Spanish GP - QUALIFYING

Weather: 21°C Air, 21°C Track

Both the drivers of the BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo
Montoya will start from the second row of the grid for tomorrow's Spanish Grand
Prix. After solid work from the team, both drivers benefited from improvements
in their cars after yesterday's free practice sessions to dramatically improve
their times.

Ralf Schumacher: 3rd
Chassis: FW24 04
Best time: 1.17:277
Yesterday we didn't expect to be where we are today, even if we looked maybe
worse than how we actually were, because we were working towards the race. The
team did a great job overnight, changing my car quite a lot, which allowed us
to improve sensibly. We are pretty happy with the Michelin tyres and I think
they look in good shape for tomorrow. It is also positive that Juan Pablo and
myself are so close even if we are still too far away from Ferrari. Starting
from these grid positions we can aim for points and possibly for a podium.

Juan Pablo Montoya: 4th
Chassis: FW24 05 (T-Car FW24 02)
Best time: 1.17:425
If I think how qualifying started for me, I am absolutely happy with position
four. Straight after leaving the garage for the first time I noticed an engine
misfire and I had to switch to the T-Car. At the beginning it did not go too
well with the spare car, but on my last lap I managed to put the best possible
lap together. I don't know how it worked, but it definitely did!

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
We are right behind the Ferraris, which was our realistic target for this
circuit. The engineers and the drivers did a good job on the set-up to get both
cars on the second row. This was a good effort from the whole team. We have
some improvements for this race and they are working well but we are still
focussing on the gap to Ferrari. Now we are looking forward to tomorrow when we
believe we can have a competitive race.

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
We are very pleased to have both cars on the second row. Juan Pablo radioed
that he had a misfire. There was no reason for this that we could see
immediately on the data but instead of wasting any time we decided to switch to
the T-Car. We had to focus on giving Juan the opportunity of three qualifying
runs. Given these circumstances he did a brilliant job. For Ralf everything
went according to plan and he too did a good job.