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Juan Pablo Montoya is a racing driver Colombia N born the September 20th 1975 with Bogota (Colombia). In Formula 1 between 2001 and 2006, it gained 7 Grands Prix. It left F1 in July 2006 to reconvert itself into the tests of NASCAR to the the United States. He is the only pilot to have gained GP of Monaco in F1, the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, the 24 hours of Daytona, the title Champ Because in the single-seater with the the United States and a race of NASCAR. At one time when the pilots specialize more in one category in particular, Montoya knew to gain in various machines and various types of championships.

Biography

1992 - 1998: Beginnings

As much of pilot, Juan Pablo Montoya started to be interested in the automobile sport via the Karting. It began in this discipline at the 5 years age and became champion of Colombia. In 1992 it launches out in the automobile Compétition full-time, first of all in Colombia (Formule Renault), then with the the United States (Skip To bore Series) and with the Mexico (Formula NR).

In 1995, Montoya leaves to continue in Great Britain. It disputes there successively the national championships of Vauxhall Formula then of Formule 3, discipline in which it gains two victories and finishes 5th with general classification. Sufficient results to give access to him the international championship of F 3000 within the Austrian team Marko in 1997.

They is there that it appears with the greatest number, by gaining a victory of prestige in the streets of Pau. Its direction of the attack, the precision of its piloting as its South American origins is worth to him then to be announced like the future Ayrton Senna, its idol of childhood. Finally second of the championship, it is selected at the end of the year by the stable of F1 Williams - Renault (about to become Williams Mecachrome) to be the new pilot tester about it. In 1998, parallel to its functions at Williams, it disputes and gains the championship of F3000 (within the stable Super Nova) at the conclusion of a long duel with the young German pilot Nick Heidfeld, which it will find later in the groups of Formule 1.

1999 - 2000: The American adventure at Chip Ganassi

At the conclusion of the season 1998, without possibility of reaching directly Formula 1 (Williams having concretized its contacts of long time with the double champion CART Alessandro Zanardi), it is lent by Williams to the stable of CART Chip Ganassi Racing, where it precisely replaces Zanardi. Immediately, and at only 24 years, the Montoya beginner affirms himself like the strong man of the championship, where its piloting makes wonder. But in spite of its 7 victories, Montoya pays its lack of regularity and must await the very last sleeve of the championship to be titrated (for the benefit of the greatest number of victories, since it finishes the season with as many points as its British rival Dario Franchitti). While 1 Formulates some, the season of Zanardi turns to the fiasco, Williams tries to recover its protected, but extremely of its two year old contract, Chip Ganassi manages to preserve the Colombian pilot one year additional. Season 2000 of Montoya will prove much more frustrating that the first. Regularly the fastest man tracks some, it is victim of the recurring unreliability of his Toyota engines. In spite of several victories, it finishes far from Gil de Ferran with the championship. But the year 2000 of Montoya is especially marked by its victorious incursion into the championship IRL (rival series of the CART), at the time of the 500 Miles of Indianapolis. For its very first appearance in the Indiana, over famous the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Montoya dominates the race outrageusement, carrying out 162 of the 200 turns.

2001 - 2004: The arrival Formulates 1 at Williams of them

As envisaged, Montoya is recalled by the Williams stable (from now on motorized by BMW) to dispute there the season 2001. It is highlighted as of the third GP of the season, in Brazil, by making a success of a going beyond spectacular and full with audacity on holding of the title Michael Schumacher at the beginning of race. But whereas it seems to have the race well in hand, it is made leave the track by the Netherlander Jos Verstappen to which it had just taken a turn. At the time of the races which follow, Montoya pains to confirm its beautiful provisions and is made eclipse by its fellow-member Ralf Schumacher. But as from the semi-season, Montoya finds a level in conformity with its ambitions. Unlucky person in Germany, where a driving concern deprives it of a promised victory, it takes down finally its first success in September 2001, at the time of the GP of Italy, disputed in a very heavy context (attacks of September 11th, 2001, and serious accident day before in Champ Because of Alessandro Zanardi).

In 2002, often very shining in qualification (7 poles), it can nothing make in race vis-a-vis the clear superiority of the Ferrari. Contrary to its fellow-member Ralf Schumacher, it does not gain the least race, but finishes 3rd championship. Montoya seems in measurement of finally being able to compete with Michael Schumacher in 2003, since after a very delicate beginning of the season, its Williams-BMW equipped with tires Michelin proves to be the best machine of the plate at the time of the GP with strong heat. Constrained on the abandonment on driving break-in with the GP of Austria whereas it was at the head, it is essential at the time of the most prestigious sleeve of the season on Monaco, like in Germany, but also loses invaluable points in the race with the title at the time of the Grands Prix of Europe and France during which it is made dominate by its Ralf fellow-member and must be satisfied with the second place. With Magny-Course, dissatisfied with turning that its race takes, it is besides in the middle of a violent argument by radio with its engineers, which leads it to immediately start talks with the stable McLaren - Mercedes for the season 2005. The signature of the contract is officialized shortly after the end of the championship. At the time of the last races of the season, the return in form of Ferrari as well as a penalty to the Indianapolis to have hung Barrichello mortgage its last hopes of pilot world title. In addition, its abandonment on mechanical breakage whereas it was at the head with the Japan makes him lose any hope to take the second place of the general with Kimi Raïkkonen while destroying the hopes of title manufacturer of its team.

Always at Williams in 2004, Montoya partly carries out one relatively dull season, due to the failure of astonishing the Williams FW26 (known as nose of Morse ), but also to its always delicate relationships to the direction of the stable. Knowing itself in departure with the end of the year, Montoya always does not show the motivation necessary to the good walk of the team. It leaves however Williams on a victory at the time of the ultimate GP of the season to the Brésil.

2005 - 2006: Hopes disappointed at McLaren

As envisaged since the summer 2003, it joined McLaren in 2005. But its integration with its new team is strongly disturbed by a wound with the shoulder which obliges it to miss 2 Grands Prix at the beginning of season. If the official version gives a report on a slip at the time of a match of tennis, semi-official versions evoke an accident with the handlebar of a motorized machine (quad or moto-cross), which for some, a shade throws on the professionalism of the Colombian pilot. After having left F1, he will explain why it is following the rumors on the circumstances of this wound that its relations with its owner Ron Dennis started to worsen.

Slightly handicapped by this wound in the weeks which follow its return to the competition, Montoya must wait the semi-season to show all its potential finally. He gradually manages to compete with his fellow-member Kimi Räikkönen in pure performances and takes down 3 victories, including one memorable in Monza where its back tire started to be shredded with some turns of the goal. But it also makes watch annoying irregularity of performance on this level of the competition, by multiplying the errors (exit ramp, fixings).

Awaited for its second season at McLaren in 2006, Montoya is however repudiated by its own team as of the month of December 2005. By announcing the arrival of Alonso for 2007 like her will to preserve Kimi Räikkönen, the McLaren team clearly indicates to the Colombian pilot that it does not count any more on him in the medium term. This delicate situation results in disappointing services of Montoya at the time of first half of season 2006. Without true future prospects 1 Formulates some, even if rumors gave a report on a possible return in 2007 at Williams, the team of its beginnings, Montoya announces with the general surprise the July 9th 2006 its departure for NASCAR in the United States, within the Chip Ganassa Racing. The August 14th 2006, in an interview granted to the Colombian newspaper “ El Tiempo ”, it will justify this decision by the trouble which it tested in Formulated 1 and its little of motivation to fight at the wheel of a car unable to aim at the victory.

July 11th, is only two days after the advertisement of Montoya, the McLaren stable announces the replacement of the Colombian pilot by Pedro of Rosa, the pilot tester house, as from the Grand Prix of France. If anticipated separation is carried out officially by mutual agreement between the Colombian and his stable in order to enable him to prepare its reconversion as well as possible, some rather see there a true setting with foot: already criticized in-house for his services with GP of Canada and that of the the United States (where it had clung at the beginning with its Raikkonen fellow-member), the Colombian would have completed to exasperate his employer by announcing in a unilateral way his departure in NASCAR, and taking of short the communication of McLaren. The way in which Ron Dennis will delay thereafter the beginnings in NASCAR of Montoya, while alleging that the Colombian is by contract dependant with McLaren until December 31st, 2006 testifies besides to the tension having surrounded separation of the two parts.

2006 - 2007: Beginnings in Nascar at Chip Ganassi

During the summer 2006, Juan Pablo Montoya signs a three year old contract with the Chip Ganassi Racing (the stable with which it shone in the championship CART in 1999 and 2000, and with the 500 miles of Indianapolis 2000) to control in NASCAR the Dodge n°42, led hitherto by Casey Mears. Initially, it is expected that its contract begins only as from the season 2007, but its rupture anticipated with McLaren enables him to start its training of the stock-car races as of the autumn 2006, after an agreement was found with the team of Ron Dennis.

The first stock-car race of Montoya takes place the October 6th 2006 on the Circuit of Talladega in a test of the series ARCA RE/MAX Series, a championship semi-professional where old Nascar cars are committed. The second time of the qualifications, to only nine thousandth of the poleman, it finishes the race in third position, behind Frank Kimmel (former champion of the series and leader of the championship) and Steve Wallace. It takes part then in the three last tests 2006 of championship NASCAR Busch Series (with one 10th place in qualifications and one 11th place on arrival as better results) and in the very last test of the season of NASCAR Nextel Cup (the queen category of the NASCAR) on the oval of Miami. It makes overall beautiful impression but must give up following a spectacular consecutive accident with a touchette with Ryan Newman.

The 27 and January 28th 2007, it makes profitable the short intersaison in NASCAR to take part in the 24 hours of Daytona (handle of the championship of endurance Large-Am). Associated with Scott Pruett and El Salvador Duran, it gains the race over a proto with engine Lexus of the Chip Ganassi Racing.

Its first complete season in NASCAR Nextel Cup begins two weeks later by prestigious Daytona 500, qu ' it finishes in the 18th place at the end of a complicated race. All in all, the continuation of season in Nextel Cup proves quite as difficult in spite of a first arrival in “Signal 5” with Atlanta the March 18th.

Parallel to its full-time engagement in Nextel Cup, it also disputes several tests in Busch Series. It is in this championship that it gains at the beginning of March its first success in NASCAR at the time of the test of Mexico City, disputed on a road circuit.

The June 24th 2007, Montoya gains its first victory in Nextel Cup over the road circuit of Infineon Raceway in Sonoma in California, becoming thus the second controls not American (after the Canadian Earl Ross with Martinsville in 1974) to be essential in the queen category of the NASCAR, and the third pilot to have gained at the same time in Formule 1, IndyCar and NASCAR, after the American Mario Andretti and daN Gurney. Left the 32e place (never a winner had not sprung of so far on this layout), it knew to go up slowly and to manage well its petrol consumption in end of the road. He knows less success at the time of the weekend of Watkins Glen (the other road circuit registered with the calendar) August 11th and 12th when, very waited, he is constrained with the abandonment on fixing at the time of the race of Busch Series like in that of Nextel Cup to 15 turns of the arrival. Finally at the end of the season, it gains officially the title of rookie of the year.

Statistics Formulates 1 of them

( After the Grand Prix of the United States 2006 ).

  • Many seasons in F1: 6

  • Grands Prix disputés' : 95
  • Victories : 7 ( is 7,37% )
  • marked Points : 307
    • Average of points by GP: 3,23 points'
    • Average of points per season: 51,17 points'
  • Pole Positions : 13 ( is 13,68% )
  • Départs 1st line : 26 ( is 27,37% )
  • Second places in Grand Prix : 15 ( is 15,79% )
  • Third places in Grand Prix : 8 ( is 8,42% )
  • Podiums : 30 ( is 31,58% )
  • In the Points : 57 ( is 60,00% )
  • Meilleurs Turns : 12 ( is 12,63% )
  • no. races while having carried out : 32 ( is 33,68% )
  • Tours at the head : 617 ( is 12,54% of the traversed turns )
  • km at the head : 2.966 ( is 12,54% of the distance covered )
  • traversed Tours : 4.917
  • Kms traversed : 23.658
  • Hats trick ( Victoire/Pole position/Better turn ): 1 ( is 1,05% )
  • Abandons : 31 ( is 32,63% )
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  • Position with the championship 2006 : 6th - 26 points ( after 10 races )
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Results per season Formulates 1 of them

Victories in Championship of the world of Formula 1

Others

  • Juan Pablo Montoya is married in Connie. Together, they had a son (Sebastian) and a girl (Paulina).
  • Federico Montoya, the younger brother of Juan Pablo, also launched out in the automobile sport. But after disappointing experiments in Europe in Formula BMW and Formula Renault, it is turned over to North America, where it carries out a beautiful career in Karting.

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