Michelin must raise its game, says JPM

Montoya finished second to world champion Michael Schumacher in Japan and blamed his defeat on the amount of time spent scrubbing in tyres during practice, which left less development time before the race. The Colombian claimed that Bridgestone runners had an advantage during the first few laps of Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.

"We are going to have to work really hard on the tyres during the winter to make sure we will be able to run new tyres [straightaway], because it seems that if we don't really scrub them we are not competitive," he said.

"Michael was way too quick on new tyres, that's where he won the race. When his tyres were old we were the same or quicker than him. As you could see Rubens was on new tyres [when he overtook me], I was on old tyres and, for the first few laps, as Michael says, there is a huge difference."

Montoya finished sixth overall in the drivers' championship with 31 points to team mate Ralf Schumacher's 49, but took the initiative from the German during the last six races, scoring his first GP win at Monza.

Overall the 26-year-old declared himself happy with his debut season in Formula 1. He said: "I've been unlucky on a number of occasions when I could have had a good result and the car broke down or something happened and I missed a lot of points. Considering this is my first season I think things have gone pretty well."

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