Juan Pablo Montoya, bluntly, confesses why he did not sign for Ferrari in F1: ‘I did not want to be Schumacher’s second man’

This Thursday, Juan Pablo Montoya participated in a podcast with daily Ace and he remembered those years in which he was considered one of the most outstanding pilots in the world and revealed details that very few people knew about his life in the F1.

Montoya sat in the team seat BMW-Williams in 2001 and wowed with his fearless driving on the world’s best and most challenging tracks. In 2003 he placed third in the World Championships of a Formula 1but he remembered that during those years he was a scorer for Ferraribut his response was ‘no, thank you’.

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“In my time it was not attractive. Ross Brownafter the podium of monza, in one of the years, he approached me and said: We would love for you to be in red with us one day. I turned around and said no, thank you. Because Schumacher was there, and being second to SchumacherNo,” the Colombian pilot said at the outset.

It is not the first time that Juan Pablo Montoya This is how he refers to his time in Formula 1a few weeks ago he commented that he was in the motor world to compete and not to make friends.

“I closed that door because at that moment I was in Williams and the only thing he wanted to do was beat Ferrari. I felt like I was a Williams driver and I never imagined that he was going to leave the team, I thought that he was going to race there all his life,” added the driver.

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In addition, he commented on various anecdotes that he experienced in his sporting career when he was in the ‘Great Circus’: ​“The English press criticized me because they dismissed Button (Jenson) and then Coulthard (David) for riding me, and there was a He loved me a little, but not much. And the German press was super divided because his hero, the one who dragged him along and made his time miserable, was me, and his spoiled little brother was my partner and I beat him, so it was super complicated.”

About the bad reputation it has in Colombia about being an overly conceited person, he stated: “It’s better to have something good or bad talked about you, rather than for no one to talk about you. It’s very complicated, I raced a car because I liked cars, not to be famous. I like it. “My privacy mattered, I loved enjoying my private life and in Colombia I couldn’t enjoy vacations.”

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