A Bumpy Start: interview with Juan Pablo Montoya
One tennis injury, two missed Grands Prix, three race wins and plenty of ups and downs - Juan Pablo Montoya's first season at McLaren showed that it's never easy to step into a team alongside a driver like Kimi Raikkonen, with a boss like Ron Dennis...
Not surprisingly, this year all eyes were on the contest between Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, but one of the most fascinating aspects of 2005 was surely Juan Pablo Montoya's rollercoaster first season at McLaren.
We'll leave him to detail some of the ups and downs, suffice to say that in between the odd victory he had a more than a few bizarre incidents, including two tangles with backmarkers, a crash at the last corner of a qualifying lap while heading for pole, and even a collision with an errant drainage grid. Then there was the red mist that saw him jump the pitlane exit light in Canada, the road rage penalty in Monaco, and of course the strange story of the tennis accident that forced him out for two races.
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