Spa (BEL). The BMW WilliamsF1 Team suffered bad luck today, with neither car crossing the finish line despite showing a strong performance. Juan Pablo Montoya and Antonio Pizzonia failed to collect any points from an exciting and eventful Belgian Grand Prix due to a tyre failure for the Colombian and a gearbox problem for the Brazilian. The problems spelt a premature end to their races when both drivers were running in a strong third position.

Juan Pablo Montoya: DNF (tyre failure on lap 37)
Chassis: FW26 06
Best time: 1:46.547 min (lap36, 6th overall)
Bad luck again, today. The car was really good and I was having a good race and running third with a few laps to go, but then the right rear tyre failed, and some other parts of the car were damaged forcing me to retire. That's racing, what can you do? It's not the first time that this has happened and probably not the last, but one has to accept it. Still, it was a good race. In spite of my poor grid position I had a good start and gained several places, helped by the accidents on the first lap. I'd climbed up to fifth by lap five and basically battled all race in the top positions. The team helped me by doing very good pit-stops and coming up with a good strategy so it's a real shame what happened to me and Antonio today.