Trade Monaco for Darlington? Some people assumed Juan Pablo Montoya had a few screws loose — and not in his race car.Â
There were puzzled expressions all around — except, notably, on the faces of Montoya and car owner Chip Ganassi — when Ganassi announced in the middle of the 2006 season that Montoya would drive for his NASCAR team beginning with the 2007 Sprint Cup schedule.
Yes, Ganassi assured everyone, this was the same Juan Pablo Montoya who had blitzed the racing capitals of Europe and other continents as one of Formula One’s lightning rods. He won races on some of world’s most famous F1 courses and in front of kings and queens and sheiks, and now he was going to race “taxicabs” at such exotic locales as Talladega and Martinsville? … Details
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