European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 30 stars and stripes june 2007 Montoya does it in Mart 350 racing Roundup colombian earns first Sextel cup win in Road race by Mike Harris the associated press when team owner Chip Ganassi first came up with the thought of luring Juan Pablo Montoya Back to America from formula it was Days like this that he had in Montoya used his Well honed Road racing skill to save his tires and stretch his fuel winning the Mart 350 at Infin Eon raceway for his first Lascar Sextel cup one of the Nice working with him is Hes matured in a Way As a race Driver that you could not write in a said for whom Montoya won the 1999 cart championship and the 2000 Indianapolis Hes a lot if you can imagine he actually came on the radio today and its a Little too Early to race these i was looking at Crew chief Donnie Wingo and he was looking at Juans a changed All in a positive the Lascar who qualified a Dis appointing 32nd in the 43car was the first Driver to win on the Northern califor Nia Road circuit starting further Back than who jumped from formula one to the Stock car circuit late last got his first cup Victory in his 17th Start More gave Ganassi his first Victory in Nastars top series since Jamie Mcmurray won in october its Montoya i would say right now its the biggest thing Ive in that what i was meant to be winning in Stock i to get our first win in our first year is we know were a Little bit behind on some of the but i think this is a big boost for everybody working in the series Points Leader Jeff Gordon Over came a Lis place Start to finish just be Hind Greg Biffle and Tony Stewart in seventh with a strategic Effort in the first Road race for Nastars new car of Ninon oyo i a Infine Oft Marcio Jose Juan Pablo Montoya celebrates sunday after winning the Mart 350 at Infine on raceway in it was Montoya first Sextel cup whose Only other Lascar Vic tory came earlier this year in a Busch series race on the Road course in Mexico passed who now drives for Roush Fenway on the 104th of 110 laps on the 12turn Montoya was running trailing my Murray and Kevin Harvick and desperately conserving fuel with 18 laps to he passed Harvick on Lap 92 and began to track Down what really paid off at the end was i was just running behind saving the tires and trying to keep up with Mon Toya i did that for 15 laps and i started i started making up ground on them and that when every thing fell into the pass that counted came on Lap with Montoya getting under Mcmurray car and passing i saw he was always hugging that Cor Ner and i this is i knew i could pass him Montoya Wingo said his calculations told him Montoya would run out of fuel about a Lap from the we had to play a Little bit of so we had to take a Gamble there at the Wingo he did a great Job on saving everybody did a Good Job on the and the motor shop did a great without the fuel mileage wed have never made Mcmurray ran out of Gas at the Start of Lap 109 and finished 37th while Montoya saved enough fuel to run a Coo Down Lap and do a Victory burnout before his fuel Light came Harvick inherited second place when Mcmurray he was followed across the finish line by Richard Childress racing teammates Jeff Burton and Clint who also got great fuel who appeared to be getting the Best mileage of thought he might have the race won when Mcmurray slowed and Montoya was Short shifting to save Gas late in the they came on the radio youve got 20 laps to make up one Lap of fuel and the two cars in front of you Are both three laps Harvick that How we played it and he Montoya didst run out of Harvick want surprised that he was chasing Montoya at the Ive been a big fan of Montoya since he came Harvick Hes a great Road but he want the the strategy won it for him Robby who started alongside pol Winner also was a victim of failed strategy after leading a race High 48 he finished Reed Sorenson spun out on Lap bring ing out the last full course caution while Robby Gordon and several other leaders gambled and stayed on opt ing to pit later under Montoya and other contenders made their final stops under the yellow Flag on Lap Montoya came out of that Stop 12th but moved steadily Forward As the Drivers ahead of him began to make their Gas he was third by Lap setting up the dramatic indy car at Dario fran Chitti Hung around the Lead As car after car ran into trouble on the Iowa speedways new Short he made a daring move to grab the top spot As soon As he saw an open then kept it by using his the indy car series Points survived a Slippery track and a Furi Ous late charge by teammate Marco Andretti to win the inaugural Iowa Corn indy 250 on whose other Victory in 2007 came in the indy held the cherished Bottom line on the final laps to win by the Victory helped fran Chitti open a 51point Lead Over Tony Kanaan in the Driver Champ car upon winning the grand prix of Paul Tracy was handed a guitar shaped trophy made of its still in one Tracy has a habit of knocking into using All his driving tricks and the front end of his car to bump his Way from the Back of the Field to the Tracy won for the first time in two years on holding off Rookie Robert Doorn bos to win the grand prix of tracks third Victory in Cleveland and his 31st career Victory came after he was involved in two Early mishaps that forced his pit Crew to change his front Wing twice in the first seven cos Oregon state gets rolling at just the right time from Back Page they got on a Roll during the re Ginals in Virginia and ended the season with 10 straight weve had High expectations on us from shortstop Darwin Barney but every team is gunning for every game you have that bulls Eye on your our chemistry has never been not through the ups and there was always Trust and belief on this Barneys two run Homer gave the beavers the Lead in the Sec Ond inning and Jordan Lennerton hit his second Homer in two a two run shot in the the tar heels didst get much going against Oregon states steady pitching and solid and were shut Down whenever they appeared on the verge of a big Mark Grbavac and Joe Pater son combined to retire the last seven North Carolina Paterson got a called third strike against Pinch hitter Kyle Shelton to end the its its just Casey i just Felt like we were going to there is some thing in that the beavers didst Trail in any of their first four games at the their closest game was their a 32 Victory Over Cal state victories of 126 Over Arizona state and 71 Over us Irvine got them into the i when we got we were excited to get in that dugout and in that locker Barney we feel very comfortable in this is this is the beavers knocked out North Carolina starter Luke put Konen 82 in the second inning after Barney lined a pitch Over the Loftfield another run scored on third baseman Chad flacks throwing a went Only innings in the shortest Outing of his tar heels coach Mike Fox made a Surprise move by bring ing in closer Andrew whose appearance in the second inning earliest in two not even who Al Lowed no runs and Only one hit in 6va cos innings before could Stop the any time you can get to their bullpen in the second that saying Bea vers left fielder John Wallace we knew the closer  go 7v3 we tried to get on him Early and we got him out of there in the and we kept putting it on after singles by Scott Santschi in the third and Wallace in the fifth stretched the Lead to Dustin Ackley hit his second Homer of the cos and 10th of the season to pull North Carolina to but Santschi third rib sin Gle and Chris Hopkins infield hit made it 73 in the Ackley rib single in the first put North Carolina up 10 and ended a Streak of 61 innings Over seven games in which Oregon state led or was the beavers haunt trailed in a cos game in 50 since the fourth Frame of game 2 of last years North Carolinas first three Bat ters reached against Mike Stutes 124 in the first and third in but the tar heels came away with Only one run each Ackley homered in the and two More batters reached be fore Stutes induced an inning end ing after Garrett Gore doubled in the Anton Maxwell entered and hit Josh Horton to put two runners on with the dangerous Ackley coming up Ackley drove a liner into left Field that Wallace snagged to end the in the Tim Fedroff tried to score on Seth Williams hit to the Loftfield but Wal lace threw to the Short whose relay Home was in plenty of time to get Fedroff at the Texas Southern Cali fornia 197074 and Stanford 198788 also won consecutive