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BMW
achieved its goal in the Third Season with a second place in the FIA Formula One
Constructors' World Championship, in only the third year after its comeback. In
2002, the ten-cylinder powerplant from Munich propelled the BMW WilliamsF1 Team
and its drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher to a one-two victory and
an additional eleven podium places.
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The team
laid an early claim to second place in the World Championship. In reliability
rankings, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team finished the 2002 season in first place: no
other team logged so many racing laps; 1,963 out of a possible 2,180.
There were three more
records too; best engine performance, highest rev count, and the earliest test
outing for the new 2003 engine. The final evolution of the P82, in action since
Monza, delivered 900 bhp and clocked over 19,000 revolutions a minute. At Monza
it helped Juan Pablo Montoya to set the fastest qualifying
lap in the history of Formula One.
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The BMW WilliamsF1 Team was the
only team in the 2002 season to challenge the dominant Ferrari team,
particularly when it came to qualifying.
Montoya took a total of seven pole
positions (Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Europe, England, France and
Italy). At the European Grand Prix on the Nürburgring, both BMW
WilliamsF1 Team cars were on the front row of the grid together.
Early on in the season BMW and
WilliamsF1 celebrated the first one-two victory of their partnership
when Ralf Schumacher won the Malaysian Grand Prix ahead of Montoya.
But after that the celebratory champagne ran dry for the team as
Michael Schumacher in his Ferrari blasted his way to his fifth World
Championship title.
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