Montoya third after San Marino Qualifying


Montoya

By Andrew Hooper
April 25 2004

BMW WilliamsF1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya would finish third after the final qualifying session at Imola for the San Marino Grand Prix. Team-mate ralf Schumacher dropped down the order to be fifth. Pole was secured by BAR's Jenson Button.

   
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The results of qualifying would not produce the BMW WilliamsF1 pole position that one was hoping for, especially after the first and second quickest times in the opening qualifying run. Juan Pablo would finish in third but Ralf would drop down to fifth.

MontoyaJuan Pablo commented after qualifying by saying: "I think we've got a very good race car. I was actually lacking pace on new tyres and with the work we did it seemed to come to me a little bit. I'm very pleased to be honest. I think we have a very strong race car."

Pole was secured by BAR's Jenson Button, who was to claim his maiden pole position. His lap of 1m:19.753 was 0.258 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Michael Schumacher. Team-mate Rubens Barrichello was fourth joining Juan Pablo on the second row. The third row would be occupied by Ralf and Renault's Fernando Alonso.

Button's teammate Takuma Sato, Jaguar's Mark Webber, Renault driver Jarno Trulli and Cristiano Da Matta, of Toyota, completed the top-ten.

Both Kimi Raikkonen and Giancarlo Fisichella will begin from the back row of the grid after opting against setting lap times. They will e joined by Minardi driver Zsolt Baumgartner who spun at the Variante Alta and ended more than 25 seconds off the quickest time.

Raikkonen was to complete only an installation lap as the team was to swap his engine.
 
Pos Driver Team Time Gap

1. (16) Button BAR-Honda (M) 1:19.753
2. (18) M. Schumacher Ferrari (B) 1:20.011 + 0.258
3. (20) Montoya WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:20.212 + 0.459
4. (14) Barrichello Ferrari (B) 1:20.451 + 0.698
5. (19) R. Schumacher WilliamsF1-BMW (M) 1:20.538 + 0.785
6. (7) Alonso Renault (M) 1:20.895 + 1.142
7. (13) Sato BAR-Honda (M) 1:20.913 + 1.160
8. (10) Webber Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:20.921 + 1.168
9. (9) Trulli Renault (M) 1:21.034 + 1.281
10. (8) da Matta Toyota (M) 1:21.087 + 1.334
11. (17) Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes (M) 1:21.091 + 1.338
12. (6) Massa Sauber-Petronas (B) 1:21.532 + 1.779
13. (11) Panis Toyota (M) 1:21.558 + 1.805
14. (5) Klien Jaguar-Cosworth (M) 1:21.949 + 2.196
15. (3) Pantano Jordan-Ford (B) 1:23.352 + 3.599
16. (4) Heidfeld Jordan-Ford (B) 1:23.488 + 3.735
17. (2) Bruni Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:26.899 + 7.146
18. (1) Baumgartner Minardi-Cosworth (B) 1:46.299 +26.546
19. (12) Raikkonen McLaren-Mercedes (M) No Time
20. (15) Fisichella Sauber-Petronas (B) No Time
 
 
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