Imagine Babe Ruth giving up Major League baseball and going to play in the Mississauga Recreational Three-Pitch league. This just happened. Juan Pablo Montoya has signed with Chip Ganassi Racing as their shoe in the 2007 NASCAR season.
Montoya has signed on the line. He’s coming from Formula One, the biggest, most lucrative, most over-wrought international circus of motorsports. Montoya is going to the biggest, most lucrative, mildly over-wrought North American motorsports circus.
It proves that Montoya is a real racer. Formula One is a nose-to-tail high speed processional that is led by either Schumacher or Alonzo. NASCAR is forty-two rats dumped out of a sack when the green is dropped.
Oh boy! Let the fun begin.
RoadDave 