2004 European GP Friday Practice: Team Comments

By BMW WilliamsF1
May 28 2004

	European GP Friday - Team Comments
	Ralf Schumacher was third fastest today, at the end of the second Free Practice session for the European Grand Prix, while team mate Juan Pablo Montoya set the 11th time.
	Juan Pablo Montoya First session 11th 1.31.782 min First session: xth 1.xx.xxx min Chassis: FW26 06 Second session: 11th 1.30.337 min "I wasn’t on the same wavelength as my car today. I was expecting some difficulties in setting it up and this caused more of a problem than I thought. The car is quite hard to drive and most of all unpredictable. If you look at what Ralf has achieved, it’s clear that the potential is there, so we just need to focus on our problems and hopefully solve them by tomorrow."
	Ralf Schumacher First session 8th 1.31.680 min Chassis: FW26 07 (Spare car FW26 05) Second session: 3rd 1.29,677min "I am not unhappy with my result in Free Practice today, even if it’s clear that there’s quite a lot of work ahead of us. With regards to the set-up, we are on the right way but it’s clear that there is some good room for improvement. Tyre choice will be very difficult and critical. We need to have a careful look at the data we have collected, before taking a decision."
	Dr Mario Theissen BMW Motorsports Director "The field is very tight today, with eleven drivers squeezed in just one second. Both our drivers could complete their programme and neither engine experienced any problems. Encouragingly, Ralf set a very fast lap."
	Sam Michael WilliamsF1 Technical Director "We have gone through our programme for the race, testing different brake ducts and tyres. We should be competitive here. There is some more work to do on the set-up and we need to carefully analyse the tyre data."

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