All WilliamsF1 front row in Canada

With the rain stopped and the track almost dry everywhere the times that would be set in Saturday's qualifying were to be considerably faster than that of Friday. But there was a chance of rain. For Ralf Schumacher the warm-up session prior to qualifying would see him set the fastest time so there was a chance that he would qualify well.

BAR's Jacques Villeneuve would be the first out and in a mistake free lap would set a time of 1m:17.347. Next came Renault's Jarno Trulli, who would have to start in the T Car after crashing his race car. Jarno would go faster than Jacques, with a time of 1m:16.718.

Next would be Jordan's Giancarlo Fisichella who, after a several mistakes running wide, would be 1.8 off the fastest time after sector two. He would end up 1.3 seconds slower than Trulli. Jaguar driver Antonio Pizzonia would go second with a lap of 1m:17.337. For Toyota's Cristiano Da Matta, who has had a difficult time with his car, set an encouraging time to go second just one tenth behind Trulli.

After his quick time in the warm-up Ralf would be looking to set a quick time and this is what he did. He would set a lap time of 1m:'15.529, which was a huge 1.2 seconds faster than Trulli's time. For BAR's Jenson Button his time would see him go into seventh. He would have one big moment when he was to miss the chicane. He would be 2.6 seconds behind Ralf. So far it was looking very much like the Michelin supplied drivers had the upper hand.

For Minardi's Justin Wilson he would move into eighth but next would be Juan Pablo Montoya and on his flying lap he would make one small mistake but with his BMW engine pushing the FW25 up to 334.4 km/h coming back to the chicane he was able to set a time of 1m:15.923 to go second. Compare this to the 326.1kmh from Button's Honda engine.

For Minardi's Jos Verstappen he would set an encouraging seventh fastest time but with ten drivers still left to run he would find himself near the back of the grid. Toyota's Olivier Panis was the first of the next group of drivers to go out and he would set a time of 1m:16.569 to go third.

Jaguar's Mark Webber would lose time in the second sector, combined with a poor top speed of only 315kmh and he would go third with a lap time of 1m:16.182. For McLaren's David Coulthard he would start his flying lap but would lose time and would be 1.5 seconds behind Ralf in seventh. Having said that it is believed that he was running a heavy fuel load. For Sauber's Heinz Harald Frentzen his lap would see him push Coulthard down to eighth as he slotted into seventh.

Next came McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen and in a very big mistake would crash, spinning his car at the first corner and backing his car into the tyre wall damaging its rear wing and suspension. Kimi was uninjured but for him his race will start from the back of the grid. That is the second time he has gone off in final qualifying so far this season.

Renault's Fernando Alonso would go out and despite some aggressive driving he would finish in third with a lap time of 1m:16.048. He appeared to suffer from understeer during his lap and came close to hitting the wall on one occasion. For an engine that is supposedly down on power Alonso was able to set a top speed of 325.7kmh.

For Jordan's Ralph Firman his lap would be ruined when he would run wide in the esses, finishing last 1.8 seconds behind Ralf. For Sauber's Nick Heidfeld his time would see him move into tenth 1.5 seconds behind Ralf. Next would be Michael Schumacher and could be beat the WilliamsF1 driver into pole.

But he would make a small error in the esses and lose 0.15 seconds after sector one. He would lose a further time in sector two to be 0.315 seconds down. By the end of the lap his time would only be good enough for third 0.488 seconds behind Ralf. The last driver to go out was Rubens Barrichello and he would be 0.339 down after the first sector. At the end of the lap Rubens would finish only in fifth six tenths of the pace.

In a great result for the BMW WilliamsF1 team it would give us an all WilliamsF1 BMW front row.