Montoya broke truck arm before Daytona crash
CAN YOU EXPLAIN TECHNICALLY WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED TO THE CAR? WHAT BROKE ON THE CAR?
Crew Chief Chris Heroy: "Yeah, it was the truck arm that failed."
WAS IT JUST ONE? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT'S HOOKED-UP TO AND WHAT ALL THAT DOES?
Heroy: "It's hooked-up to the housing. One failed and then the other, because of the one failing. The housing came out, basically."
DID YOU HAVE ANY INDICATION? YOU SAID YOU FELT A VIBRATION. COULD IT HAVE BEEN THE FIRST ONE GOING BEFORE THE SECOND ONE WENT AND YOU LOST CONTROL OF THE CAR?
Montoya: "No, I'll be honest with you. In my opinion I think it was close to failing and it hadn't failed yet because the guys went underneath the car and they checked everything and they moved and pulled everything and everything was in place. It was just the loading of the car. It was just too high."
DID THIS GIVE YOU EVEN MORE FAITH IN THE (SAFETY) OF THE CARS?
Montoya: "People, like when the COT came out, people complained about it and it wasn't this and it wasn't that and the view and the size and the this. I'll guarantee you if we would have been in the older cars I wouldn't have been okay. So I'm pretty happy we are in these cars. It's pretty amazing what NASCAR does."
DID FIRE SHOOT THROUGH THE CAR AND THROUGH THE COCKPIT?
Montoya: "Yeah, there was a little flames for a second. It wasn't much. It didn't even get hot. It's like I saw the flames everywhere and I'm like, I'd better get out of this fast. That was it."
IS YOUR FOOT BRUISED?
Montoya: "Yeah it's just the top of my feet where it hit; it actually broke the boot (protective heat shield that goes on driver's shoe) and everything. Chevy PR