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David Stremme, a driver for Chip Ganassi Racing, was part of the Goodyear tire test at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. He will have a new teammate next year, Juan Pablo Montoya, a former Indy 500 winner, CART champion and Formula One driver from Columbia who will be moving over to NASCAR.
Stremme said his team will be using some of the information to prepare Montoya for his ARCA race at Talladega in October.
"I know they are talking within the company of Juan Pablo making his ARCA start here and trying to get some speedway experience and other stuff," Stremme said. "So we are gathering data for that along with the Cup team. But there is not a lot of data to grab, it’s pretty smooth."
Stremme's reference to Montoya sparked the interest of Ryan Newman, who was also taking part in the test for his team, Penske Racing South.
“Is his name Juan Pablo, or Juan?� Newman asked Stremme.
“He told me Juan Montoya," Stremme said. "Somebody called him Juan Pablo, so . . . “
“I don’t want to aggravate him at the first race in Daytona and start calling him JP," Newman said.

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