Juan Pablo Montoya was testing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this week. Here the Colombian talks about that test, how he is finding his #42 Texaco/Havoline Dodge Charger, his Rolex 24 win on Sunday and lots, lots more...
Q:
Juan, what are your thoughts on LVMS?
Juan Pablo Montoya:
My first time here was in my IRL car before going to Indy. We did a day here, and it was really windy. This is a different horse with these cars to be honest.
Q:
Toyota is going to compete in NASCAR in 2007. What do you think about this? Can Toyota succeed and get the job done?
JPM:
It's hard to know what they're going to do, but I think a manufacturer that size or any manufacturer that commits to come in to NASCAR they need to come in and be prepared to pull out all the stops. You cannot say there's got to be this here and this there. If they want to do well they've got to come in 100 percent. When we were in CART they were there for a few years and they were really never that committed to it. When they came with Chip they were right behind it and the program really worked. We had a lot of failures and stuff but they were 100 per cent to it.
Q:
Do you want to see them do well?
JPM:
Yeah, I think it's good for the sport, another manufacturer doing well, but I'd rather see Dodge win.
Q:
How does NASCAR rank in difficulty with other forms of racing for you?
JPM:
For me it's harder in a stock car than open wheel, but for a stock car guy, probably an open wheel car is harder because everything happens faster. It's completely different. This is a hard race car. It's all about comfort. I think the oval is all about the feedback you get out of the car. For me, being so new to this, probably the mile and a half tracks are the hardest ones there are. You go in, you get out of the gas, you get back on it. The car twitches, I'm not taking any risks. At the same time you want to run fast, so it's like as soon as you get a little bit comfortable you start attacking and attacking and attacking and going a little faster.
Q:
What do you think of the new banking at LVMS?
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