BMW WilliamsF1 Team Reactions Hungarian Qualifying

By BMW WilliamsF1 Team
July 30 2005

Reactions .... Hungarian GP Qualifying

The BMW WilliamsF1 Team will start tomorrow's Hungarian Grand Prix from the 6th and 8th row respectively. Tomorrow's race will be hot and highly reliant on race strategy as overtaking is extremely difficult on the twisty, high downforce circuit.

Mark Webber 16th (1.23.495 min) Chassis: FW27 04 (T-Car FW27 06) / BMW P84/5 Engine: 1st GP "Going out for qualifying second, especially on this track, is obviously a great drawback, although I must admit track conditions were not as bad as I expected. My first two sectors weren't too bad but I lost a bit of time in the last sector. The car has improved, I can feel that, but we are still not where we want to be."

Nick Heidfeld 12th (1.22,086 min) Chassis: FW27 03 / BMW P84/5 Engine: 1st GP "I am happy with my lap. At the beginning, the balance was particularly good although later in the lap I suffered a bit but all in all it was ok. I have always liked this track and I am confident I can have a good race tomorrow and collect some points. Our car has definitely improved thanks to all the new aero parts but the gap to the front runners has been so big in the last three races that it will take some time before it's filled."

Dr Mario Theissen BMW Motorsports Director "In qualifying, Nick achieved the time we were expecting while Mark suffered from his early starting position. We won't see the true situation until the first stops have happened tomorrow. We hope that at least Nick will be able to finish in the points. We didn't suffer any technical problems in the session."

Sam Michael Chief Operations Engineer WilliamsF1 "So far the improvements that we have brought to the car are working well. We obviously still have some work to do and we will keep pushing hard. Tomorrow it will be interesting to see where the strategies are as it is quite a mixed grid. Temperatures will be high in tomorrow's race, so we are looking at this as well."