Juan-Pablo Montoya has delivered a stinging rebuke to the sport that delivered him seven grand prix victories, 13 pole positions, twelve fastest laps and no fewer than 30 podium finishes, blasting
Formula 1 as ‘boring' and claiming that as far as the Americans are concerned,
Lewis Hamilton is ‘Lewis Who?'
The famously outspoken Colombian competed in 94 starts in the top flight for BMW-
Williams and McLaren-Mercedes from 2001 to 2006, before dramatically walking away mid-season just under two years ago to return to his roots across the Pond, where in 1999 he had sensationally clinched the Champ Car (then CART) laurels for Chip Ganassi Racing in his maiden campaign in the open-wheel series.
Montoya now races in the NASCAR Nextel Cup, and as such has become the only driver in history aside from the legendary
Mario Andretti to have won races in
F1, CART, the IndyCar Series, Grand-Am and NASCAR, with his sole triumph to-date in the latter coming in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California last year.
Indeed, the 32-year-old's 2007 performances were impressive enough to earn him the coveted ‘Rookie of the Year' accolade, and – reunited with Ganassi since his return Stateside – he clearly does not regret making the move.
“Formula 1 drivers are convinced that they're so much better than anyone else,” Montoya told
The Times. “When I was in F1, every week I was on the podium. It was cool, but is it satisfying? It wasn't, because it was the most boring races.
“The guy who started in front of you would drive away from you, and the guy who was behind you would drop away from you, unless you [had] f***ed up in qualifying – and then you needed to have a different pit-stop strategy to beat them.
“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.”
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