Culture crash? How about Ganassi Team? Let me sum up what I wrote at another forum, where Montoya was attacked less than fairly. Please, mates, take this with a grain of salt. There Montoya was called "a guy with a history of being dangerous in F1", "he moved prematurely" and "he was regular in F3" or something like that, so I felt I had to answer somehow.
I know here things are different, I hope you find it funny, if longer than "War and Peace" (sorry, Tif, for the repetition). I know this is a rant if ever one existed. You can check the video of the crash and Ganassi team refilling abilities here and judge Pruett move. Please check what he did on Alex García on the same corner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_if1mD1_mfc
"If Ganassi has the slightest idea on how to drive, he should put Pruett on probation to teach him what a partner should do when his teammate is like 100 mph faster than him:
don't block him, stupid! If you see a lighting with a 42 on the door, move away, you, master of the “teammate’s behavior etiquette ”!
Would you allow Massa to block Kimi when Felipinho is slower? What kind of team manager manages his team that way, Mr. Ganassi? Were you really talking to Nascar.com or some newspaper, while your driver was overtaking everybody and his dog?
That’s what I call strategy: move everybody away from your driver, EXCEPT your other driver.
Oh, and don’t forget
to fail to fill his tank and spill gas on his rear window as a departing gift, please, Chip! Show us how a pit stop is done, pleeeze. No wonder that team was a catastrophe last year. Imagine if they were forced to use gas pumps, like in F1, instead of buckets! Their collective brain would blow an aneurysm, oh, giants of the pit stop…. They didn’t blow it because they lack brains, I bet.
A blocked gas pipe? What did they put on the pipe, a corncob? These guys must have organized last elections in Florida. Only thing they didn’t do was throwing a match at the car while departing the pit. We could baptize it the “Moe, Larry and Curly” Ganassi team.
Thanks for the lesson: Brawn must be wondering how you do it! I bet that if the pace car moved into the track Juan would have overtaken it: JPM was on fire and Pruett needed to lift the anchor of his car.
Now, the move by Pruett: that block could give anyone an honorary MBA on "moronity", with honors, cum laude.
I thank you all for showing me what a partner is: is a guy that blocks his teammate when “he only had to wait a couple of laps more”. Yeah, sure… Why don’t you call him on the radio and talk to him about it? “Well, I’ll let you pass after my mom, who is in the grandstands, wave at me! You know, I need her to be happy with his kid leading the race.”
After all that comedy, I can say I've never ever seen a driver so superior to the rest of the field. And in Mexico! Have you heard the phrase "andale, andale, arriba, arriba!”?
Pruett and Montoya at turn 1. Notice Pruett face. He declared through one of his spokemen: "I'm still thinking the move was premature".
Now, I thought differently until today, but now, I think these Americans, so called “pilots”, don't have the slightest idea about driving on a street course, let me tell you. The word “bollocks” was invented specially for some of them.
Now, I might be overstepping a “little” there: I am as proud as you of the many "risks" taken by the daring Brussels Bureaucracy!
However, for some self criticism, some European F1 drivers don't know what competition is: many of them need a resolution of the European High Court to try to pass. If you rub them a little, they complain about you being too rude. If you overtake them, they complain: "Hey, that was illegal! Article 10.1.1.1.3 says that you have to have a contract signed in Maranello to do that! Gotcha! Moooooooommy!!!!! Juan tried to overtake me while we were playing in the track! He's mean to me!"
On the other hand, it seems NASCAR drivers can hunt you "wolf-pack" style in an oval, I concede. I would think they train in Afghanistan, in Abrams M-1, if I haven’t seen them last year racing at NASCAR. They are pretty cool about hard crashes, but a soft spin (hey, Mr. Scotty finished sixth, you sensitive fans of Mr. Pruett) takes them out of their clothes: I did not hear anybody here complaining when some guy put Monty into the wall a few races ago! "That was a honest mistake".
Yeah, sure. Nor did Montoya complain. He knows what he has to endure: "let's put the ‘bolivian’ to escape from a car on fire... that'll teach him, bwahahahahaha!" Then, “we whistle and look the other way. Who is going to complain? After all, the stewards are unable to take another penalty form: they’re too busy expelling half of the team managers as the cheaters they are!”
Scott probably doesn’t know that if you put your right rear corner on the path of a car that is 50 kph faster than you, you “might” spin. Rearview mirror has not been invented in NASCAR. They are waiting for Sato to arrive, I guess.
Well, let's put that in the past: anyway, any race on a "normal course", mano-a-mano, is going to be a probable win for Monty and they know it now. It seems that the little training Monty got on F3 paid off... The guy even apologized (c'mon, Juan, shame on them!)."
