Formula 1 » Montoya: McLaren take F1 much too seriously.

30/07/2008 22:36. Former F1 and current NASCAR star Juan-Pablo Montoya hits out at former employers Ron Dennis and McLaren-Mercedes for taking the sport too seriously and wanting drivers to be like 'robots'.

“In Formula 1 they want you to be a robot,” he told German publication Sport Bild . “If you have a strong personality, you will have problems. I don't regret anything about changing to NASCAR.”

Whilst recalling with a degree of warmth his four-year period spent at Williams from 2001 to 2004, the 32-year-old had some harsh words for subsequent employer McLaren-Mercedes and his team-mate at Woking, Kimi Raikkonen , and suggested that the current grand... // crash.net