Ralf Aims to Make Up for Monaco Disappointment

Germany's Ralf Schumacher is targeting victory tomorrow after seizing his second successive pole position as Williams swept champions Ferrari off the Canadian Grand Prix front row on Saturday.

While McLaren's Championship leader Kimi Raikkonen suffered a nightmare afternoon, failing to clock a time after skidding off and clouting the tyre wall on his flying lap, resurgent Williams set the pace.

Ralf lapped the Gilles Villeneuve circuit, named after Canada's late Ferrari driver, in 1:15.529 as the morning rain lifted. His Colombian teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, winner of the season's glamour race in Monaco two weeks ago, slotted in alongside him with a time 0.394 slower.

It was the first all-Williams front row of the season and the third career pole for the German, who won in Montreal in 2001 but has yet to stand on the podium this year despite scoring points in every race.

"We were expecting something in the top five but this is an excellent result for the team," said Ralf. "I had a really good lap. My car was well balanced and everything worked out well. Furthermore I believe we are on a good race strategy, but just two weeks ago I experienced what can happen and change over a race distance.

"Of course it is my target to win here having missed out in Monaco, especially as I really like this circuit and Montreal a lot. I am sure we are facing an exciting race."

Montoya was wary of revealing too much about the team's fuel strategy, with cars now qualifying on different loads, but he was quietly confident.

"It really shows that the car has got a lot of potential, we said at the beginning of the year that the car has the potential to win and we're really getting the best out of it at the moment," he said.