According to a report by SPEED TV, ex-Formula 1 star and Indy 5000 winner, Juan Pablo Montoya, was very pleased by his first real stock car test at Talladega yesterday. The Columbian ran several laps in a Chip Ganassi racing ARCA spec stock car (above) in prepeartion for a full run at the Nextel Cup next season.

 “I came out of the pits, I went into Three and Four, started listing and said, ‘Ah, let’s just try it’ and I just went full throttle and went through it and went into One pretty fast. They told me [the track is] flat easy, so to try it. I just went for it. It went through it and it felt pretty quick, to be honest. The car really moves around a lot more from what I am used to, but after a while you just get the hang of it. It is a lot of fun, and a lot of technique. I think experience will help a lot in the car knowing when to run high and when to run low. I am getting there, but it is going to take a little bit of time.”

Montoya posted a fastest lap of 186.667mph, good enough for sixth-best among the 31-cars testing.

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