Williams Satisfied Despite Lack of Pace

The Williams team were satisfied with the result achieved at the Spanish Grand Prix despite finishing far from race winner Michael Schumacher.

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya was fourth for the Grove-based outfit, finishing ahead of teammate Ralf Schumacher after another lively duel between the two. Montoya, however, crossed the finish line more than a minute behind Ferrari driver Schumacher.

"The car was quite difficult to drive initially and I decided just to pace myself in order to get to the end of the race and get some good points from this race," Montoya said after the race. "We had balanced the car in a different way than usual and it was therefore more difficult to drive but towards the end of the race when there was more grip on the track the tyres worked much better and the car felt pretty good.

"It was good fun today, I enjoyed the racing and I am glad we could collect some good points."

German Ralf Schumacher, who ran in front of Montoya for most of the race, made a mistake in the second part of the event, going off the track and damaging the floor and other parts of his car.

As a result of the incident, the German driver, who was forced to pit, struggled with oversteer and dropped back, finishing a lap behind in fifth position.

"After all the testing we did on this track, we thought we could achieve a better result," he said. "But after the struggle that we went through this weekend, we are reasonably happy with fourth and fifth positions. When I went off the circuit a part of my bodywork got ripped, which caused my car to oversteer quite a lot.

"In the last 16 laps I had a hard but fair fight with Cristiano da Matta. All in all this weekend showed that we have a lot of work ahead of us."