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Monty on crossroads
Juan Pablo Montoya has refused to rule out his Formula One title chances despite being 43 points behind leader Fernando Alonso but accepts h...
Written by Alan Baldwin
Indianapolis | June 18, 2005 12:00 AM IST
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Juan Pablo Montoya has refused to rule out his Formula One title chances despite being 43 points behind leader Fernando Alonso but accepts his role is more likely to be to help his McLaren team mate Kimi Raikkonen.
The Colombian told a US Grand Prix news conference on Thursday that while he would be prepared to help Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen win the crown, he still had his own ambitions.
“If mathematically I’m out of the points, yes, you would be (prepared to help),” he said. “It would be a case of work with the team, not against the team.
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“But until that happens, I think we’ve still got quite a few races. I think I’ve got the pace to close the points on Fernando and Kimi, so I’m not too bothered about that to be honest.”
Raikkonen, with 37 points to Alonso’s 59, has won three of the last four races in a season dominated by Renault and McLaren.
Montoya missed two races after suffering a shoulder injury while playing tennis in March and was disqualified from the Canadian GP for ignoring a red light.
(Reuters)
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