Juan Pablo Montoya Found Himself Behind The Wheel Of An F1 Car Again

Midway through the 2006 season, one of F1’s brightest stars departed when Juan Pablo Montoya spoken he would be moving to NASCAR. However, without an sparsity of over 15 years, Montoya is when in F1… sort of.

When Montoya spoken he’d be leaving to compete in NASCAR, McLaren superabound Ron Dennis wasn’t weightier pleased. The seven-time race winner ended up out of his seat a little sooner than anticipated, bringing an unreticent end to an impressive but short career in F1 where the feisty Colombian was increasingly than a match for the unconfined Michael Schumacher on increasingly than one occasion.

Ahead of this weekend’s Finali Mondiali event at Mugello, where all of Ferrari’s in-house racing and track day programmes yank to a tropical for the year, Montoya got overdue the wheel of a Ferrari F2008 for a few laps!

Can we moreover have a turn, please ?

The F2008 was a solid weapon in its day, winning eight races and the Constructors’ Championship in the hands of Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa – although it’s probably weightier remembered for missing out on the Drivers’ Championship with Massa thanks to a unrepealable Mr Glock.

A few years surpassing that, during his career, Montoya reportedly turned lanugo a endangerment to race for Ferrari considering of the presence of Schumacher in the team, fearing he’d have to play second-fiddle to the seven-time champion.

Instead, Montoya was a championship challenger at Williams surpassing moving on to McLaren, where he’d partner Kimi Raikkonen, who would replace Schumacher at Ferrari himself in 2007, and momentum the very car Montoya’s been having a go in a year later.

Montoya is at Mugello with his son Sebastián, a German and Italian Formula 4 racer who was formerly a part of the Ferrari suburbanite seminar slantingly Mick Schumacher.