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"

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!”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football,🎃 to F1.