Bring Back V10s: Montoya's final Williams win at Brazil 2004

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Juan Pablo Montoya and Williams brought their rollercoaster relationship to a close with a memorable victory at the 2004 season finale in Brazil, where Montoya beat his future McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in a tense battle.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Jon Noble and Ben Anderson to look back on a weekend where dominant 2004 champion Michael Schumacher was a surprising non-factor, and Montoya was able to salvage something from a tough season for Williams.

Off-track, we look at David Coulthard's bid to get a drive with Williams, and why the team was also looking at bringing his old McLaren team-mate Mika Hakkinen out of retirement. Plus we revisit how Eddie Jordan realised he was reaching the end of the road in F1 as a team owner.

There's plenty of F1 politics, with new rules announced for 2005 and 2006 (including the banning of V10s!), and another dispute where the entire grid seemed to be united against Ferrari.

And we couldn't possibly talk about the end of 2004 without paying homage to 'Donkey Does F1', looking at how an inflatable donkey probably became F1's first viral character!

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1:24.5	Not many classic F1 partnerships get to end on a high, but when Pabloablo Montaura and Williams got to do just that at the end of a difficult 2004 season, when he signed off with victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix before heading off to McLaren.
1:39.0	Montoya came out on top in a close-run battle with his future teammate, Kimmy Reikinen, while that year's dominant champion
1:45.0	Michael Schumacher was nowhere on a scrappy final weekend of the season. It was also the weekend
1:50.6	when David Calford said goodbye to McLaren after nine years together. Jensen Button found out
1:56.1	he'd be forced to stay with BAR rather than move to Williams for 2005, and F1 announced short-notice
2:02.8	rule changes for 2005 and the arrival of V8 engines for 2006.
2:08.8	Boo!
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