Kuala Lumpur, Mar 21: Feuding Williams drivers Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya have been told they had better behave in the Malaysian Grand Prix. Team boss Frank Williams told a news conference on Friday he was happy for the Formula One rivals to race hard and bang wheels, but they must not ram each other off the track. The two clashed at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in an incident that led Ralf to threaten Montoya with serious consequences if he tried the same overtaking manoeuvre again.

"It was a pretty strong move and next time I will have him off the track," he said on Thursday.
Williams was confident the two would see sense despite the evident ill-feeling between very different characters who have failed to click since they teamed up in 2001.


"Under racing conditions they are free to race, and they are free to compete and they are free to bump wheels if it's the only way of getting by," said the team boss.


"What they are not allowed to do is push their team mates off. That is the divide. Words come easily in the heat of the moment, commonsense will prevail."


Colombian Montoya is leaving Williams for McLaren at the end of the season while Ralf, younger brother of Ferrari's world champion Michael, is deep in contract negotiations and is also rumoured to be departing.


However Schumacher refused to be drawn into speculation." Most certainly it's only rumours, " he said "There's no truth at all in that . At the moment we're with Williams and we're still talking and I don't talk about any other team at the moment."


Bureau Report