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There is no doubt in my mind that Montoya was going to win this race...he was holding his line, and it looked like Pruett lost the handle on his...but the fact remains that Montoya should have shown more patience. He had a good run, but did not have the entire spot and he wound up taking out his teammate. I don't really care for either driver, or this race...I just don't like to see a driver get over exicited and take out a driver for the top spot. Montoya would have found a spot in the next lap or so to make his move, would have been nice to see a clean pass later rather than sooner. How about this weekends CASCAR race...again, lots of good old bumping and grinding going on!

If you or anybody thinks that Juan was not going to be the winner of this race your all dreaming. The only thing said in the whole telecast was Juan, Juan, Juan. Nascar is so greedy for cash, now they will milk the South Americans.
It's amazing that no one is talking about what Denny Hamlin said about the last re-start, how Juan was brake happy and drew his own re-start line. Nascar's a joke.

Brake-checking is a time-honored tradition of racing, John. I'd expect Montoya (or Pruett or Hamlin) to do it. But, yeah, I was surprised at how much Montoya-mania ESPN was showing. There were 42 other (though largely lesser known) drivers in the field.

Dustin takes the bumping incident a little farther based on a conversation he had with a Cup driver after the race. "What it also showed, this driver told me, is that everyone better learn to play rough with Montoya because that's how he's going to play with everyone else."

Like being aggressive is a bad thing in racing, right? Dustin's post is here.

Pruett is full of it! I'm not really a Montoya fan, but he had the line and Pruett tried to block him. Montoya had no where to go. Chip and Felix might want to look at the tape before they let Pruett drive for them again. And Pruett might want to back down before he makes a bigger fool of himself. My opinion of Pruett is no longer what it was, I thought he was a better man than that.

Montoya was impatient and Pruett looked like he tried to chop him off rather abruptly. I have no problem with the bump aside from the fact they were teammates.

I don't think it's fair to say that because Pruett is a part-timer or terrible on ovals justifies Montoya for taking him out. He was leading the race and only drives a few NASCAR races each year. With fewer chances, he probably wanted to win the race more than anyone.

This was a racing incident and Pruett would be just as aggressive to Win! Pruett was losing the handling of his car and would of fell back, even if he was not spin out. Pruett should have let Montoya by!

Well, when one of the native born NASCAR drivers runs Juan into the wall or off the track which will be in the very near future they can always blame it on the Alamo.

I look at it as just a racing incident between two people who are in reality just "part-time" teammates. I don't really have a problem with what Pruett said after the race because it was frustration in the heat of the moment.

It was cleat that Montoya was going to win this race, for what ever reason NASCAR was going to make sure he won this race. And I like Montoya, I've said before I like the drivers that show a great deal of versatility. Now if he dumps little E at Talledega or Martinsville, public sentiment will be a lot different.

My guess is Montoya will give Pruett a lot more room at Sears Point and I would not be surprised if they share a car at the Rolex 24 again next February. At this stage of his career Pruett needs Ganassi more than Ganassi needs him.

I wish JPM would have waited just a bit longer and made a clean pass, no..........the controversial is cool.

I think it was clear that Montoya had a better car. That does NOT allow him to take out the leader of the race. If that's allowed, then I guy can start in the back and just start knocking cars out of the way and go all the way to the front. That incident is getting all to familiar in NASCAR. Win at all costs and call it just a racing incident! BULL! As far as I'm concerned NASCAR should have taken that win away from Montoya. All he had to do was be a little more patient and pass Pruett clean a few laps later. I totally agree with Pruett's comments. He's exactly right-it was dirty, rotten driving----period! However, if these guys are let get away with these types of incidents, they will get worse. That's NOT racing-that's bumper cars. It's up to the guy behind to get around the car in front of you----CLEANLY, especially the leader!

By far Juan's car was better than Scott's. However, instead of pushing Scott aside at first, he should have informed his teammate via team commo that his car was better and kindly move over, stop blocking him, or else. Then if Scott didn't comply, Juan would have no other recourse.