Montoya confirms Toro Rosso offer

The Colombian, who has switched to NASCAR, claims that he has no interest in making a Grand Prix comeback after the sport turned its back on him last season.

"I received a message on my mobile from somebody in Europe; I'm not going to say from whom," Montoya was quoted as saying by this week's Autosport magazine.

"The message said that if I found NASCAR boring, they had the doors open for me to return to F1. I laughed so much at it."

Toro Rosso approached Montoya as they considered their driver line-up for 2007, but decided against pursuing the matter when it became clear the Colombian was fully committed to NASCAR.

Montoya has interestingly also said that he would even have turned down an approach from Renault.

"Let me ask you something," he said. "What's going to happen this season? Everybody is on Bridgestones and which team is going to win? Ferrari will. They'll probably dominate.

"Honestly, I was going to be in F1 for three or four years more. Here in NASCAR I can race until I'm 45 and I'm still young."

Montoya made headlines in the United States earlier this week when he responded to comments Michael Schumacher made with the New York Times claiming he did not understand what was exciting about NASCAR.

Montoya was quoted as saying by the Associated Press agency: "Schumacher is a nobody in America. If you took him to Homestead in Florida and told him to stay half a second off the pace he'd have a heart attack."