Montoya(s) at School

How would you feel if you enrolled in a racing school, and one of the people there to give you advice and
encouragement was a CART Champ Car champion, an Indy 500 winner and a three-time F1 race winner? That
would be pretty cool, don't you think?

Well, that exact scenario just happened at the Skip Barber Racing School in Sebring, Fla. A 16-year-old karter,
making his first foray into racing cars, took a Skip Barber Two-Day Advanced Racing coursel. According to lead
instructor Walt Bohren, the young karter did an exceptional job, following a bit of apprehensiveness in the
beginning. And what famous racer was there to offer a hand? None other than Juan Pablo Montoya. And who was
he helping? His little brother?

SEBRING, Fla. (November) - Frederico Montoya, the younger brother of Juan Pablo Montoya -- Barber Dodge race
winner, CART-Champ Car Champion, Indy 500 winner, three-time F1 race winner -- completed one of Skip Barber
Racing's Advanced Two-Day Racing Schools at Sebring International Raceway last week. Using the same car as
employed in the four Skip Barber Regional Series as well as the Formula Dodge National Championship Presented
by RACER -- the two-liter, 140h.p., sequential gearboxed R/T 2000 -- the up-and-coming karting star lapped the
Sebring Modified circuit within a few tenths of what the frontrunners in the regional and national series do.

Older brother Juan Pablo was there to lend support, as well as observe the Skip Barber teaching system. The F1 star
said even he learned a few things from the instructor corps in charge of the class: Walt Bohren, Don Kutschall, Todd
Snyder and Keith Watts.

The boys' dad, Pablo, was also on hand during the two-day school and said he was impressed by the curriculum,
which included sequential-gearbox technique, trail-brake practice, passing exercises, full-course lapping, starts and
re-starts.

Final note: Divina Galica, managing director of both the Formula Dodge National Championship and the four
regional Skip Barber Race Series, had conversations with Frederico's father about the youngster entering the
Southern Region Race Series event at Moroso Motorsports Park in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Dec. 5-6-7, with Juan
possibly stopping by. Hmmm? that's the same race weekend that Michael Andretti is guest coaching. And that
would make for an A-list pit lane, we would say?