BMW WilliamsF1 Team-British GP-Final Qualifying

British Grand Prix  -  FINAL QUALIFYING
19th July 2003

Weather: Sunny, dry. Air temperature 25°C Track temperature 38°C

Silverstone (UK) After qualifying in the top three for the past five races,
neither BMW WilliamsF1 Team driver enjoyed as strong a performance today.
However, Ralf Schumacher will start from second row having secured 4th
position and Juan Pablo Montoya set the 7th fastest time today.

Ralf Schumacher:    4th
Chassis:  FW25 07 
Best time: 1:21.727min
"I believe we are well prepared for the race even though my qualifying
result wasn¹t excellent, mainly due to the fact that I was struggling with
the balance of my car, so as a consequence I am not too disappointed.
Ferrari have again proved to be very strong here but nevertheless Michael is
starting behind me on the grid. However, today¹s qualifying result was quite
unusual."

Juan Pablo Montoya:    7th
Chassis: FW25 06 (T-car FW 04)
Best time: 1:22.214min
"I am disappointed with this result because my car was very good and very
stable this morning, and then it turned out to be not as positive in the
warm-up and in qualifying. I didn¹t seem to have found the right balance as
I was experiencing plenty of oversteer in some of the corners and generally
poor traction. The car was very difficult to drive and very snappy. Now we
must consider this in some detail before tomorrow. Anyway, we knew that this
track was going to be tough for us. I am happy for Rubens who made it on
pole, after he started so early on the session."

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
"It was a reasonable qualifying session for the team but we are pretty
confident that we are going to have quite a good pace in the race and a good
strategy."

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
"Starting fourth and seventh reflects the fact that both the drivers were
not too happy with their cars during qualifying. Indeed, the first four rows
of the grid are quite unusual . Furthermore, it¹s usually remarkably to see
such a gap between team-mates. We will see in the race if this has something
to do with different strategies as well as validate our true qualifying pace
in the race tomorrow."