Juan Pablo Montoya received no 45th birthday present from the Le Mans 24-Hour Race as he was forced to retire in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Colombian, who won seven F1 races for Williams and McLaren between 2001 and 2005 before leaving for NASCAR halfway through the 2006 season, was competing at Le Mans for the second time.

In 2018, driving a Ligier in the LMP2 category for a team co-owned by McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown, Montoya finished third in class and P7 overall.

But this time, driving an Oreca for the DragonSpeed USA team, he and co-drivers Timothe Buret and Memo Rojas were beset by mechanical problems.

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