FORT WORTH, Texas -- Unlike the majority of the NASCAR garage Saturday, Juan Montoya didn't mind the rain, in fact, he welcomed the wet stuff.

"I was hoping for rain to be 100 percent [to be] honest with you," he said.

In fact, he instructed his bus driver to go out and buy some new movies.

"I was well prepared," Montoya said. "I've got a ton of movies to watch. ... I have Criminal Minds, the TV series and I picked like three or four different movies. So I'll be entertained, believe me."

Entertainment is serious business for the No. 42 Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver but he was happy for the rain because he hopes to have created an advantage on the field for Sunday's Samsung Mobile 500.

The team spent nearly all of Friday's practice session -- the only session as Saturday's two practices were rained out -- on race runs and more or less forfeited their qualifying position. He qualified 21st, but Texas Motor Speedway is a big track with plenty of places to pass.

After the race runs, Montoya's team moved the No. 42 to qualifying trim and did one run but didn't feel that comfortable.

"We did a small change and went out again and that was better ...our [qualifying order] draw was terrible. So, we were kind of expecting that. But for [Saturday], I was hoping for rain, a lot of rain. And it's good because we think we've got a decent race car. We actually started way off from where we needed to be. We made some good changes and seemed to gain on the car really fast and I was pretty happy about that. Hopefully it pays off [Sunday]."

Montoya hopes he gains enough to pull him up in points, putting him back in the Chase hunt. So far this season he has posted three finishes outside the top 30 and has three DNFs.

"We're behind on points from where we need to be, but we've got a car capable of the win [Sunday], so that playing into account helps us. Where you look at last year, we needed to finish the races because a good week was 10th place, a bad week was a 15th, where now a good week is a top five. So, that allows you to get away with mistakes and crashes and things, but we're still behind where we need to be. We still need to finish the races and we still need to score pretty big."

Montoya is still searching for that elusive first win on an oval. Not since the Somona road course win in his 2007 rookie season has he won a Cup race, but he has finished second three times in three seasons -- Indianapolis in 2007, Talladega in 2008 and Pocono in 2009. After making the Chase last year for the first time in his three-season career, Montoya ideally could focus on race wins and put less emphasis on counting points.

Still he's unsure of when his first win will come or where it will be.

"I don't know," Montoya said. "Last week there were three cars to win the race, the No. 18 [Kyle Busch], the 48 [Jimmie Johnson] or the 42 [Montoya] and none of the three won the race. So, somebody told me that, it's kind of weird but, the last few races that there have been cautions, never the car that has been leading has won the race."

At Phoenix, Montoya drove to a fifth-place finish after racing in or near the top-five the entire evening. The finish was his second top-five of the season and third top-10.

Sunday marks Montoya's sixth Cup Series start at Texas with his best finish, seventh, coming in this race last year.