BMW WilliamsF1 Team-San Marino GP-Race

San Marino Grand Prix  -  RACE
20th April 2003

Weather: dry, air  19°C, track 21°C

Imola (ITA). BMW and WilliamsF1 would like to express their sympathy to Ralf
and Michael Schumacher for the death of their mother. Ralf Schumacher left
immediately after having run his race and was obviously not available for
any comment.

The San Marino Grand Prix didn¹t live up to the expectations of the BMW
WilliamsF1 Team, after yesterday¹s strong qualifying. Ralf Schumacher
finished fourth and team mate Juan Pablo Montoya was 7th after suffering a
refueling problem during one of his pit-stops.

Ralf Schumacher: 4th
Chassis: FW25 02
Best time: 1.23,265 min (lap 29, 6h)

Juan Pablo Montoya: 7th
Chassis: FW25 04
Best time: 1.22.946 min (lap 32, 4th)
"Definitely an unlucky race for me today. I lost some ground at the start as
I was trying to find a corridor for overtaking on the cleaner side of the
track. Then my race was decided at my second pit stop, when far too little
fuel went into my car due to a problem with the fuel rig and I was forced to
pit again immediately after. I pushed as much as I could hoping to gain some
positions but in the third sector of the race I had some understeer and also
I lost some time lapping slower cars."

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
"In general our chassis improvements became visible in Imola. However our
race was hampered by a few things. We went for a three stop strategy which
promised to be the quicker one, which is proven by the fact that the race
winner stopped three times too. But this strategy does not leave any margin
if anything goes wrong, and we had several problems at the pit stops, the
worst one being a malfunctioning fuel rig."

Gerhard Berger (BMW Motorsport Director):
"We hoped for a podium finish today, but that was unfortunately not the
case. A few things went wrong in the pit-stops. As well as the problem that
Juan experienced with the fuel rig, Ralf selected the wrong gear when he
restarted after his first pit-stop and lost some vital seconds there. Also
Juan slightly missed the pit-stop area at one of his stops. However, it was
clear today that the gap between the top teams is tight."

Silverstone Test: 22-24 April, Juan Pablo Montoya and Marc Gené all days

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