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Williams set good result in qualifying

The changeable weather played a major part in today's qualifying session which started wet and then rained again towards the end of the hour. From the start the track went progressively quicker as more cars ran on a drying circuit but then it became very slow when it started to rain heavily again.

Mark Webber and Antonio Pizzonia, who were among the first cars to go out, achieved the 7th and 12th fastest times respectively.

Mark Webber commented about his qualifying result: "We ran on full wet tyres all morning due to the aqua-planing and since we switched to intermediate tyres for qualifying, the balance of the car was quite different and very difficult to drive to the limit. It was frustrating not to have a better car especially in the second sector which was very hard work. Anyway, the weather helped us at the end."

Antonio Pizzonia said: "Track conditions were pretty different from this morning when we were running on full wet tyres when it was raining a lot. For qualifying we chose to go for intermediate tyres as the rain had stopped and I spun on my out lap because I was pushing hard in order to learn about the grip level. I was quite happy with the balance of the car this morning but we changed some things for qualifying and it didn't help too much. The car was very difficult to drive and unfortunately it didn't go my way today. This doesn't take anything away from the fact that I like this track, no matter if dry or wet, even if I am driving here for the first time. At the moment the weather forecast for tomorrow is for dry weather, so we'll see what happens."

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