"My relationship with him (Montoya) has changed," said Schumacher. "To be honest, there's two reasons for the change. The main one is that we now know each other, whereas before we didn't. He arrived in Formula One a long time before he actually did because the press had written and talked about him for ages and some of us, including myself, we didn't know him.”

"I knew he had done well in America, and that's it, but doing well in America does not give any guarantee you do well here. He was also being very optimistic about his opportunities, and I didn't agree with his philosophy. But if you see him these days and what he is saying now compared to what he used to say, it is very different. It is why I personally feel much more comfortable with him, and I've actually got to like him because I have found the person behind the shield. I'm now getting on very well with him."