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Montoya's off to a team in crisis

Is Juan Pablo Montoya worried that he's off to join a top-team in crisis? The Colombian will switch from BMW Williams to McLaren in 2005 but the outfit in Mercedes-Benz silver has rolled out its worst start to a season in 23 years. 'It's too early to say anything,' Juan told Autosport. 'It's still a year to go before I go there, so I'm not really bothered.'

Montoya, 28, admitted that Woking's MP4-19 motor car is not performing. 'But maybe they're looking at the future,' he continued. 'It's not a one-year thing, maybe ...  Don't know. Right now it doesn't look that good here either. The idea is to win but we don't seem to be catching Ferrari.'

Montoya is taking a few days off but he'll be in Paul Ricard next week. 'Right now, we've got what we've got,' he said. 'We have to deal with it.'

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