Montoya/Ambrose tangle?

[buckaroo]

I worked during the race and was able to listen to it on the radio. I was heading back to the office when Montoya had his bad pit stop and then had to come back in for a lug nut. I then heard that he had some more problems on the track, but nothing more after that because was inside the building and the reception there is all but non-existant. I was able to listen to the last 20 or so laps on the way home and when I pulled into the garage, I listened to the last two laps. Those radio boys made it sound so exciting and I wished that I had been able to see the finish on the TV, but I'd have never made it. Anyway, I kept waiting to see where Ambrose finished so that I could tell my Aussie friend, but couldn't find it on the TV. I finally went to NASCAR.com and clicked on the leaderboard and saw where Ambrose and Montoya finished on the same lap, 21 down. Then a bit later on the local news, I heard that the two of them tangled and that put them out. What happened? Who's fault would it have been? Without knowing anything about it except to know that Ambrose was down a couple of laps from the normal racing and that Montoya was down because of a lug nut, my gut feeling is that JPM was probably a bit over aggressive in his trying to regain his position which at the time was a top five. I can see JPM not giving Marcos any breaks and the two simply wrecked. But I do know from my friend that Ambrose can be very aggressive as well, but I've yet to see that in his still very young carreer here in America.

 

[barelypure]

Montoya was high and Ambrose went up into him. They interviewed the both of them together and Ambrose apologized for the incident. JPM was a little more vague on his acceptance and understanding. But, then JPM was 4th before the pit stop. If not for the lug nut, which he said he started going before the jack dropped, he wouldn't have been in that situation. And he had a good car to finish at least top 10.
I believe Ambrose still leads in Rookie points.

 

[Reck]

Juan Pabloe still brush the wall before the wreck..and it all happened during the restart.

I think he's getting notoriously bad at restarts. I dont think you want to be near him when on a restart.

 

[buckaroo]

Thanks bp for the explanation...you too reck. I did hear that JPM brushed the wall before the biggy.

There's a world of difference in my opinion of the two drivers, even though they are both champions in different series. Though I've seen little of Ambrose except this year and having read about him in the truck series last year, I don't think that he has the base tallent that JPM does, that's not to say that Marcos isn't tallented. From everything I've heard and read here in the US, Ambrose has lots of tallent and will eventually be a winner. Also, I've read and heard him talk about his learning curve and it seems to me that those who are training him, are bringing him up slowly. I don't believe that's the case with JPM and that's obvious with his jump to the bigs without much seat time.

I've talked before that the COT is similar to those cars they race in Australia, but my friend tells me that they only look alike, but are worlds apart.

 

[Magnethead]

your friend is very right. I have a FIA GTR racing game (basically GT classes of the lemans series) and nothing is similar.