strong>Juan Pablo Montoya Grabs the Pole at New Hampshire; Team Chevy Drivers Score Three of Top-Five and Five of Top-10 Starters for Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Loudon, NH – Juan Pablo Montoya captured his first pole of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season by putting the No. 42 Target Chevrolet in the number one starting spot of the 43-car field for the Lenox Industrial Tools 301.  It is Montoya’s...

JPM met with media and discussed winning the Indy 500 and Monaco, his expectations for Sunday’s race, the season outlook, and more. WHAT IS YOUR OUTLOOK HEADING INTO SUNDAY’S DAYTONA 500? “I think we’ve got a good car. You have to be smart. In the Shootout I pushed (Greg) Biffle really hard and damaged the front of the car. I went too hard. So yesterday you have to be like self conscious...

JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, NO. 42 TARGET IMPALA, met with members of the media at Daytona Media day and discussed Danica Patrick and the transition from open wheel to stock car, the new rules, self-policing, bump-drafting, and more. Full transcript: ON TWITTER YOU SAID YOU ENJOY THE RACING MORE THAN YOU ENJOY THIS PART, CORRECT? “Yes. Why are we here? It is the race cars. It is ok. It is just a long day....

WITH THREE TO GO REFLECT BACK ON THE PROGRESS YOUR RACE TEAM HAS MADE AND WHAT YOU WANT TO TRY TO ACHIEVE IN THESE FINAL THREE RACES. “It’s hard to know exactly what you want. It would be nice if we could get a win out of these three races. We’ve worked really hard all year. I don’t know. We’ll see what happens. Overall I think it’s been a great season. If you sit down and look back a year ago where...

TAKE US THROUGH THE RESTART FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, WHAT HAPPENED? “Well they all kind of went and then they checked up and I checked up and I don’t know somebody didn’t slow down and just ripped of the whole rear of the car. Then I got hit into the car in front of us. I don’t know, just one of those deals. It was weird, actually a lot of things on the race track you could see and the...

THE MODERATOR:  Our third place finisher today has joined us here in the interview room in the garage.  That’s Juan Pablo Montoya.  Tell us about your run today. JUAN PABLO MONTOYA: When it was cool, we were really good.  We had the fastest car, and I could just had drifted through the corner enough, just pedalled the car through the corner, got really fast. As it got harder, I got looser, and couldn’t...

YOUR OUTLOOK ON KANSAS? “I don’t know. You know I haven’t even done a single lap so it’s hard to say our outlook. It’s been good. We normally run pretty good on the 1.5-mile tracks. This is pretty close to Chicago. We had a decent race there, not the best. We were I think top-10 there. You just got to see how good the car is. I think it’s a new car, I’m not 100 percent sure but I think it is. It’s...

THE MODERATOR:  We’re now joined in the infield media center by driver of the No. 42, the Target Chevrolet, Juan Pablo Montoya.  Juan Pablo, tell us about your run today. JUAN PABLO MONTOYA:  It was up and down, all kind of things.  Overall it was good.  We started really good, really strong.  Like the first 30 laps or 40 laps of the run, we were the fastest car, then it seemed to go away; we just...

Team Chevy has six drivers in the 2009 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, more than any other manufacturer Mark Martin, No. 5 CARQUEST/Kellogg’s Impala SS, is the No. 1 seed with four (4) wins to-date in 2009 In 25 starts at NHMS, Martin has 8 top-five and 13 top-10 finishes with 2 poles Tony Stewart, No. 14 Old Spice/ Office Depot Impala SS is the No. 2 seed with three (3) wins to-date in 2009 In 21 NHMS...

Mark Martin, No. 5 Kellogg’s/CARQUEST Impala SS, finished fourth in the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 to secure the top-seed heading in to the final 10-races of the 2009 season. With four wins this season, Martin leads a six-car Team Chevy contingency in 12-car battle as the 2009 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup field was set tonight at Richmond International Raceway. Tony Stewart, No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice...