Juan Pablo “I don’t work Past Five” Montoya

When drivers are competitive or in this case make the Chase they are bombarded with requests for interviews from various media outlets. So in order to facilitate all the requests and not have the driver going from location to location taking an entire day.  What NASCAR and the top media outlets have done is co-op the feed, the driver goes to one location like the media center for that weeks race and there’s one or two camera’s set up and the media outlets each get a turn to interview the driver and the feed is beamed to a satellite and then bounced to the station, each reporter getting their turn then the stations edit out their reporters interview and run the spot on their respective networks or stations. The reporters don’t even have to be at the track the same way they beam the drivers feed to the station they beam the reporters feed to the track. It’s really really a convenience to all concerned but mainly the driver because what makes a driver money is popularity, popular driver get sponsors and fans, so when a driver can talk to media outlets from around the country without having to leave the track it’s a huge convenience for them.

Anyway onward to the point of the post, during one of Montoya’s scheduled media tours from the media center at New Hampshire Inter’l Speedway after a handful of interviews he had one more but Montoya looks down at his watch and says 5:01 that’s it I’m done and in the background you can hear from who I’m guessing was someone from NASCAR PR begging him to finish and do the last interview and he’s says coldly without care “NOPE“ and walks off. Those present at the Media event said Montoya had been complaining on how hard it was and how long it was taking. Boo Hoo

Have NASCAR drivers in general forgotten who put NASCAR on the map ? Or is it just Montoya since he’s NEVER been competitive he’s never been a sought after interview , it might not be rudeness it may be ignorance.

When a NASCAR driver refuses an interview he’s slapping fans in the face because we spend our money on their products and at the races. We get so very little chance to hear from them so when we see our local news guy get shut out  it’s not the news guy that gets shut out it’s us the fans. We as fans only have one way to retaliate that’s through the drivers sponsors Montoilets I’m mean Montoya his sponsor is Target so it’s just as easy to shop at Wal-Mart. I don’t know about you but I support sponsors that sponsor NASCAR and its drivers but Target is one I won’t be supporting and you know it’s not just because he was tired and didn’t want to do anymore interviews it’s because of his attitude.

 

Here’s the Video judge for yourself   Montoya’s  interview