Montoya is one of two drivers to have won the CART title in his rookie year, the first being Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell in 1993.

Montoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races ( starting in each case in his rookie year ) in Formula One, CART, IndyCar, Grand-AM and NASCAR equalling in that respect Mario Andretti's caliber of success ( except for the F1 World Championship ); And shares honors as well with Dan Gurney in being IndyCar / F1 / NASCAR race winner.

Montoya still had a contractual relationship with Williams and after his impressive rookie season the Grove-based team were keen for him to drive for them in Formula One.

Montoya qualified 2nd, led 167 laps and won the race going away, becoming the seventh Indy 500 rookie to win the race.

When the safety car came in, F1 rookie Juan Pablo Montoya overtook defending champion Michael Schumacher.

Franchitti finished runner-up in the 1999 CART season behind rookie Juan Pablo Montoya.

Montoya went onto the grass briefly at Turn Eight as he prepared to make his second call to pitlane ; this, plus another off-track excursion while tangling with a backmarking rookie, cost him valuable time.

On June 22, 2007, he won his third career Cup pole, for the Toyota Save / Mart 350 and lead the most laps, but with 7 to go Cup rookie and McMurray's future teammate Juan Pablo Montoya passed him and held off McMurray until McMurray eventually ran out of gas with two to go and resulted 37th.

Perhaps the most impressive was Juan Pablo Montoya winning the championship in his rookie season in 1999.

Chip Ganassi Racing initially raced in the IRL with Juan Pablo Montoya and Jimmy Vasser in the 2000 Indy 500 won by rookie Montoya.

Juan Pablo Montoya is the only other driver with wins in all 3 series, with an Indy 500 win ( 2000 ), 7 Formula One wins and 2 Sprint Cup wins ( 2007 and 2010 ).

Montoya and his No. 42 crew went on to amass one win, three top-five and six top-10 finishes during the 2007 Sprint Cup season.

Montoya also earned the honor of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2007 Rookie of the Year and finished 20th in series points.

Montoya finished the first 26 races in eighth place in the standings, which made him the first foreign born driver to qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Juan Pablo Montoya started the 2010 edition of the Watkins Glen race in 3rd place and led 74 of the 90 laps to win his 2nd career Sprint Cup Series race.

Montoya did not make the Chase for the Sprint Cup and ended up 17th in points with six top-fives and fourteen top-tens.

Montoya has re-signed with Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing to remain in the # 42 car in the Sprint Cup Series in 2012.

To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 ( 1969 ), Daytona 500 ( 1967 ) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500.

* The # 1 and # 42 cars continue to run a full NASCAR Sprint Cup Schedule in 2010 with Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya respectively.

* Juan Pablo Montoya ( who qualified for the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup )

On July 9, 2006, Montoya announced his plans to compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series beginning with the 2007 season, racing for Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates ' NASCAR operation, Chip Ganassi Racing, in the No. 42 Texaco / Havoline Car.

On November 19, 2006, Montoya competed for the first time in NASCAR's premier division, the NEXTEL Cup Series.

In late 2006, Juan Pablo Montoya made his Cup debut at the Ford 400 in the # 30, but failing to finish after being wrecked late in the race.

1993 saw Montoya switch to the Swift GTI Championship, a series he dominated by winning seven of eight races and earning eight poles.

For the 1999 season, in the hope of attracting more investors to the underperforming team, Frank Williams agreed to a driver swap with CART team owner Chip Ganassi, in which Ganassi's 1997 and 1998 CART champion driver, Alessandro Zanardi, would return to Formula One and Montoya would take his place in the competitive American series.

Despite this, Montoya led more laps than anyone else and took the maiden victory for a Toyota engine in the series.

Despite public warnings from two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. claiming that if a driver does not respect the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the place " will bite you-hard " Montoya shrugged off the advice claiming that all four corners were exactly the same and that the track required less attention than the road courses in the CART series and in European racing.

Following further speculation that he could start racing in the NASCAR series as early as 2006, Dennis publicly offered Montoya an early exit from his contract with McLaren-Mercedes, provided that he resigned from receiving any payout to terminate his contract.

Montoya visited victory lane three times across three different racing series in 2007.

Darrow is probably best remembered for his role as Manolito Montoya on the 1960s television series The High Chaparral.

This brought him to the attention of television producer David Dortort, who immediately recruited him for his TV western series The High Chaparral, casting him as Manolito Montoya.

In week 9 of the ongoing 2006 weekly series, 52, the Question tells Renee Montoya that Intergang is preparing for an invasion of Gotham City.

Nunn would later go on to be a prominent chief engineer in the American-based Champ Car series, winning championships with drivers Alex Zanardi and Juan Pablo Montoya in the late 1990s.

Juan Pablo Montoya drove the last four races of the year, posting an eleventh place finish in his series debut at Memphis.

The team fielded Chevrolets in all series for three drivers – the # 1 Bass Pro Shops car driven by Jamie McMurray and the # 8 car of Aric Almirola from the DEI stable and the # 42 car Juan Pablo Montoya from Target Ganassi's stable.

They won four consecutive series championships, with Jimmy Vasser ( 1996 ), Alex Zanardi ( 1997 – 1998 ), and Montoya in 1999, becoming the first car owner to win four consecutive CART championships.

The show's official " bible " described Montoya as the widow of a fellow police officer who was killed in the line of duty, as well as an active volunteer at her Roman Catholic Church, but this information was never mentioned on the series itself.

The comic series Gotham Central describes Montoya as the daughter of immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

Montoya is one of the main characters of Gotham Central, a comic book series about the Gotham City police department.

In the first issue of Batman's debut in Smallville Season 11's comic series, Barbara Gordon / Nightwing mentions elluding cops named " Allen and Montoya ".

One of the most important contributions from the animated series to the Batman universe is the introduction of Renee Montoya ( first as a uniformed officer, then a detective ), which would later become a first-grade character in the GCPD comic books.

On the other hand, 2007 Rookie of the Year winner Juan Pablo Montoya was eligible even though he had previously been the 1999 Rookie of the Year in the CART series ( which at the time was the top level of open wheel racing.

Other notable drivers who have raced in the series include Juan Pablo Montoya, Alex Gurney, Jon Fogarty, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Danica Patrick, Jeremy Dale, Townsend Bell, Michael Valiante, David Martínez, Memo Rojas, Rocky Moran, Jr., Al Unser III, Andy Swett, Jerry Nadeau, Ernesto Viso, Sergio Pérez.

Dropping the magician Zatanna from its lineup and adding a host of new characters to the cast, including Detective Renee Montoya, each episode from this series tied into the next, forming a collective thirty-minute whodunit.