BMW WilliamsF1 Team - GP Brazil - Qualifying

Brazilian Grand Prix-- QUALIFYING                30th March 2002

Weather: dry, 31ƒC Air, 43ƒC Track

In a very exciting qualifying session to the Brazilian Grand Prix, Juan
Pablo Montoya achieved this season's first pole position for the BMW
WilliamsF1 Team. The Colombian driver will start tomorrow from pole for the
fourth time in his F1 career. His team-mate Ralf Schumacher was third,
behind his brother Michael's Ferrari.

Juan Pablo Montoya        1st
Chassis: FW24 02
Best time: 1:13.144
"I am happy to be on pole, especially because this morning I couldn't get a
clean run on new tyres and I had some understeer and I knew there was more
potential in my car than my times showed. Starting the race from pole will
maybe allow me to make up for my disappointing finish in last year's Grand
Prix. We are also pleased with Michelin's performance and the hot weather
is helping us here."

Ralf Schumacher               3rd
Chassis:  FW24 04
Best time: 1:13.328
"I am very pleased with my grid position. Unfortunately I couldn't get the
set-up of my car completely right. The times are very close in this
qualifying. Michael found a bit more squeezed between Juan Pablo and
myself. I would prefer being on the first row, of course, but I think third
place on the grid is not too bad in this case and I will start from the
clean side of the track."

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1)
"It was obviously a good session, especially for Juan who claimed his first
pole this year. Ralf did a good job as well and if he could have brought
his sector times together, he would have been in front row as well. The
other cars on Michelin tyres are a lot closer to us than before, they are
catching up. Now we are looking forward to tomorrow's race in which we
should be very strong."

Gerhard Berger (BMW Motorsport Director)
"This was an interesting and entertaining qualifying. If the conditions
stay like this, tomorrow we could be fighting for the victory. We usually
perform well in hot races. Juan Pablo drove a very strong qualifying and
Ralf could not put together a perfect lap connecting his best sector times.
But time differences are very small therefore you also need a bit of luck."

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