BMW WilliamsF1 Team-Canadian GP-1st Qualifying

Canadian Grand Prix  -  FIRST QUALIFYING
13th June 2003

Weather: Wet, 16° Air, C 16°C Track

Montreal (CAN). In the first very wet qualifying session of the season so
far, Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher came 12th and 15th respectively.
Therefore, they will start Saturday¹s Final Qualifying session for the 2003
Canadian Grand Prix from 6th and 9th positions.

Juan Pablo Montoya:    12th
Chassis: FW25 06 (Spare car FW 04)
Best time: 1.37,479 min
"Not really the ideal condition for a qualifying lap, today. We decided to
go for the full wet tyre at the very last minute after we saw the other
Michelin drivers who had started before me were struggling on shallow wet
tyres, but it wasn¹t good either because it was raining too hard.  I had
poor grip and the handling of the car was very difficult.  We can work on
this and improve our car for tomorrow, when track conditions could possibly
be very different. Anyway, this is what we¹ve got at the moment."

Ralf Schumacher:    15th
Chassis: FW25 05 
Best time: 1.38,210 min
"I was quite unlucky in my fast lap, as just before I went out onto the
track it started to rain even harder. If you compare my times to those of
Jarno Trulli who ran right after me, he was three seconds slower, so it is
easy to figure out just how difficult it was to keep the car on the track in
that phase. In the morning¹s free prectice, when it started raining hard, I
was actually one of the quickest. This means that we should be capable of
being competitive in such weather conditions, even if this wasn¹t evident in
today¹s qualifying."

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
"When Juan was running he locked up the wheels into turn 7 and that cost him
about one and a half seconds. He was running in quite difficult conditions.
Then when Ralf was out on track it looked as if the rain was a bit heavier,
but anyway these could be the conditions we are going to have for the
weekend and we¹ve got a bit of work to do on the set-up for tomorrow."

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
"The decisive factors in this qualifying  session were obviously  the
wheather, the very little time one had to set up the car for these
conditions and of course the tyres. Our two drivers used different tyres,
Ralf the shallow wet, Juan Pablo the full wet,  but the result was similar.
Neither of them is really happy with their times."

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