Montoya crashed into one of the jet Dryers
I am amazed Montoya wasn't badly hurt.
Did something fail, or did he just drop a wheel onto the (wet) yellow line?
Well he is allowed to go faster than 55mph on caution to catch up to the pack. Something on his car failed. Would have crashed even at a slower speed.
If you watch the video in HD (if you can find it, now that there's millions of crappy quality versions which were recorded using a potato) you can see the back of the car drop and sparks fly out just before JPM veers towards the drier.He had a monstrous vibration in all 4 gears apparently, so it seems likely that something in the rear broke.Did something fail, or did he just drop a wheel onto the (wet) yellow line?
He had already told his pit crew that something had broken on the back of his car so anyone with an ounce of common sense would have driven slower when there were marshalls on the track.