Juan Pablo Montoya

  1. Daytona 500: Could Juan Pablo Montoya Have Averted a Near Tragedy?

    Juan Pablo Montoya is coming off a year he would like to forget, but his fiery crash at Daytona, with of all things a safety truck and jet dryer, could have easily been tragic and perhaps averted...

    Sandra MacWatters Written by Sandra MacWatters about 3 months ago 1,659 reads 5 comments

  2. Daytona 500 Highlights: Ranking the Craziest Occurrences in Great American Race

    The Daytona 500 has been in existence since 1959, but 2012's edition was certainly the wildest and most unpredictable of all time...

    Mike Chiari Written by Mike Chiari about 3 months ago 912 reads 0 comments

  3. Daytona 500: Winners and Losers from Daytona Weekend

    The 54th Daytona 500 is finally over. After two weeks of work, wrecks, weather, and wild racing, Matt Kenseth won the 500 in the Cup Series, while James Buescher and John King won in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series respectively...

    Michael Desjardins Written by Michael Desjardins about 3 months ago 872 reads 0 comments

  4. Juan Pablo Montoya Crash: Scary Incident Must Force NASCAR to Change Policies

    In one of the wildest wrecks in recent NASCAR history, veteran road racer Juan Pablo Montoya caused a fireball that had the already delayed race on hold for even longer...

    Donald Wood Written by Donald Wood about 3 months ago 3,553 reads 8 comments

  5. Daytona 500 Starting Lineup: Kurt Busch and More Threats to Win from the Back

    A poor qualifying session does not mean doom for these drivers. Sure, they may be starting from the bottom half of the 43-man Daytona 500 but when it's over, don't allow yourself to be surprised if any of these men is the last man standing...

    Michael Dixon Written by Michael Dixon about 3 months ago 5,817 reads 0 comments

  6. FYI WIRZ: Grand-Am Rolex Brings Big 50th Story as Stars Race Around the Clock

    The Grand-Am Rolex 24 at Daytona got underway in gorgeous January weather—even for Florida. The biggest news planned might have been that it was the 50th anniversary of grueling ...

    Dwight Drum Written by Dwight Drum about 4 months ago 291 reads 2 comments

  7. NASCAR Sprint Cup: Daytona's "Dark Horses" Getting Ready to Saddle Up

    The commencement of the NASCAR season begins with one of the most unpredictable races of the year. The Daytona 500 has a way of lifting rather unknown drivers up onto the pedestal of stock car racing in the course of a single afternoon...

    David DeNenno Written by David DeNenno about 4 months ago 429 reads 5 comments

  8. The Most Wreck-Prone Drivers in NASCAR

    NASCAR and wrecked cars go together like peanut butter and jelly. Any driver, on any given day, can have their car battered, mutilated or even flipped...

    David DeNenno Written by David DeNenno about 5 months ago 8,313 reads 17 comments

  9. NASCAR's Juan Pablo Montoya Gets a Lifeline, but Will It Save Him in 2012?

    Juan Pablo Montoya is a fiery Colombian who has failed to ignite his NASCAR career in five full seasons after finding success as a driver in Formula One. Now he gets a lifeline that may turn his career around as a driver for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing...

    Sandra MacWatters Written by Sandra MacWatters about 5 months ago 3,201 reads 22 comments

  10. Earnhardt-Ganassi Shakes Up Competition Department, Hmiel out

    Earnhardt Ganassi Racing announced Tuesday that long-time members of its competition department, Steve Hmiel and Tony Glover, have been fired...

    Connor Kish Written by Connor Kish about 6 months ago 568 reads 0 comments

  11. NASCAR Sprint Cup: Ranking the Top 7 Current Rivalries on and off the Track

    Rivalries, they are sewn into the very fiber of NASCAR. While we don't have rivalries today like we did in the past (Waltrip-Earnhardt, anyone?), there are still some fun and interesting ones to watch as the season progresses...

    Melissa Bauer-Herzog Written by Melissa Bauer-Herzog about 10 months ago 930 reads 3 comments

  12. Flashback: 5 Reasons the CART Fed-Ex Series Lost out to the Indy Racing League

    Heading into 1999, the CART Fed-Ex Series was riding high. CART seemed to have gotten the best of the open-wheel split three years earlier...

    Austin Schoen Written by Austin Schoen about 11 months ago 759 reads 3 comments

  13. NASCAR at Infineon: Meet Your Road Course Ringers

    Right turns are only relevant in NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup Series six days a year—two sets of race weekends in the summer months that take place at California's Infineon Raceway and New York's Watkins Glen International...

    Christopher Leone Written by Christopher Leone about 11 months ago 354 reads 0 comments