BMW WilliamsF1 Team-German GP-Race Results

German Grand Prix - RACE
28th July 2002

Weather: sunny and dry, 31°C Air, 36° Track

A strong performance from the BMW WilliamsF1 Team at the German Grand Prix
in Hockenheim: Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher finished second and
third respectively behind World Champion Michael Schumacher.

Juan Pablo Montoya:       2nd
Chassis: FW24 05
Fastest Lap: 1:16,693 on lap 33 (3rd overall)
"Of course I didn¹t expect to come second, it happened thanks to the
misfortune of Rubens and Ralf, but this is racing and such things happen.
This is my best result in seven races in spite of the fact that I was on
pole for five races. The fight with Raikkonen was very entertaining. After
he passed me at the start I had a few chances to overtake him, but it was
too risky and I preferred waiting. Then the team told me I could make it and
pumped my revs up, which gave me some additional power. I had good
acceleration and Raikkinen did as well but then he made a mistake and I got
past."

Ralf Schumacher:             3rd
Chassis:  FW24 06
Fastest Lap: 1:16,513 lap 47 (2nd overall)
"If I look at all the problems I had today I should be happy to have
finished third. A couple of things went wrong today. First Trulli held me up
then I was slowed down by Villeneuve when I was approaching the pits and
finally I had an additional stop to top up the pressurised air for the
pneumatic valve drive of the engine. Anyway, positions two and three are a
good result for the team."

Patrick Head (Technical Director, WilliamsF1):
"Obviously we have had a much better performance today than in recent races.
We have made a lot of progress during the last week after the French Grand
Prix. I would like to thank the engineers and mechanics at the race-track as
well as all the people back at the factory in Grove for all of their
efforts."

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
"We have been quite strong this weekend and achieved a very good race
result. Apart from seeing both of our drivers on the podium I am happy that
after a long time we were able to keep Ferrari¹s pace again. Ralf and Juan
both drove strong races without making any mistakes. To enable Juan to get
past Kimi Raikkonen on lap 11 we gave him more revs for a while. With just
four laps to go we had to call Ralf in for another pit stop. We had to
refill air into the pneumatic valve system of the engine and we will now
have to analyse why the air consumption was higher than normal."