BMW WilliamsF1 Team-US GP-Final Qualifying

United States Grand Prix  -  FINAL QUALIFYING            27th September 2003

Weather: Sunny, partly cloudy.
Air temperature 18-20°C Track temperature 23-34°C

Indianapolis (USA). The BMW WilliamsF1 Team drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and
Ralf Schumacher qualified today in 4th and 5th position respectively and
will start tomorrowıs US GP from the second and third row.

Juan Pablo Montoya:    4nd
Chassis: FW25 06 (T-car FW04)
Best time: 1:11,948 min
"My first sector was ok but I had quite a bit of oversteer in the second and
third sectors and this wasnıt ideal, as I lost about three tenths there. We
could have done a little bit better but thatıs what weıve got and I am still
confident we will have a good race ahead of us. I would really like to
please all the South American fans who have come here to support me. I know
I have an excellent race car, weıve got good power too and this is
important. Itıs interesting to see Kimi up there, instead of Michael: Kimi
is always full of surprises!"

Ralf Schumacher:    5th
Chassis:  FW25 07 (T-car FW02)
Best time: 1:12,078 min
"The very first part of my lap was very weak, as one can see from my
sector-time. Beside this, we had to change the car a lot from the warm-up to
qualifying, because of the accident I had in this morningıs Free Practice,
when I braked too late and went off track into the barriers, as it caused me
to lose quite a lot of valuable track time. Still I managed to qualify in a
reasonable position so I am fairly happy. I will start tomorrow from the
better side of the track so I hope I will have a good start."

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
"We did not qualify where we would have liked to. The cars were not
perfectly balanced in this session. But we are still confident for a strong
race tomorrow. I am sure it will be be an exciting one with the grid the way
it is."

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
"Neither of our drivers had an ideal lap today, and both of them have not
been one hundred percent happy with the handling of the cars. We will see
what the grid positions four and five are worth when the time comes for the
first pit-stops. Apart from race strategy, an important issue will be who
will manage to overtake on the oval's straight. If you look at the top
speeds, I would say our drivers have pretty good chances to do so."