Juan Pablo Montoya career formula one missed the expectations modest.Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya driving for Mclaren garage toverusten to half the period 2005-2006. EPA/AOP
Formula 3000 -class champion in 1998 crowned and immediately following the season in North america in the CART series championship, winning the Juan Pablo Montoya debuted in formula one with Williams at the wheel of season 2001.
Williams had noticed his gift in 1997, and Montoya get to test the garage the car at the time, for the first time. Test the end result as well as Montoya Max Wilson make the Williams agreements with the test driver.
montoya’s F1 career began in the Ralf Schumacher teammate. The start of the new series was quite unique.
Montoya was interrupted by four of the first race until the Spanish GP became immediately the career of the first prize podium placement, second place. The following three competition ended another interruption, until at the nürburgring driving in the European GP, the result was again in second place.
Montoya lost to Schumacher still in the first season, but three the following season marching order, turned the colombian’s favor.
for the Period 2005 front was a move to Mclaren, the stables, whom Montoya had made an agreement already in 2003. As a teammate, he got a Kimi Raikkonen .
Lousy car
Time for a new team from the beginning was difficult.
I didn’t say it in public then how much I had problems with Mclaren in 2005, the car I drive or how much I hated it. Oh, my goodness, I couldn’t ride it, Montoya said Tom Clarkson derives from going Beyond the Grid-a podcast.
– run my car the first time I came instantly after the first round to the pits and said that the car will need to be broken. The mechanic gasped. I said that when I turn the steering wheel, feel that the rear end is something broken. They took the car through hours and said that it was fine. The car only had one.
Montoya reached in 2005 by car in spite of all three race wins and ranked in the world cup series in fourth. Raikkonen won in the same season in seven races and ranked Fernando Alonso after the world number two. Many consider the Finnish season’s fastest driver, but the MP4-20 car was not sufficiently reliable.
– If that car would have been similar to the balance than Williams, I would have won two rounds. That car was terrible to drive, and still won. I was just wondering how it was possible, Montoya said.
I kept the matter quiet. It would have been disrespectful to say that the car behaves like shit. I should have said that I had a really difficult it with a car, but I never said so publicly.
Starting mid-season
In late 2005 began big problems Montoya and mclaren’s.
the Garage was Montoyaan related to options in 2007, but team boss Ron Dennis did not want to use it yet. At that time it was already known that Raikkonen to leave ferrari for the 2006 season after Alonso move from Renault to Mclaren at the same time.
I Thought that either they want me or not. If I could, I could very well be somewhere else. From that point onwards I started looking into my own future as well as it, where to go and what to do, Montoya said recently mclaren’s website.
Eventually, in July 2006, the world spread the news that Montoya and mclaren’s roads would get a divorce immediately. Montoya was replaced in mid-July ride in the French GP on from Pedro de la Rosa , who worked for Mclaren at the time test driver.
I didn’t leave of my own initiative. They asked me to leave. I was going to the next race, as Ron said, that my thoughts are somewhere else. They didn’t want me to continue, Montoya said on a podcast.
with hindsight, many noted that Montoya and mclaren’s marriage was doomed to failure even before it begins. Fire soul-the colombian didn’t believe applied to mclaren’s conservative business culture, as well as Dennis’s hard to control, with which raikkonen has had their own problems.
Montoya returned to North America, the united states, where had always wanted to live in, and enter into the CART-years, a familiar Chip Ganassi with a five-year Nascar contract.
He did not, in his words, repent F1:on leaving, and the only one who tried to attract him back, Bernie Ecclestone .
– Bernie called me once and asked why I left. I said that I had signed a five-year contract. He tried again after that, but the only place where I’d returned, was Ferrari.
– When Michael ( Schumacher ) was there, I would have been only the second driver, and I didn’t want that.
”It was reckless”F1-newcomers to model year 2001: Kimi Raikkonen, 21 (left), Juan Pablo Montoya, 25, Fernando Alonso, 19, and Enrique Bernoldi, 22. ZUMAWIRE.COM/MVPHOTOS
Montoya and Raikkonen between them has been talked about in F1 circles over the years, more than adequately.
Many remember the first kipinöinnit the duo between 2002 Belgian GP qualifying, while Montoya looked Raikkonen ruined his round and give this an earful.
–Fucking Raikkonen! What a fucking idiot! at the time, yet Williams drove Montoya foaming the garage radio.
Two years ago, driven to the Mexican GP:no context does not belong to just this brimstone-smelling words, when Montoya talk Räikköstä.
on a Recent podcast in Clarkson asked Montoyalta directly, how does this get along with Raikkonen.
– It was okay. She was quiet. He was Ron’s golden boy, but I was expecting it, Montoya download.
Clarkson pointed out that Montoya was also the top of Ron Dennis ‘ popularity, hankkihan this colombian to Mclaren long before Williams-the expiration of the contract.
– we had a lot of problems at Mclaren, but that’s the way it is, Montoya was content to say.
Ron and his family were awesome to me. The garage treated me very well. I see them still, and I like it. But it was difficult. It contains a lot of garage of internal drama.
Clarkson asked Montoyalta also, which one of this teammate was better, Ralf Schumacher or Raikkonen.
– Kimi drove the better race. His race pace was really good. They were both really fast. Kim party so much then, and it was reckless.
– did he really? Clarkson said.
I don’t know, ask him. I washed this hand, Montoya replied.
– did he ever you? Clarkson continued.
No.
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