I always felt that Montoya deserved this championship. He dominated that whole season.

I consider JPM one of the greatest drivers ever. Every type of car he drove he won in it

Montoya is one of the greatest drivers of all time. He could be competitive driving in any series. When he was in F1 even Der Kaiser Michael Schumacher genuinely feared JPM.

Crazy to think that both Montoya's title fights in American open wheel racing came down to tiebreakers. Outrageous

I always had a soft spot for JPM. F1, Indycar, NASCAR. But he had pros / cons. I believe he's fearless but he might also put himself into spots he could avoid and he struggles to admit a mistake.
During an IndyCar practice at Belle Isle I was in the garage area and he was zooming around on a Penske scooter. To a degree he seemed aloof &, perhaps, a bit arrogant. But.. just as I was about to write him as as a jerk he was asked by a person in a wheelchair for an autograph (right in front of me). JPM got off his scooter, shook that person's hand, posed for a picture, and signed two things for him. I happened to be standing right there so I held out my program. He almost rolled his eyes at me (the jerk was coming back out of him). But I said that I really appreciated what he did for the person he stopped for. He then smiled, and in his Columbian accent said "That guy lives a hard life.. I try to stop for people who have hard lives". He then quickly signed my program, hopped on his scooter, and drove to his motorhome.
That was pretty cool. He gets an A for knowing when an autograph is truly important (not mine, the person before me). I have a picture of him with that other person. It's cool.

I raced go karts while growing up and I lived in Florida and raced in Miami or homestead and JMP would often come to watch as his dad was responsible for the racing series we were in (easy kart). I had a helmet which was JMP helmet design at the time 2003 but instead of Colombian colors I had German flag colors. He walked by one time and saw me wearing it , he said “ I like that.👍🏼” and walked away.
Very happy he approved and super happy to have met and raced infront of him

The Best driver from Colombia, and one of the best drivers in Motorsport history. He achieved that a whole country watch Motorsport alongside soccer and ciclism as colombia is. He deserved the 2015 title  and more wins in Nascar. Great video man.

Alex Palou watching this video after the last 2 weeks 👀

I loved this video. I really hope you could make a series out of it, maybe looking into other motorsports as well.

As for other suggestions:
IndyCar:
-Will Power (2012): Power lead Ryan Hunter-Reay by 36 points with 2 rounds to go and still managed to lose it, due to a crash in the final race at Fontana.

-Hélio Castroneves (2003): He had a 25 point lead with 3 rounds to go and 42 points ahead of actual Champion Scott Dixon, before eventually dropping behind both in the title race due to a pretty bad final stretch

NASCAR:
-Denny Hamlin (2010)
Was the regular season champion that year and seemed to finally end Jimmie Johnson's dominance after leading by 30+ points with 2 to go. Well, he didn't score another Top-10 after that, meaning Johnson won title nr. 5

-Kevin Harvick (2020):
He won 9 races that year (4 more than actual champion Elliott) and lead the title race after the Round of 8, before finishing second in the first race of the round of 8. Then he completely collapsed, not finishing in the top-15 in the other two races, losing him the title.

Formula 1:
Lewis Hamilton (2007)
In his rookie season, he lead the title race by 12 points from team mate Fernando Alonso, with 2 races to go (which was more than a race win), before only scoring two points in the final two races, losing the title to Kimi Räikkönen by one point (who won the final two races)

Fernando Alonso (2010)
Alonso lead the championship until the final round in Abu Dhabi, 15 points ahead of eventual winner Sebastian Vettel and 8 ahead of nearest title rival Mark Webber. A bad strategy call and him not managing to pass Vitaly Petrov lead him to losing the title by 4 points.

WRC:
Colin McRae (2001):
Had a championship lead  of 1 point over Tommi Mäkinen and 2 over Richard Burns ahead of the final rallye of the season. Mäkinen retired on the first day and McRae was in a secure spot to win the title as Burns did not have a lot of pace. Made a mistake by himself and threw the title away.

Carlos Sainz (1998):
Was 1 point behind Tommi Mäkinen ahead of the final rallye of the season. However, Mäkinen retired after an accident on day 1, leading Sainz needing to just cruise home. He was in fourth place when he suffered an engine failure 500m from the end of the rallye/championship.

DTM:
Liam Lawson (2021)
Had a pretty solid lead over title contenders Kelvin van der Linde and an even bigger one over Maximilian Götz ahead of the final two races at the Norisring. In the first one he started from Pole, but KVL pushed him out of the way, leading to Götz winning race 1. Lawson still increased his Championship lead, but in race 2 KVL rammed into Lawson, taking the Kiwi out of the race. KVL later retired and Götz was in P3. Like that, Lawson would've won the title, but Mercedes gave the two leaders a team order, meaning Götz was let through and won the title

Mattias Ekström (2017)

Despite only winning one race the whole season, Ekström had a pretty big lead in the championship ahead of the final round at Hockenheim. Eventual champion René Rast (who was in his first full season) was 13 points behind him. However Ekström would only score 4 points in the final two races, meaning he lost the championship.

To be honest, that season finale was very similar to NASCAR 1992 Hooters 500. In that NASCAR race you had six drivers that were eligible to win the championship going into the final race (3 long shots and 3 contenders). In the Indy car race, you had six drivers that were eligible to win the championship (3 long shots and 3 contenders)

Mate I must say, this video (along with a handful of other videos I just watched on your channel) are A1! Not just the production value but also how you capture the sentiment going into the races which is obviously hard to do without relying on the viewers memory. Great work mate, absolutely love the content!

I think Montoya might be the only driver to be on both ends of a championship tie break in a major racing series.

Another banger of Demise the GOAT

There are aspects of this Indycar season that resonate strongly with the 2007 Formula 1 season, (and I'm not including the off-track scandals that happened in F1 that year). If memory serves me right, Lewis Hamilton was about 25-30 points clear of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari by the mid point at the US GP, but by the penultimate round in China, he was just 6-7 points ahead, only to lose it at the final race in Brazil. He made up for it in 2008, but I still believe that '07 should've been Hamilton's year, which would have been spectacular as that was his rookie season.

Me watching Sonoma live as a kid as a Dixon fan was the most fun thing ever.

As a Wisconsin...and Milwaukee Mile boy thanks for saying as the iconic Milwaukee Mile. Almost just as good as saying the Legendary Milwaukee Mile...

Dixon was very lucky in 2013 and 2015

Great  vid, seems like yesterday. G. Rahal won races that year!

great breakdown! this one definitely felt missing from the first day, what a rough way to lose it tbh

Im an older guy that loves his motorsport, all levels. Being an Aussie, it's great to see Scotty doing great in Indycar, even though he's a New Zealander, lol. Your videos are awesome, the effort you put in telling the story of each one is to be commended. Keep them coming....