MOTOR RACING: Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa will replace Juan Pablo Montoya in Sunday's French Grand Prix after the Colombian parted company with McLaren yesterday.
"Team McLaren Mercedes and Juan Pablo Montoya have mutually agreed for him to step down in the forthcoming races of this year's Formula One World Championship," McLaren said in a statement.
"The team has decided that Pedro de la Rosa will join Kimi Raikkonen in the race-driver line-up."
Montoya took Formula One by surprise on Sunday when he turned up in Chicago to announce he was moving to Nascar next year in a team run by Chip Ganassi, with whom he won the Cart championship and Indy 500 in 1999 and 2000.
The Colombian said of Formula One on Sunday, "Anyone who watches the races knows it's not the most exciting thing you can watch."
De la Rosa, the team's regular test driver, will make his second race appearance for McLaren at Magny-Cours after standing in for Montoya in Bahrain last year.
