Spanish GP - Race

Weather: Sunny and dry. Temp: Air 20-21°C, Track 31-38°C, Humidity 43-53%

Barcelona (SPA). Ralf Schumacher today achieved sixth place for the BMW
WilliamsF1 Team, reconfirming his qualifying position. Juan Pablo Montoya had
his first DNF of the season due to a brake problem.

Ralf Schumacher: 6th
Chassis: FW26 07
Best time: 1:18.548 min (lap 27, 8th overall)
The result, more or less, reflects our current performances. We could not have
achieved a much better position, even with a better start. Furthermore, I had
to fight very early on with some brake problems, which meant I had to be very
gentle on them until the end. I knew Barcelona was not among our favourite
tracks, however I expected more. We must work very hard on our performance in
order to make our way back to the top.

Juan Pablo Montoya: DNF (retired at lap 46)
Chassis: FW26 06
Best time: 1:18.262 min (lap 28, 7th overall)
I knew this race would be difficult. It's been like this every year so we know
this track is hard on the car. We did a good job yesterday in qualifying by
putting the car on the front row of the grid, but then I lost two positions at
the start. I started having brake problems in the very first part of the race,
with the pedal going very long, but they then seemed to come back after the
first pit-stop so I thought everything was ok. However, when Fisichella, who
was ahead of me, pitted and I was pushing hard to gain an advantage, the brakes
stopped working again so I had to retire. I am not frustrated though. I've had
this before and it's not worth getting annoyed about. You just have to learn
from the experience and work hard to address the problem.

Sam Michael (Chief Operations Engineer, WilliamsF1):
It was a pretty disappointing day when you consider our race pace in comparison
to the frontrunners. We also made a bad judgement with the brake cooling which
ultimately forced Juan to retire and Ralf was on the limit with his brakes for
the whole race.

Mario Theissen (BMW Motorsport Director):
When you start from positions two and six, three points is a poor result. Both
the drivers lost some places at the start and you don't recover from a bad
start when there are three teams doing the same lap times, like Renault, BAR
and ourselves were doing today. At the end of the race, Ralf was able regain
the position he had started from, while Juan had to retire. Once again Ferrari
dominated, which has allowed them to increase their margin in the fight for the
Championship.

Test: Le Castellet, 11-14 May: Marc Gené 11,12,13, Antonio Pizzonia 11,12,14,
Montoya 13,14