Juan Pablo Montoya
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- 42
- Chevrolet
- Height: 5-6
- Weight: 159
- Born: Sep 20, 1975, Bogota,
News and Notes
Oct 28
This week: Montoya moved up one position in the standings but is 200 points out of the lead after hanging in there through the first four races of the Chase. Montoya has just one top-five finish at Talladega, second in April 2008, in five starts. He was 35th last year and 20th in April, when he started on the pole.
Last week: Montoya scratched and fought and clawed his way to a third-place finish at Martinsville. "When people are clean with you, you're going to be clean with them," Montoya said. "When they race the hell out of you, you're going to do the same. That's what it is. But you're going to be ending beating it, banging it and hitting it and getting hit. It's part of the deal. It's fun."
Etc.: Montoya said he enjoys Talladega even though it's so stressful. The key question, in his mind, is whether to try to save the engine. "You come off the truck with whatever you think is fastest, and if it doesn't do anything crazy, you park the car," he said. "You probably do 10 laps of practice, make sure all the temperatures look good. Qualify the car and race it and see what happens. It will be interesting to see what kind of strategy you play during the race because there is always two ways of looking at it. Do you need points and want to try to lead as many laps (as you can)? Or do you play conservative and play it at the end? It is always a challenge, especially with the side-by-side restarts. It is going to be 'whew' -- pretty wild. I think it is going to be cool."
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