Ralf has 'moved on'

"I have already moved on from the accident at Melbourne, and worrying about whose fault it was," he said. "I am determined to only look forward this season without worrying about what has happened in the past, because it is pointless. The pressure hasn't increased as far as I am concerned; a season is 17 races long and nothing can be decided at the start."

Ralf qualified third on the grid in Australia, but was almost half a second behind polesitter Rubens Barrichello. In the race team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya briefly led, but he was unable to keep ahead of Michael Schumacher and eventually he finished a distant second. However, BMW's Gerhard Berger is not concerned and believes the performance gap in Malaysia will be a lot less, if not reversed completely.

"Ferrari's win in Melbourne wasn't a big surprise to me," he admitted. "I always said that Ferrari will be the benchmark this year. The situation reminds me of 2001 when Ferrari won the season's opening race and was under pressure two weeks later in Malaysia. Williams have undertaken some testing recently, including trying a range of modifications over race distances. I also expect that our package of chassis, engine and tyres will profit from the high temperatures at Sepang, and we will get close to the Ferraris."