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Coming into the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, Juan Pablo Montoya, driver of the Team Penske No. 2 Chevrolet, hadn’t qualified lower than fifth position. Unfortunately that would end this weekend at Barber Motorsports Park, when he qualified in the last spot.
Despite this, though, he would rebound to have a strong run.
The Colombian would have to work his way through the field the hard way as the only caution happen at the start. But despite no cautions during the race, Montoya was able gain 16 positions, the biggest mover of the race to a fifth place finish.
“The Verizon Chevy was very good,” he said. We had a good car all weekend, but just in qualifying, our tires just didn’t come in. I don’t know what happen and we’ll go back and look at what went wrong there. We knew we had a fast car.
“It was fun and we made some good moves today. On the red tires, I ran them all day pretty much. They were wearing at the end a little bit, but we kept pushing it. At the start of the race, if you would have told me I would have finished fifth, I wouldn’t have believed it.”
Now he will shift gears to the month of May for two races at historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway – first the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the road course at IMS on May 14th, followed by the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 29, which he is the defending race winner of.
