Montoya’s first test, Wheldon too

UPDATE We asked Wheldon about NASCAR last weekend at the Michigan IRL race. We asked him if he'd want to drive a NASCAR car, just for fun, to see what it's like. He was up front that he'd been in conversation with NASCAR teams. When we mentioned that there were 100 seats in the major NASCAR series, he looked at me and said <British accent here>, "Yes, but there are only 2 or 3 that you'd want to take."

08/05/06 Team owner Chip Ganassi said former Formula One driver and Champ Car champion Juan Pablo Montoya, once he is contractually free, will make one of his first stock car tests at USA Speedway in Lakeland before a scheduled Nextel Cup campaign in 2007. Montoya is under contract with the McLaren F1 team, though he has been replaced as driver. "If he's made available, I'm sure it'll be at Lakeland," Ganassi said. Ganassi said he also expects to see defending Indy Racing League champion Dan Wheldon test a Nextel Cup car after his season ends Sept. 10. "We haven't formally talked about it, but we both know it's coming, so that's good," he said. St Petersburg Times