BMW announce reasons for engine failures

By Andrew Hooper
June 16 2002


	Reasons for engine failures

	The Canadian Grand Prix would see both BMW WilliamsF1 drivers retire with engine failures. For Juan Pablo Montoya it was while he was attempting to chase down the leader and for Ralf it was just after he had completed the race. After the race both engine were sent back to Munich for examination and it was announced by BMW that it was a broken valve which had caused Juan Pablo's engine failure, while the problem that was with Ralf's engine related to a piston. BMW motorsport director Mario Theissen said: " On Wednesday we dismantled the engines. Juan Pablo's engine stopped in the race due to a broken valve. On Ralf's car, a problem with a piston appeared after he had crossed the finish line. It actually was not a failure of the piston itself but of the operating conditions." The next race is at the Nürburgring circuit next weekend and BMW will want to avoid another failure at a circuit considered home for rivals Mercedes, McLaren's partners.

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