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a Colombian race car driver known internationally for participating in and winning Formula One and CART race competitions. Currently, he competes in NASCAR, driving the #42 Target Chevrolet Impala for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. The highlights of his career include winning the International F3000 championship in 1998, and the CART Championship Series in 1999, as well as victories in some of the most prestigious races in the world. He is the only driver to have won the premier North American open-wheel CART title, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Daytona, all at the first attempt. Montoya is one of two drivers to have won the CART title in his rookie year, the first being Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell in 1993. He has also equaled Graham Hill's feat of being a Monaco Grand Prix

and Indianapolis 500 race winner; Montoya is currently one of only two active drivers (along with Jacques Villeneuve) who has won two legs of the Triple Crown of Motorsport. 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 equaling 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, and NASCAR race winner. Montoya is also the only driver to have competed in all three major events at Indianapolis, finishing fourth or better in each event. He finished 1st in the Indianapolis 500, 2nd in the Brickyard 400, and 4th in the US Grand Prix. 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 #42 Texaco/Havoline Car. "I'm looking forward to racing in the Cup Series for Chip Ganassi in the Big Red Car. I think I will learn a lot from my teammates and other drivers around me. It will be tough though to get used to the difference in the cars." Montoya made his stock car debut in an Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) event at the Talladega Superspeedway on October 6, 2006. He qualified second, led the first nine laps, and finished third when the race was called after 79 of 92 laps. Montoya visited victory lane three times across three

different racing series in 2007. He kicked off 2007 with a win in his first Rolex 24 at Daytona race in the Grand American Road Racing Association. Then, in just his seventh-career Xfinity Series race, Montoya took the checkered flag in Mexico City to earn his first win in a stock car. His abilities on the road course were evident to his competitors when he captured his first Cup victory after qualifying 32nd at Infineon Raceway. Montoya and his #42 crew went on to amass one win, three top-five and six top-10 finishes during the 2007 Cup season. Montoya also earned the honor of NASCAR Cup Series 2007 Rookie of the Year and finished 20th in series points. 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

Cup Series race. This made him the first foreign-born driver to have multiple wins in NASCAR Cup history. Montoya did not make the Chase for the Cup and ended up 17th in points with six top-fives and fourteen top-tens. Montoya also won the pole for the Lenox Industrial Tools 301, the Brickyard 400, and the AMP Energy Juice 500. During the 2012 Daytona 500, during a caution on lap 160, Montoya's car spun out and collided with a track support vehicle with a jet dryer in tow; due to a rear suspension mechanical malfunction on his race car, causing leaking vapors from the dryer to catch fire, leading to a lengthy red

flag. The driver of the support vehicle and Montoya were both cleared medically after the accident. To this point in his career, Montoya has competed in 94 Formula 1 races, winning 7 times. As noted he also won the first two Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona he entered (2007 & 2008) and finished second in two other starts. He has ran in the Indy 500 five time, and claimed the win his first try in 2000; he went back to Indy car racing in 2014 and won the Indy 500 for a second time in 2015. He drove for Roger Penske 2014-2016 and was dropped from the Penske lineup in 2017. He did run two races in 2017; both for Penske. He finished 10th in the Indianapolis Grand Prix and sixth in the Indy 500. He also ran 40 CART races in his career, and won 10 times. He has one Xfinity win in 23 starts. and has two Cup wins. Currently he has over 47 million dollars in NASCAR earnings. During the 2016 season, it was reported

that Team Penske was looking at returning to top-level North American sports car racing in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) WeatherTech Series and Montoya would be the teams lead driver. Montoya would partner with former Prototype champion Dane Cameron in a Team Penske-run Acura ARX-05 Daytona Prototype international starting with the 2018 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Montoya teamed with Helio Castroneves and Simon Pagenaud at the 2017 Petit Le Mans in a stock Oreca 07-Gibson, scoring a podium in what was described as a "dress rehearsal" for the team prior to the 2018 season. He finished fifth in the first full Weather Tech Championship season with Acura Team Penske racing in the DPi class. 2019 saw Montoya again race with co-driver Dane Cameron

and post a Championship season. Heading into the Petit LeMans held at Road Atlanta they only needed to finish eighth to clinch the Championship. They drove a conservative race and finished fourth to get the title by five points. They had claimed a podium finish at Long Beach before winning at Mid-Ohio and claimed another win the next race at Detroit. They got their third win of the season at Laguna Seca the week before Petit LeMans. For 2022, Montoya announced he would be racing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for DragonSpeed in the LMP2 class. His first race of the season was at Sebring, where he raced alongside his son. The car retired after Juan Pablo was involved in a multi car collision shortly after taking the

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JUAN PABLO MONTOYA - 09/20/1975