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Posted 25 May 2015 - 00:14



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Posted 25 May 2015 - 12:24

The RACER Channel's Robin Miller interviews Indy winner Juan Montoya, with an assistant from son Sebastian following his thrilling victory in Sunday's 99th Indianapolis 500.

 

 

The RACER Channel's Robin Miller talks with Roger Penske after The Captain scored his 16th Indy 500 triumph and got a 1-2 sweep with Juan Montoya edging Will Power.

 

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Posted 25 May 2015 - 15:34

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Posted 25 May 2015 - 21:39

Indy 500: 2000 Indy win was easier, Montoya says
Monday, 25 May 2015


 

Juan Pablo Montoya says his first Indianapolis 500 win in 2000 was "easy" compared with his victory in this year's event on Sunday.

 

Montoya won Indy as a rookie 15 years ago (BELOW), when his Ganassi team became the first CART frontrunner to come back to the race in the Indy Racing League/Champ Car split period. Then the reigning CART champion, Montoya dominated the race throughout.

 

His second triumph was earned after a tense late battle with Penske team-mate Will Power and Ganassi's Scott Dixon, and following an early delay to repair damage incurred when Simona de Silvestro hit the back of his car.

 

"2000 was the start of my career," said Montoya. "I was really young.

 

"We came here, had a really good car, we dominated. That was an easy race. But this was a lot of work. When you have to work for it that hard, it's exciting.

 

"We kept adding downforce and adjusting the car. After the caution, when I was running eighth, I could barely keep up with them. I'm like, 'We don't have anything.' Then as we kept adjusting the car: 'Oh, that's a little better, that's a little better.'

 

"That's what you've got to do, stay on top of the track. What really matters is the last 15 laps. That was fun."

 

Montoya believes the controversial new aero kits helped make the late overtaking possible.

 

"The aero kits have been a huge plus," he said. "We had racing that good because of the aero kits.

 

"IndyCar is going in the right direction. Of course, you're going to get a lot of people criticize it, look for the bad side of everything. But, no, it's really cool."

 

He fought back into a winning position despite needing a new rear wing assembly having been hit by Andretti driver de Silvestro during an early caution. The Colombian admitted he had been anxious about such incidents after only qualifying 15th.

 

"That's what happens when you qualify bad," he said. "You find yourself with the wrong crowd.

 

"Simona didn't do it on purpose. She wants to prove she's that good. She has a lot of speed. But when you're racing for a job, it's a lot harder. You've got to understand the big picture."



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Posted 25 May 2015 - 21:43

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Posted 26 May 2015 - 00:46

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Posted 26 May 2015 - 13:01

Q&A with Indy 500 winner Juan Montoya
Monday, 25 May 2015


 

THE MODERATOR: We'll go ahead and get started with our availability with the winner of the 99th Indianapolis 500, Juan Pablo Montoya.

A little less than 24 hours since you took the checkered flag there. Has it sunk in yet that you've won the Indy 500 for a second time?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I think it has. Sorry, my voice is not at its best after the screaming yesterday.

I think yesterday it did. I mean, as I was coming to the line, I was really happy. It was like, It's happening. You know, it's pretty cool.

After that, I don't know, I get really excited for a very short time, then it's, Let's move on, next. You know what I mean?

Even last night I was thinking, OK, we got to make sure, you know, we done really well this year so far, we got pretty much four podiums in six races, two wins out of six races. We got to make sure we keep the ball rolling if we want to try to win the championship.

You know that Will's going to be there every week. Dixon is going to be there every week, so... It's going to be hard.

It's exciting. It's exciting to start the season like that. So it's pretty cool.

THE MODERATOR: Does this win, 15 years after you won your first, does it mean more because your family was here, your kids were here?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I think each win is exciting in its own way. This one was really special because it's the last one I had. You know what I mean? It sounds funny when you say 15 years. It sounds like a long time. To be honest, we have done so many things apart from IndyCar, I really just done this three times. I still feel like I got to learn a lot. Like I still feel like we suck in qualifying. We were unlucky, but we're not as good as we need to be.

We really worked in race trim, to make sure I could run the car the way I wanted to, be comfortable with it, be aggressive with it. That's what we did and we were good.

Q. Juan, it seemed like all of your former buddies down in NASCAR were watching. They all sent you congratulations. What is it like to know that these guys are really following you in this race?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: It's great. It's amazing. I got messages from the guys from NASCAR. I got messages from my old racing years in Formula 1, people that I worked with in Formula 1.

It's pretty cool. You know, people care. I think whoever I'm working with, I feel I'm part of the family. Here at Penske, especially. They make you really part of the family.


But I always feel like I'm part of the crew. I don't feel like I'm above any guys. We all work as hard. They put actually more hours than I do to give me the car to be able to do this.

I do consider this to be a complete team effort.

Q. It was one of the great finishes that this race has ever seen. Then you said you move on. Next week you've got two really tough races in Detroit with your teammates wanting to beat you, Dixon and the guys ganging up. How do you get a mindset from today when you're still sort of celebrating going to Detroit?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I mean, I'm busy this week. We're going to New York tomorrow. We're going to Dallas. I just heard we're going to Dallas the next day. Then I go to Detroit.

I don't know. Just focus on the job in hand. It's time to get in the car and get the job done. This week we had a lot of time early in the week to work on Detroit. We looked at setups already. We looked at where we want to start, the things we want to try.


We kept moving forward, to be honest. You have to. I mean, you never plan on winning. I mean, you plan on coming here and doing as well as you can. You can't go, You're going to win.

Like the wife yesterday, she said, "I need to organize the bags for New York before the race." I said, "What are you smoking (laughter)?"

I do know I had a really good car, I had a good shot at winning this. So do a lot of people, so...

I mean, it's good to run that good. You know what I mean? It's good to come to these races with a shot. It makes it fun.

Q. Juan, in the past, especially in IndyCar racing, except you, you only had another driver who tried here in IndyCar, this was in a different era, Roberto Guerrero. Are you helping upcoming young drivers from Colombia with talent and bringing them up there?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I'm busy enough with myself, to be honest. If they ask, I always offer advice. But that's all you can do.

I do help, like Gabby Chaves asked me a couple questions. I tried to help him. I said, "Look, it's what the car does and you got to figure out what you need." I think Chaves is pretty good. Munoz is really good. He's done really well here before. They didn't have such good cars this week.

The Hondas, they don't look that strong at the beginning of the race, but at the end they were right there again. They finished, what, fifth and sixth or something. They were right there.

Q. Juan, you've been around the last 15 years. Is there a way to compare this victory to the one 15 years ago?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I told people when I came 15 years ago, I didn't do the parade, I didn't do anything. I was racing CART. I never really even did the rookie thing, you know. I didn't even do that.

Q. You got a waiver?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I got a waiver because I was quick the first day. I'm like, OK, that works.

So, yeah, I mean, it's not that I didn't respect. Like, He doesn't respect the place. I mean, one thing is respect, and the other thing is fooling yourself thinking you got to do something different. If you doing something different here, it means you're not doing your job everywhere else. That's the way I look at it. You know what I mean?

It's what it is. What is it going to take to win Detroit? Same thing. You got to have a good car and you got to drive the hell out of it. If you drive better and do a better job than anybody else, you're going to freaking win it. If you don't, you don't. Simple, no?

Q. You say you respected the place in 2000. I know you weren't that big a fan of the car in that era. How much more competitive was it with this car?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: Well, you got to remember when I came here, we came from CART. CART at that time had a stupid amount of power. The cars were really easy to drive. I mean, you know what I mean? They were fun. They were good to drive because if you had a good car, you could drive away. They were well-balanced. But I could be so neutral in those cars, it was stupid how loose I could drive them. I remember I used to go into Turn One, as soon as I turned in I would turn right and hop it all the way to the wall every lap.

 

I noticed that. I was doing a test actually in Vegas, I remember. It was gusting 35-mile-an-hour winds. I came out of Turn Four, they could see the side of the car. Oh, this is good. They actually stopped me. I said, Why? You're sideways. It's OK.

I do remember that. These cars, I mean, I think the aero kits brought great racing. Man, it's fun. It's amazing how close and how competitive it is. I'll tell you the truth, that pass for Power for the lead was just as hard as when I tried to pass Servia for 28th. It's like they were not really easy passes.

It's actually easier when you're going for the lead because the guy in front of you doesn't have a draft. The other guys, you know, you got to be closer because the guy in front of you has got the momentum, as well. It's more about waiting for them to make mistakes than you passing them, you know?

 

Q. Given the early setbacks, dropping to 30th, lost some time in the pit stop, when did you begin to feel that you were back in the hunt and you convinced yourself you had a shot at winning?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: To be honest with you, you think about this. I overshoot the pits. I came in 20 something. I was running 20 something. After the pits, I came out 15. Through that run, I drove past I think nine cars in that run. The problem was I had like one car left to pass when the caution came out. But I couldn't see the front pack.

I said, I'm going to have to wait for a caution. That's all you can do. You know a caution is going to come out sooner or later. You just had to be patient and let it come to you.

I didn't feel the car was good enough to win at the beginning. We did a lot of work with it. I don't know if you noticed, but we changed the wing pretty much every stop, except the last one, where I actually felt we were good. I told the guys, Just leave it alone.

Q. After 2000, you already knew by then you were off to Formula 1. Did you ever imagine or think that you would be back at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in an IndyCar?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: No, to be honest with you I thought I'd retire about 35 at Formula 1. That's when people retire. That's what I thought. I'm 31 or whatever at that time. You think you're going to retire 35, you're probably going to do one of your last few deals in Formula 1. If there's not a good option, why be there? Just to run mid pack? Hell no. What's the point?

When I came to NASCAR, it was hard because, like Chip told me, We don't have the best cars, but I want to work on something, work on having winning cars.

We started good. We were going in the right direction. We made the Chase. We fought for the championship through the Chase. Until the last race, we were right there.

 

So when all that happens, you think you're pretty good. You go into the next year, and it kind of a plateau. It's like somebody pulled the parachute. It got to a point where you could qualify on pole. It's funny, because they hired new people. When we went to New Hampshire, Loudon was one of my better tracks, being on pole there. I qualified 35th. The guy tells me I have no idea how to drive the car around that place. Because they had the setup that won last year with a different car, different geometry, but same setup. It was really smart, so...

I don't know. I always say everything happens for a reason. I look back at it and I think I had a great experience in NASCAR. I learned a lot, won some races, fought a lot. I learned to race a lot smarter, to be honest. It did really help me with that. I was very impulsive. But you had to be impulsive back in the day. You didn't have "push to pass." You had one opportunity. They had to know that you were coming, when you were coming. If you got in the way, you were going to crash. Better give some room.


Formula 1 was the same way. You got to throw it in there. You got to throw it hard enough in there to make the corner and they can't. That was my mentality, and it always worked.
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Q. Most of your crewmen weren't here. They weren't working with Team Penske until recently, most of them. How much synergy is there in this result because of all that?

 

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: I don't know if you seen the video put yesterday on Instagram of our crew jumping. Did you see that? Oh, my God, that was priceless. The more I watched it, I laughed. It was pretty funny. We were going to meet in a bar, I don't know, Beaver something downtown. We parked the car. I don't know the name of the place. There were all the guys.

We were doing an event with [Tim] Cindric the other day. We saw one of those bicycles that are like bars. We said, If we win, we need to get one of those. We did. We were taking turns driving around town in one of those things last night.
It was very different.

Q. Helio made a strange comment saying that perhaps it got a little too dangerous back there, the race was too dangerous.

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: Where? When he went through the grass? You got to get out of the grass.

Q. Were you surprised perhaps by those comments?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: No. I mean, it got crazy because Pagenaud didn't have a front wing, so people were trying to go around him, and he bottled everything up. I mean, there's two ways of approaching it: be aggressive or be passive. There's room for X amount of cars. If you're the X plus-one, then you don't fit.

 

Q. Is it a different feeling this time around being able to share it with your loved ones?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: We all have loved ones. Yeah, but having the kids around, the wife around, it was pretty cool. My dad was here 15 years ago. To be here and share with me. A ton the friends. It was pretty cool.

It was funny because yesterday when we were watching it, with 10 to go, I'm telling my engineers, "At this point I thought we're not winning this. I mean, I'm third. Dixon just blew by us. We're screwed (laughter)."

 

But, what goes around comes around. You know what I mean?

 

Q. The next ovals are obviously different than Indianapolis. Nevertheless, do you have an idea to improve your qualifying, what to do with the aero trim?

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: The only place I qualify bad at an oval is here. Have to figure out what to do, you know. I qualified I think third in Texas last year. Pole in Pocono. Second in Fontana. And then 10th in Indy.

Hopefully make a couple more poles everywhere else. Getting into the Fast Nine is a big deal. Getting that pole is huge because you've really got to trim those cars out. They're a handful.

 

It's funny. When I come to the ovals and we start practice, I don't like the car. When I really don't like something, I don't even do a lap. If you look at the way I run practice sometimes, I get up to speed, don't even waste your time. I'm not going to race that. Don't even bother.

On Monday we tried six changes, and there were about three changes I didn't complete a timed lap. Went out, went through one and two, came back in. Nope.


I mean, I feel that if it's not give me what I'm looking for and the thing I need to win or be really good, then you shouldn't even bother wasting our time?

I think part of the oval success is believing in the car 100%. When you're driving it, when you're thinking the thing is not going to step out, or if it steps out I can catch it. You're thinking about positioning the car, do whatever I want with it.

 

Being preventive with what the car is going to do, you don't have a shot at it, to be honest. I don't think you can beat me if you're thinking about that, I'm just thinking to drive the wheels off of it with no concerns.

 

That's where we were yesterday at the end.



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Posted 26 May 2015 - 16:34

Indy 500: The best-three-way fight ever
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
By Robin Miller


It wasn't as close as Little Al and Goodyear in 1992 or as shocking Sam Hornish overtaking Marco Andretti on the last lap in 2006 and it wasn't quite as dramatic as Gordy holding off Rick Mears in 1982.

Yet the last 15 laps of Sunday's 99th Indianapolis 500 has to rank as the best battle between three drivers in IMS history. No doubt Ryan Hunter-Reay and Helio in 2014 was superb – ditto for Unser Jr. and Emmo in 1989 and Rathmann and Ward in 1960, etc.
But, in a race that had 37 passes for the lead (second most ever), those final 30 miles were as good as four-wheel, open-cockpit racing can get. It looked like Scott Dixon had the upper hand, then it switched to Will Power and suddenly Juan Montoya busted into the picture.

You had no idea who was going to hit the checkered flag first.

"It was fun, it was good, hard racing two with two damn good drivers that I respect but with 10 laps to go I was third and telling my engineers we weren't winning this one because Dixon just blew by me," recalled Montoya following his 0.1046 of a second triumph over teammate Power.

"I had a couple close calls, took a couple chances and it was fun. When we got to the bar last night they had the race on so we watched until it finished."

Sliding though a corner at 225mph, inches away from each other while making outside passes for the top spot made great theater and riveting television (although the overnight ABC rating was only a 4.2, up from a 4.1 year ago, you wonder how the last 10 laps couldn't have been a 10.1?

Any doubt the aero kits would ruin the racing were erased early and often as there was tremendous racing throughout the field all afternoon.

Charlie Kimball charged from 14th to edge Dixon for third, Graham Rahal continued to be Honda's hope by improving from 17th to fifth and Ryan Briscoe soldiered from 31st to 12th.

Of course the winner found himself 30th on lap 12 after Simona de Silvestro knocked off his right wheel pod under the caution. But the 39-year-old veteran used his aggression and a couple yellow lights to take the lead on lap 39.

"I didn't think the car was good enough to win at the beginning," admitted the 1999 CART champion. "We did a lot of work and changed the wing on almost every pit stop until the car felt right.

"You need to be patient and let things come to you. By the end I thought we could compete with Dixon, Will and Simon (Pagenaud) but I wasn't sure I had enough to win."

The 11th different driver to win for Roger Penske managed to get enough separation on the last two laps that Power never really made a run. Montoya said his car was pretty free but it looked like he was so much better in Turns 2 & 4 than his teammate.

And JPM became the first driver to win in different centuries.

"It sounds funny when you say 15 years – it sounds like a long time," he said. "To be honest, we have done so many things since, I've only done this race three times and I still feel like I've got a lot to learn.

"But we really worked hard in race trim to make sure I could run the car the way I wanted to, to be comfortable and aggressive. That's what we did and we were good."


INDY AFTERTHOUGHTS

Sebastian Saavedra suffered a dislocated right foot Sunday after his crash at Turn 4. He'd been nudged out of control by the spinning Jack Hawksworth, then was collected hard at the front of the car by Stefano Coletti and then struck the outside wall again, nose-first.

Gabby Chaves became the fourth Colombian driver to win rookie-of-the-year honors at Indianapolis, joining Roberto Guererro, Juan Montoya and Carlos Munoz. Driving for the one-car effort of Bryan Herta, the 2014 Indy Lights champion has run much better than his results have shown in the first six races.

Daniel Jang, the crewman who was struck in the Dale Coyne pit stop melee, underwent surgery on his right ankle and is expected to be released from Methodist Hospital on
Wednesday.

It was so cool to see Dan Gurney's four sons drive his Eagles around during the pre-race festivities (we'll have a video up later this week on RACER.com) – too bad nobody thought to include The Big Eagle in the parade of Indy winners circling IMS. He won as a car owner, finished second as a driver and is only one of the most influential racers in motorsports history. He also suffered a mild health scare Friday morning but the 84-year-old legend was at the track all weekend to preside over his exhibition in the IMS museum. He's DAN GURNEY for crissakes, show him some respect.

It's been a while but the Penske-Ganassi armada ran first through seventh, in various combinations, for much of the race.

Longtime chief mechanic Phil Casey was welcomed into the IMS Hall of Fame last week in one of the most popular inductions ever.

Scott Dixon, who led the most laps (84) in his Target Dallara-Chevrolet and looked like the class of the field, says he faded late due to engine overheating – sapping his power.

The attendance looked about the same as 2014, real thin at the north end, so maybe 210,000. You have to think the 100th Indy 500 is the last chance ever for a sellout.



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Posted 27 May 2015 - 00:49

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Posted 29 May 2015 - 14:18

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Posted 29 May 2015 - 14:28

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