Montoya aims for qualifying speed

Schumacher has won the last two grands prix and finished runner-up in the race before those in Canada, while Montoya has finished behind him on each occasion.

"I think we are both capable of doing it [winning races]," Montoya told the Daily Telegraph. "I think 80 per cent of the grid are capable of doing it if they have the right car. I just need to step up a level and I think the only area is qualifying because I have been quicker than him [Ralf Schumacher] in the races.

"I don't see Ralf taking the team lead. We are just six points apart. I could have won Austria and that is 10 points. I would be ahead of him. You add up the races I have not finished and I should be ahead of him. In qualifying he is a bit stronger but I have been a lot more consistently at the front."

Montoya told the newspaper that he had changed his approach since the Austrian Grand Prix, which he was leading when his BMW engine failed: "Patrick said to me, 'Look sometimes you are better off not going flat out, save a few tenths and you will always be there'. I thought that was a decent approach and I have done it since Austria. I have been on the first few rows every race."

"I think the team's ambition, and this not what you hear from everybody, is that the most important thing for Williams is the constructors' championship, and not the drivers', and they are not going to throw that away if we start taking each other off, so I have got to start scoring good points every race."