Montoya's engine failures quite often follow his pit stops . . .

After watching Montoya's exciting drive spoiled yet again by a post-pitstop engine failure I decided to do my part to help the BMW-Williams team. I did some interesting research on Montoya's engine failures from last year and this season:

Grand Prix Pit Lap -- Engine Failure Lap

2001
French 50--52
German 22--24
US 36--38

2002
Monaco --47
Canadian 51--56

I'm willing to bet the engine is weakened by thermal stress due to lack of cooling airflow during the pit stop. Once back on the track the weakened engine soon fails.

Whaddaya you guys think?

Sounds perfectly reasonable. They should blow a little CO2 into the radiators with a fire extinguisher. Not sure that's legal or not but next time maybe they could fake a fire.

If that's the reason, I'm sure their telemetry is screaming it at them.