Dismal qualifying for Williams

Jenson Button out-qualified team-mate Ralf Schumacher by 0.01s but the pair were only fighting for 18th position, neither of them able to get the Williams FW22 tuned into the tight circuit.

Button felt that there were several reasons why he was so far back.

"It's really annoying because on my second run I was quite well up although I made a mistake in the last two corners," he explained. "Then we waited until the end to go out and I think we should not. My car had an engine problem so for my last timed lap I had to jump into the T-car, which wasn't set up for me and had a completely different set-up."

Technical director Patrick Head was thoroughly unimpressed with his team's performance.

"We've had a very poor qualifying and it's going to make the race very difficult for both the drivers," he said. "We have a lot of thinking to do but we are going to do our best to have a reliable race tomorrow and do better in the future."

"We have been slow the whole weekend," Schumacher added. "We have tried many things but we couldn't set up the car."