Williams angered by Ralf
Williams-BMW was left infuriated after Ralf Schumacher failed to finish the Chinese Grand Prix last weekend. The German sustained damage to his FW26 after contact with McLaren's David Coulthard, but he nursed it back to the pits where his engineers fixed the problem
By then, though, Schumacher was two laps down on the field and refused to go back out to finish the race as he believed obtaining a points finish was no longer possible.
Team boss Frank Williams, though, works on a different philosophy, though, and would have preferred Ralf to finish the race.
"I will be having a talk to him," he said. "I would have preferred it if he had carried on. Up until then he'd done a very good job. We do not feel he would have been two laps down. We always like to get our cars to the end if possible."
Ralf was back in action after missing the last six races as he recovered from two fractured vertebrae sustained in the United States Grand Prix in June. He will leave the team at the end of the year to join Toyota.
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