talksport<\/a>, the former Williams and McLaren driver, who works on Formula 1\u2019s official broadcast team, insisted there is no genuine feud.<\/p>\n\u201cNo, no, there\u2019s no drama,\u201d Montoya said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there is drama\u2026 if you\u2019re angry about this, you\u2019re having more trouble in your life than you should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montoya, now 50 and remembered for being one of the most exciting drivers in history, revealed he still speaks cordially with both Verstappen and his father Jos Verstappen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have spoken to Max at races in the past and we can actually get along well,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t talk much to each other, but we say hello to each other, and I also say hello to Jos. We\u2019ve never had any problems, and I think we don\u2019t have any problems now either.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Montoya also doubled down on another controversial opinion, criticizing Verstappen for racing a Mercedes GT3 car at the N\u00fcrburgring while still contracted to Red Bull and Ford.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was wrong for Max to drive in that Mercedes at the N\u00fcrburgring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Ford puts so much money into the sport at Red Bull, it\u2019s just wrong to drive a Mercedes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Montoya also insisted his original comments about Verstappen had been distorted and \u201ccompletely taken out of context\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just said that drivers who give Formula 1 sh*t should get penalty points or a race suspension, as they do in other sports.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I work for you and talk bad about your company, you\u2019re going to fire me too. That\u2019s how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Montoya, Verstappen only became involved after journalists specifically asked him to respond. And the Colombian admitted he would likely have reacted similarly in Verstappen\u2019s position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it had been the other way around, I would have said the same thing Max said,\u201d Montoya said.<\/p>\n
Finally, Montoya also took aim at Brundle himself, reviving a long-running tension between the two former drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin Brundle never liked me and that feeling is mutual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(GMM) Juan Pablo Montoya has hit back again at Max Verstappen (pictured)after their public war of words escalated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-697110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Tony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kanaan-and-montoya.jpg\")
Tony Kanaan (L) and totally irrelevant Juan Montoya (R) who is jealous of Max Verstappen because his own F1 career was a failure. He was run out of F1 and sent packing back to IndyCar and NASCAR. Photo supplied by IMS<\/p>\n