Montoya not surprised with Ferrari speed

By Andrew Hooper
March 6 2004

   
Montoya not surprised
 
After seeing the Ferrari pair of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello head qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix Juan Pablo Montoya said that he was not surprised by this result.

Montoya in post qualifying interview.After qualifying Michael Schumacher would be over half a second faster than the WilliamsF1 driver. Montoya gave his view of how Ferrari achieved this result.

Juan Pablo said: "I think on the basis of the last test we did we knew they [Ferrari] found something new in the tyres and they were going to be very strong. Most of the testing we did (was) when they had the old car. It was easy to have the upper hand on them and it was clear that Bridgestone was kind of struggling.

"They were doing a lot of tests, and probably found something that gave them a bit of an edge. It's a long season and last year we were struggling from race one. We qualified third this year. But you can't really count anybody in or out. You've got to finish, score the points and see what happens at the end of the year."

As for his chances in tomorrows race Juan Pablo was confident of a good race, after having made a considerable number of changes to his FW26.

He added: "I was a bit surprised how many problems we had yesterday with the car (and) to really make it work we had to do a lot of changes," said Montoya. "I'm a lot happier with the car now and I think I have a really good race car."
 
 
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