NASCAR drivers in Rolex 24 at Daytona

Juan Pablo Montoya, the open-wheel star turned NASCAR rookie last year, was part of the winning team in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the opening race in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car stories.
He will be back for the 2008 race in a car for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates.
Montoya will be teamed with Dario Franchitti, another open-wheel star moving to NASCAR, Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas in the No. 01 TELMEX/Target Daytona Prototype for the 24-hours endurance race Jan. 26-27 at Daytona International Speedway.
Scott Dixon, Dan Wheldon, Salvador Duran and Alex Lloyd will drive the No. 02 Daytona Prototype car for Ganassi.
Pruett, a NASCAR road-racing specialist, and Rojas tested last week at Daytona in preparation for the race next month.
“(Chip’s) stable is just full of a lot of talent on the NASCAR side, on the IRL side, on the Grand-Am side,” Pruett said last week during the test. “For us coming here with this commitment and this organization is going to be nothing less than stellar. We’re going to go for the win.”
Pruett and Rojas spent Dec. 10 and 11 at Daytona fine tuning their Lexus Riley after struggling during the Grand-Am November Test Days at DIS. Rojas crashed the team's car during the Dec. 11 session, hitting a chicane and causing front end damage to the car. Despite the setback, Pruett said he has happy with the team's progress.
“We had a lot of problems at the earlier test,” Pruett said. “We just didn’t get much track time at all. In fact, we only got about a half of a day running. We opted to come back here and it’s been very valuable learning a lot about what the car wants with the new Pirelli tires.”