Juan Pablo Montoya News

The stately cavalcade of veteran car racing can belie a competitive ardour that even Michael Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya would have to respect.

OK folks, this is totally a mid-week piece of fun. Juan Pablo Montoya a few minutes ago Tweeted a photo of his new golf bag.

Juan Pablo Montoya is already talking when he walks through the door of Alsace 1, AKA the teleprompter room, at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning of Champion's Week.

After Juan Pablo Montoya's BMW Williams just beat the two Ferraris of Rubens Barrichello and Michael Schumacher to the fastest qualifying lap at Monza, the teams' technical directors went head-to-head off the track as well.

Today's Rowdy podcast can be found at: http://www.rowdy.com/system/audio/file_name/523/podcast120409.mp3 In today's podcast: Jimmie Johnson gets ready for his big speech Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart make up TRG gets a champ but loses a Slugger Plus highlights from the Jimmie Johnson roast

Fans hungering for a rivalry brewing between Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya will be sadly disappointed to learn that the two have already brushed off their incident at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Tuesday: With the season over and the series' top drivers hitting up Las Vegas for the banquet, it's time to take a look back at how they fared in the playoffs.

Ferrari famously stick to team orders, but elsewhere drivers refuse to take a back seat.

It was inevitable that the saccharine friendship between world champion Fernando Alonso and upstart rookie teammate Lewis Hamilton would go the way of all such relationships when the ante was upped by the pressures of intense sporting rivalry.

Sure, there have been a few notable exceptions especially among the Finns but these days, it seems as if the exceptions are gaining on the norm.

Lap 161: David Ragan's car is smoking - tire rub. GREEN FLAG - Lap 161: Denny Hamlin leads field to the green.

Juan Pablo Montoya, who qualified for the 2009 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup in his third full year in the series, sees the addition of Jamie McMurray as a positive move for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.

At the time of writing this, it was about 15 minutes ago [as it notes]: jpmontoya Had a shitty qualifying.

JENSON BUTTON'S rise from Somerset karter to Formula One world champion. 1980: Born January 19 in Frome, Somerset.

As usual, Juan Pablo Montoya was in a hurry. Seated in the drivers' interview room after a third-place finish at Auto Club Speedway, Montoya made no attempt to hide his desire to leave.

AS A RACER with IndyCar and Formula One experience, Juan Pablo Montoya is qualified to compare NASCAR racing with other series.

A little while back Bob Griese got in trouble for saying Juan Pablo Montoya wasn't on the leader board because he stopped for tacos .

For the first time in quite a few years I actually sat down, put my feet up, grabbed a cup of coffee and watched a Formula One race, the Abu Dhabi GP, without having to worry about commentary or anything else.

By ANTHONY ANDRO Sylvania 300 Sept. 20, New Hampshire Motor SpeedwaySentimental favorite Mark Martin, who began the Chase as the point leader, struck a blow for the 50-year-old set by winning his first race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

CAUTION 6 189 - Another big crash -- Jamie McMurray will win! GREEN FLAG - Lap 188: Jamie McMurray leads.