Montoya finished the 1998 F3000 season with four wins, seven pole positions, and nine podium finishes in twelve races.

Montoya finished in second, and the result gave him more confidence than ever.

Montoya only finished six races, but he nevertheless won three pole positions and stood on the podium four times, including his maiden Formula One victory at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Montoya at the 2003 French Grand Prix, a race in which his WilliamsF1 | Williams team finished first and second.

In the last 7 grands prix Montoya finished, he scored 3 wins, 2 poles and 5 podiums, as well as setting a track record ( fastest lap ) of 1: 24. 770, which stands today still, at the 2005 Turkish Grand Prix.

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

Montoya ran in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona and finished second after a thrilling duel with David Donohue.

Montoya finished 14th in the Daytona 500 and finished 11th at Auto Club Speedway.

After going a lap down Montoya finished 8th at the Pocono 500 at Pocono Raceway.

Montoya began his NASCAR season with Daytona Speedweeks ; the first race was the Bud Shootout exhibition race in which he finished 10th.

Two weeks later in the Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Montoya, in a blue Clorox scheme led seven laps and finished 3rd.

Räikkönen later battled Montoya for the lead and finished 1 second behind him in 2nd.

Räikkönen eventually finished 5th, with team mate Montoya ahead in 3rd place.

Ralf Schumacher finished the 2001 Drivers Standing in 4th position ahead of team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya.

He finished the championship again in 4th, this time behind team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya.

Schumacher finished the season 5th and his contribution, alongside Juan Pablo Montoya did, however, help the Williams team to finish second in the Constructors Championship in 2002 and 2003, narrowly missing out on the title to Ferrari on the latter occasion.

Montoya, a rookie in the Sprint Cup series, finished second to Tony Stewart.

Jarno Trulli finished fourth for Renault, ahead of Nick Heidfeld, Montoya, Giancarlo Fisichella and Wilson.

Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya finished 18 seconds behind in second position while McLaren driver Kimi Räikkönen came home in third place and was the only other driver apart from Montoya, not to be lapped by Schumacher.

Barrichello finished second to Montoya as he was five seconds down on the Williams car.

His team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, finished in second place ahead of the polesitter and Williams driver, Juan Pablo Montoya.

David Coulthard took third for McLaren, just two seconds ahead of the Williams of Juan Pablo Montoya, while Jarno Trulli and Jacques Villeneuve battled throughout the race and finished fifth and sixth.

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.

The media activity around the event was intense, with Montoya and his CART teammate Jimmy Vasser being the first CART drivers to " cross-over " to drive in the Indy 500.

During the first half of his Formula One career, he consolidated his position as a fast driver and a race win challenger ; Montoya became a title contender during 2003 but the hopes of fighting for the title gradually faded as his cars lacked pace and stronger, more consistent, challengers arrived on the scene.

On the restart, which was on the third lap, Montoya shocked the F1 world by passing World Champion Michael Schumacher into the first corner.

After the first round of stops, the two leaders came ahead of the one-stopping David Coulthard but Montoya came behind.

At the Brazilian GP, Montoya led home McLaren's first 1-2 result in years, ahead of newly crowned world champion Fernando Alonso in third.

During the first three races, Montoya consistently underperformed on the track, not managing to improve his position from the start at the Bahrain and Malaysia Grands Prix.

Catalunya saw Montoya failing to qualify in the top 10 for the first time in the season.

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

Then, in just his seventh-career Nationwide Series race, Montoya took the checkered flag in Mexico City to earn his first win in a stock car.

In addition, Montoya became the first driver in history to win in his first two starts in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, which he won with teammates Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Dario Franchitti.

Gurney was the first driver to win races in Sports Cars ( 1958 ), Formula One ( 1962 ), NASCAR ( 1963 ), and Indy Car ( 1967 ) ( the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya ).

His daughter from his first marriage to Jules Klarecy ( née Hlavacek ), Romano Carmen ( later Montoya and Peers ), enjoyed a successful career as a dancer, taught ballet and flamenco in New York, and died on November 13, 1995, at age 73, in Athens, Greece.

At the end of the first lap, Button had built a good lead over Michael Schumacher, Montoya, Sato, Ralf Schumacher and Barrichello.

Lap 8 saw Montoya become the first front-runner to stop, followed into the pits by Mark Webber.

Born into a family of Gitano ( Romani ) cattle traders, Ramón Montoya used earnings from working in the trade to buy his first guitar.

Montoya was one of the first to challenge this role.

Montoya attempted to regain the place by going around the outside of the Spaniard into the first turn, but outbraked himself and ran wide.

When Williams seemed to have the first victory of the year in their pocket, Montoya spun after entering the first corner too fast, with eight laps from the end and without any pressure from his rivals.