| In a
recent interview at the German Grand Prix BMW WilliamsF1 driver Juan Montoya
spoke of Marc Gene and how it was a difficult situation for the Spaniard to
walk into having to replace Ralf Schumacher.
 But
despite having to see Marc replaced after just two races Juan Pablo would
work just as closely with Antonio Pizzonia, who replaced Marc for the German
Grand Prix.
Juan Pablo said: "I think he was unlucky. He made a couple of mistakes in
qualifying at the last race, and was then stuck in traffic all race. I think
he lost a bit of an opportunity there because, throughout the weekend, he
was very fast.
"It is strange to work with somebody else every race, but that is the way it
is. It is harder for the rest of the team than for myself. It is harder for
the race engineer than me. I am doing the best I can at every race, with my
people working around my car.
"With Marc, I tended to help him quite a bit because he asked. If Antonio
asks, I will help him. Of course, if I have a problem and he seems to be
going the better direction than me, then, for sure, I will ask him questions
too."
As for his prospects this weekend Juan Pablo felt that with the changes been
made to the FW26 he should be able to move closer to the front of the field
this weekend.
Juan Pablo added: "I think the last couple of races have turned things a
little bit our way. There are a couple of things coming on the car, and it
is nice to see that, but I think that there is still a long way to go to
really be fully competitive.
"I think a lot of aerodynamic things are fixed. It doesn't really change the
way you have got to run the car. At Silverstone, we had a couple of new
things on it and improved. We have new things here, and I think we have
started to get a normal rate of development race-by-race. I just think that,
in the first six months, we fell back so much that it really cost us." |
