Williams Move On after Disqualification

Williams have learned their lesson and moved on from last Sunday's double disqualification in Canada.

Frank Williams and German driver Ralf Schumacher, stripped of second place in Montreal after his car failed a post-race inspection, were at pains to point out on Thursday that the Formula One team had made an honest mistake.

"It was just an unfortunate incident...we have never and will never cheat," Ralf told a US Grand Prix news conference.

Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya also lost his fifth place because of the brake duct irregularity with Williams giving away precious points in the battle to regain third place in the Championship.

"You could say the responsibility stops with me at the end of the day," said Williams. "But we're a large organisation and it was a chain of events that occurred that I'm not going to dissect here. But we were very clumsy with that particular part.

"I hope you all believe that there was no implication whatsoever in seeking aerodynamic advantage with that by cheating. We made a mistake, we paid a heavy price and we have no quarrel with it.

"It's behind us as far as I and the team are concerned and we'd far rather talk about this weekend. You learn from your mistakes and we learned very heavily last weekend."

Great Race

The Canadian Grand Prix would have given Ralf his first podium of the season as well as being the team's best performance in a disappointing campaign.

"It doesn't change the fact that we had a great race, I think everybody saw that," said Michael Schumacher's younger brother. "We can have another good one here but it is a little bit more difficult."

The Williams, with its radically-styled 'walrus nose', has not lived up to expectations and a major aerodynamic revamp has been talked about for the next race in France. However, Williams refused to be pinned down on the detail.

"Maybe France, maybe Britain, maybe the next race (after that). It depends what performance it brings," he said. "It's a modest change you might say, but we hope it brings an advantage and if it doesn't you won't see it.

"You won't see change until we've got something really worthwhile for these boys to do justice to their careers," added the team boss. "Clearly the car in very simple terms compared to its peers that we are trying to beat is insufficiently quick around the parts that matter, that is to say around the corners.

"We have adequate horsepower, we'd always like more but that's not our concern...hopefully with a slight change of direction we will see improvement but we are not competitive by our standards at this time."