MONTREAL, Canada, 15 June 2003 — Ralf Schumacher claimed his second successive pole position as his teammate Juan Pablo Montoya helped claim an all-Williams front row for the Canadian Grand Prix here yesterday.

Schumacher and Montoya both ran early in the session after struggling in the rain on Friday, but their times proved untouchable in yesterday’s grid-deciding qualifying hour.

The German driver set the pace with a lap of one min 15.529sec to land the third pole of his career after also starting the previous race in Monaco from the head of the field.

Colombian Montoya secured second spot despite being almost four-tenths of a second adrift of his teammate.

World champion Michael Schumacher will start from third for Ferrari with Renault’s Spaniard Fernando Alonso joining him on the second row of the grid.

Ferrari’s Rubens Barrichello, the last man on the track, was fifth fastest and Jaguar driver Mark Webber continued his impressive run of form in qualifying by setting the sixth best time of the session.

Toyota duo Olivier Panis and Cristiano Da Matta will start from seventh and ninth respectively, with Renault’s Jarno Trulli sandwiched in between in eighth.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen, of Sauber, completes the top-ten.

McLaren’s David Coulthard could only qualify 11th while his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, the championship leader, abandoned his run after a mistake at the second corner. Home favorite Jacques Villeneuve was the first man on track following his spin in Friday’s session and he set a benchmark time of one min 17.347sec to leave him 14th. His time was immediately beaten by Trulli, using the spare car following a crash in warm-up.

Giancarlo Fisichella was unable to better the pair for Jordan and he ended 1.318 seconds adrift of fellow Italian Trulli’s time.

Brazilian Antonio Pizzonia bettered Villeneuve to go second quickest before his compatriot Da Matta ended just a tenth down on Trulli.

Bentleys Lead Le Mans

After One Hour

The Bentley team had opened up a one-minute advantage an hour into the Le Mans 24-Hour race yesterday.

Italian Rinaldo Capello, driving the number seven Bentley, held on to the lead from pole position with Johnny Herbert narrowly behind him in the team’s second entry.

After 19 laps, the two were running nose to tail ahead of the rest of the field including the three Audi cars. Dane Jan Magnussen lies third in his Audi, with teammates Finn J.J. Lehto and German Frank Biela fourth and fifth.