Juan Pablo Montoya has explained꧒ his anger at Michaelꦫ Schumacher after their infamous “blind or stupid” altercation.

Ferrari’s Schumacher aggressively held off Williams’ Montoya oꦚn the opening lap aꦑt the 2004 San Marino Grand Prix.

Schumacher ended up winni🌄ng, but third-placed Mo𝓀ntoya later hit out: “You’ve got to be blind or stupid to not see me!”

Montoya has since reflected on the Beyond The Grid podcast: “They were quicker than us. But we were quick and on fr⛦esh tyres.

“Tℱo pass him, I had to go straight away. He drove me 👍off the track but I was okay.

“I would’ve done the same thing!

“I was okay with it. If he said in the interview ‘I drove🍷 him off the track’ the💧n I would have been okay with it.

“But he said ‘I didn’t see him’.

“Everybody thinks and talks but I talk and think! I surprise everybody else ar🏅ound me!”

'People thought I was crazy, it worked'

Mon🐈toya expressed his annoyance t🐎hat fellow drivers would not battle the dominant Schumacher during his Ferrari pomp.

“The annoying th🅷ing with Michael? Nobody raced him,” claimed Montoya.

“When he came from the back it was ‘ah, Michael is 𒈔coming, get out of the way’.

“That p****** me off.

“It w💝as like ‘oh, it’s Michael, don’t f*** with Michael’๊. He had so much respect.

“My approach to racing? I was such an asshole when racing. People thought I was crazy, and iꦆt worked.

“When I threw the car in, they knew I wouldn’t get out of the way. ♛Yo༒u had two choices - you give me room, or we crash!

“The only time I talked to Michael was when I raced for BMW, andꦗ he was with Ferrari.

“We were ꦬinvited to a party at the Nurburgring after the race.

🦋“It was me, Michael and Rubens. The three of us got drunk, and that was it!”