of performance. Now it's a case of getting to Melbourne to see where we really are."

Third quickest, and once again suggesting that Williams is on the verge of a serious step forward this season, was Nico Rosberg, who was partnered by Kazuki Nakajima. Between them, the Grove duo completed over 200 laps, with the Japanese driver being one of the busiest.