Montoya looking forward to Canada

Up to the race in Monaco Juan Pablo had achieved points in each of the races.  Compared to his disastrous start to the 2001 where he only one finish in seven races.

In regard to his performances so far in the 2002 season Juan Pablo said: "It was a bit disappointing that we didn't finish the last race in Monaco because we had a technical problem, but sooner or later it was going to happen. But this year I am a lot more experienced, the team understands me a lot better and it just makes things a lot easier.

Last year I had a lot of races where we were in the points and the car broke down. We had a lot of reliability issues and I had two crashes - one in Monaco and one here (in Canada) last year - and I was just trying to compensate for the job we were not doing with the engineers. I think it was a difficult point for me because I was telling the team I've got this and I've got that and they say you can't have that sometimes.

Rather than have that you couldn't really have that and it got to a point where I said just change it and from then on things started to go better and they changed this to suit my driving and that really helped."

As for what has changed in regard to his driving between 2001 and now, and even from his days when he drove in the CART championship, Juan Pablo added: "Of course, it changes a little bit, to try to get the maximum out of the car. Every car you have got to drive in a different way. There are some cars that if you brake really late then you make more time than going high speed through the corners and stuff like that.

The Champ Car was a very heavy car compared with the Formula One, and the way you drive it was completely different, but it never really was an issue how I needed to drive, the issue was I couldn't really get comfortable with the car. Monaco last year, I hardly qualified seventh and I struggled all weekend, and this year I put the car on pole by four tenths. If you are happy with the car and you feel comfortable pushing you are going to go further than anybody else."

As for his thoughts about this weekends race Juan Pablo saw the Montreal track as one he likes and where tyres will once again play a major role.

Juan Pablo said: "I think from what we saw last week, the tyres can be crucial for qualifying. A lot of races can be decided where you qualify. I think it will play a big part as always, but for BMW and everyone it's a good track.

Of the circuit he said: "Yeah, it should be pretty good. I like the circuit, it's OK.

The last few races have seen Juan Pablo let down by the WilliamsF1 traction control system, such as in the last race in Monaco where he was beaten into the first corner by David Coulthard even though the had pole position.

His thoughts on this were: "I think it's three: Monaco, Brazil and Austria as well. I lost two places in Austria at the start. I don't know what's going on. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't so it's not very consistent at the moment. We have to figure it out. Everybody's working on it but it's not the only thing we're concentrating on, it's one of the things. One of things we need to improve is traction control. It was really strong last year, I think it will be really strong again. We need to have the edge that we had before."

Despite the fact that the team won at this circuit in 2001 the BMW WilliamsF1 team will have to improve on their race performances are been let down quite badly in Monaco. If Michelin can provide the team with a suitable tyre there is no reason why the success of 2001 can not be repeated in 2002.