Монтойя в NASCAR

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"It's boring. It's a shame, because the technology these cars have and the amount of companies that are involved is unreal. I don't know how big companies do it for such a long time without results."

"It's harder here," argued the Bogota native, currently sitting 19th in the championship chase out of some 67 fierce competitors. "When you run 15th, sometimes you think it sucks, but look at the big picture - 15th here is like sixth or seventh in F1, because there are twice as many cars.

"The incredible thing is here I run 15th or 20th on average, and there are four or five weeks in the year where I have a chance of winning. In F1 if you run sixth or seventh, you run sixth or seventh the whole year.

"It doesn't matter if you're running for the lead, or for 30th, you're always racing somebody [in NASCAR]. That's much better."

Montoya also pointed out that such is NASCAR's incredible popularity in the States, F1 barely raises a flicker on the interest scale, and whilst he rates his McLaren successor Lewis Hamilton as a 'good kid' and a 'nice guy', he is blunt in pointing out that: "Go ask anybody here who is Lewis Hamilton. Lewis who?"