Only days after he was though to have raced his last grand prix, Juan Pablo Montoya has been offered a chance to make a possible racing return after Ron Denꦗnis confirmed that the Colombian has not yet been released from his McLaren contract and therefore could yet be called back.

Al🐼though Montoya was thought to have stepped down in order to gather experie📖nce before his move to NASCAR in 2007, Dennis suggested that his contract stipulates that he cannot compete elsewhere until he honours the agreement.

As a result though, Montoya couꩲld return to his seat later in the year, with Dennis insisting it is 'more than pos𓄧sible' once the situation had 'cooled off'.

"Juan Pablo is fully contracted through to the end of the year, and if we so choose, he will test and race again, so that is at our option, nobody else's," D🦋ennis clඣaimed in Friday's press conference.

"The appropriate course of action for the team was to let the whole thing cool off and let🐼 him sit and think 🦂about the circumstances that surrounded his involvement in the team until we had a very common objective for the remaining races."

Furthermore, Dennis confirmed that he would not breach Montoya's contract in order for him to start testi🧜ng with the Chip G✅anassi team, despite the links between Mercedes and Dodge through their DaimlerChrysler parent company.

"He is a contracted McLaren driver and it will stay that way until the end of his contract unless there is some other commercial arrang෴ement between ourselves and the Nascar teaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚm or Juan himself."

Test driver Pedro de la Rosa has claimed Montoya'✃s seat in the short-term, with Dennis hinting that the Spaniard will more than likely remain Kimi Raikkonen's team-mate, thus halting rumours that either Gary Paffett or Lewis Hamilton would be in-line for a guest drive later in the year.

"Their programmes (Hamilton and Paffett) are well mapped and their programmes didn't include racing a Grand Prix car this season, so highly unlikely. It's more likely that Pedro will continue in the car but we are a team who decides how the drivers are utilised and those drivers are all contracted to us and we chose to go down the p𝕴ath we've gone down."