Dan Wetzel of Yahoo!Sports has a cool column up resurrecting Juan Pablo Montoya's ((pictured, thanks NASCAR Images)) implosion at the stock car racing event in Indianapolis over the weekend...
The key points...
Speeding on the pit road by both .06 and .11-miles-per-hour cost him close to a quarter of a million bucks. He was leading the race and was about to turn it in to a horizon job, until he need to pit...
Wetzel continues...
The stock car circuit shrugged off the criticism, saying the sensors don’t lie. Helton declined comment.
“I would’ve been pissed too,” NASCAR competition director John Darby said.
Meanwhile, on Twitter, Montoya’s wife, Connie, was blasting NASCAR for a “bs call” and compared it to Juan Pablo’s days in Formula 1, which is famous for questionable decisions and penalties.
Montoya eventually cooled off, a little, after the race. He expressed a mood of resignation.
“I was cruise[ing],” he said. “I was super fast.”
He later tweeted that he “had a rough day to say the least” and “[I] don’t wanna say much of what happened, we just have to move on.”
Pattie said there would be no appeal, even though NASCAR had made a mistaken speeding call on Montoya at a race earlier this year.
“It’s electronic; they did their job,” Pattie said. “It’s not the days of the old handheld, so we’re fine.”
Here's the first part of the exchange with his pit...
((HT: ESPN/NASCAR))
Those of us at OSG HQ wonder, like Wetzel, if he talked to his wife and kids about part of that conversation...
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