Never give up in a season

Currently both Renault and BAR have cars that have seen them jump ahead of the WilliamsF1 team in the constructors championship Renault and BAR are 2nd and 3rd with WilliamsF1 in fourth.

But one person who has not given up on the teams chances of reversing this situation and coming out in front of these teams is BMW Motorsport Director  Mario Theissen

In respect of the BMW WilliamsF1 teams prospects he said: "Certainly we can (still aim best of rest) and we will and you never give up in a season right up to the final race.

"Renault have opened up quite a gap in terms of the points' standings but the season is long enough for us to recover and certainly the team is pushing very hard.

"You never know what can happen - we saw something unexpected last year when we had a start that was equally difficult to this year but by the half season we seemed to have the quickest car."

But there are improvements scheduled for the FW26 for the French Grand Prix in July. It has been reported that BMW has requested of WilliamsF1 a development plan for the FW26.

Even team boss Frank Williams has admitted that the team is falling behind in their development of the FW26. He said: "Our development progress has simply not been fast enough since the Bahrain Grand Prix in April, that's a fact, and we are being left behind.

"BMW were pressing us for a plan on development of this car, which they will receive on Wednesday, and we will have a plan for ourselves that we will share with BMW for next year's car, which is being worked on at the present time.

"We don't have a horsepower problem and we need to work at our factory in Grove much more successfully than we have been working. There should be a useful update in time for the French Grand Prix, we hope."

As for the competitiveness of the teams Theissen added: "I think we would have been in the range of the Renaults if we had not had the problems at the start here (European GP). We are about even with Renault I would say.

"BAR has an advantage over us at the moment but there will be improvements in the season and I am confident that we can catch up and can get close to the two teams ahead of us.

"But Ferrari now have more than 100 points, they are very strong and they have already got home so many top results this season that it needs their help for us to catch them."