Schu to win and then quit – Montoya
''Surely he is smart enough to do that,'' the 30-year-old, who acrimoniously left McLaren last month to start a NASCAR career for 2007, told Colombian newspaper 'El Tiempo'.
''Michael will win, and if he does he will stop,'' said Montoya. ''If not, what I have avoided could happen to him.''
Montoya insists that a seven time world champion like Schumacher should not quit the sport 'a loser'.
Seven time grand prix winner Montoya, meanwhile, also let off a bit of steam following his formula one exit, insisting that he was 'bored' with the pinnacle of racing.
''There were too many (car) failures,'' he explained, ''and it is no fun to be fighting for fifth or sixth places.'
"At the end I wasn't even speaking to Ron Dennis," Montoya said. "When I left, his lawyer called mine and said: 'This is what we will do'. That's how it was done: from lawyer to lawyer."
"My relationship with Ron was fine until I broke my shoulder [at the beginning of 2005]. I called him and told him what happened. The British press made up another story and they started to make fun of Ron for believing my version.
"And he thought I had made him look like an idiot to everybody. From that moment, our relationship was never the same."
[Editor's Note: Ask Michael Andretti what kind of person Ron Dennis is. Andretti was terminated from McLaren after a 3rd place finish at Monza for McLaren that year after Dennis deliberately kept Andretti from doing hardly any pre-season testing, which resulting in Andretti not being prepared for the switch from CART to F1. For that one year only the FIA changed the rules so that each driver only had in the neighborhood of 7 to 13 laps per practice and qualifying session. With no pre-season testing and very few laps to run during race weekends, Andretti had no chance to learn the tracks or the car. He was doomed for failure. This was during a period when Bernie Ecclestone was worried about CART getting too big and he would badmouth CART every week in the media to put them down. Many speculate that Andretti was setup to fail to make CART drivers look inferior. If so, they accomplished their mission.]