FORMULA ONE RACING Montoya wins final race for BMW capturing Brazilian Grand Prix



Next season he will drive for McLaren team.
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Juan Pablo Montoya won in his final race for Williams-BMW on Sunday, beating future McLaren teammate Kimi Raikkonen to capture the Brazilian Grand Prix.
In the last race of the season, native son Rubens Barrichello started from the pole for the second straight year and led early, but finished third in his best performance in 12 attempts at Interlagos. Barrichello's Ferrari teammate, Michael Schumacher, took seventh place.
"It was the first race I led in Brazil in 2001. I thought I could win," Montoya said. "Now it is nice to finish like this."
It was a disappointment for Ferrari, which won 15 of the 18 races this year and had Schumacher, with 13 of those victories, claim his seventh Formula One title.
Fourth Formula One win
The victory was Montoya's fourth in his Formula One career and first since the 2003 German Grand Prix. Next year, Montoya will drive for McLaren with Raikkonen, who won the Belgian Grand Prix this year.
"It's been four years with Williams. We had our ups, downs and everything," Montoya said.
The 29-old Colombian driver -- a former CART champion and Indy 500 winner -- has struggled in Grand Prix racing and has had a number of problems with Schumacher. He ran into Schumacher at the Monaco Grand Prix, leading to the German's only loss in the first 13 races.
Schumacher, who started 18th after receiving a 10-place penalty for changing engines following a practice-session crash, never was in contention in the 71-lap event.
Rain stops quickly
A light rain halted almost immediately after the start, prompting a parade into the pits over the first few laps for teams to change to dry weather tires. Schumacher, Formula One's best rain driver, said he would have done better if the rain had been as heavy at it was just before the race started instead of letting up and turning into intermittent drizzle.
"I was thinking there was an opportunity," he said.
But he insisted that he did not feel let down with his performance in the last race.
"It's still been a fantastic season, there's no reason to feel disappointed," Schumacher said.
After leading from the green light, Barrichello was among those to pit for tires and dropped to sixth. Fernando Alonso stayed on the track and led until the first regularly scheduled pit stop on lap 18, yielding the front to Montoya.
Montoya held onto his lead following the second round of regular pit stops, with Raikkonen and Barrichello in second and third. By the 55th lap, Montoya was a second ahead of Raikkonen and maintained the advantage over the final 16 laps.
"I came out of the pits and I made one mistake and Kimi was right behind me. I thought 'Don't do anything stupid,' " Montoya said.