Rage explained behind “blind or stupid” Michael Schumacher insult

"If he said in the 💙interview ‘I drove him off the track’ then I would have been okay with it"

Schumacher, Montoya
Schumacher, Montoya

Juan Pablo Montoya has explaꦚined his anger at Michael Schumacher after their𒅌 infamous “blind or stupid” altercation.

Ferrari’s Schumacher aggressively held off Williams’ Monto🐻ya on the opening lap at the 2004 San Marino Grand Prix.

Schumacher ended up winning, but third-placed Montoya later hit out: “You’ve got to be blind or stup🌞id to not see me!”

Montoya has since reflected on the Beyond The Grid podcast: “They were quicker than us. But we were quick and on fresh tyre📖s.

“To pass hiꦛm, I had to go straight away. He drove me off thꦏe track but I was okay.

“I would’ve done the same thing!

“I was okay with it. If he said in 🀅the interview ‘I drove him off the trac🐼k’ then I would have been okay with it.

“But he said ‘I didn’t see him’.

“Everybody thinks and talks but I✅ talk and think! I surprise everybody else around me!”

'People thought I was crazy, it worked'

Montoya expressed his an꧋noyance that fellow drivers would not battle the dominant🔜 Schumacher during his Ferrari pomp.

“The annoying thing withꦇ Michael?🐈 Nobody raced him,” claimed Montoya.

“When he came from the back it was ‘ah, Michael is coming, get out of th🍒e way’.

“That p****** me off.

“It was like ‘oh, it’s Michael, don’t f*𒉰** with Michael’. He had so much respect.

“My approach 🐎to racing? I was such an asshole when ﷺracing. People thought I was crazy, and it worked.

“When I threw the car in, they knew I wouldn’t get out of the way. You had two choice🎃s - you give me room, or we crash!

“The onlꦕy time I talked 🍰to Michael was when I raced for BMW, and he was with Ferrari.

“We were invited to a p♍arty at the Nurburgring after the 🔯race.

“It w💯as me, Michael and Rubens. The three of us got drunk, and that was it!”

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