For the primary time in over a decade, Juan Pablo Montoya will race within the NASCAR Cup Sequence.
Montoya will drive the No. 50 Toyota Camry for 23XI Racing at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) on Sept. 15. The race shall be his first within the Cup Sequence because the 2014 Brickyard 400 and the ultimate begin of the season for 23XI’s part-time third entry.
The No. 50 automotive additionally ran at COTA with Kamui Kobayashi and at Nashville with Corey Heim earlier within the season. Mobil 1 will sponsor Montoya’s automotive simply as they did with Kobayashi and Heim as a part of the corporate’s Fiftieth-anniversary celebration.
Montoya is a former Cup Sequence winner at Watkins Glen, beating Kurt Busch, Marcos Ambrose and AJ Allmendinger for the win within the 2010 Heluva Good! Bitter Cream Dips on the Glen. The win was one in all Montoya’s two Cup Sequence wins, with the opposite coming at Sonoma in 2007.
23XI’s automotive will doubtless be among the best automobiles (if not the very best) Montoya has ever pushed on the Cup Sequence degree. Montoya drove full-time for Chip Ganassi Racing from 2007 to 2013 and whereas he was in a position to win two races and make the Chase as soon as with the staff, mechanical points and middling automobiles in comparison with the competitors doubtless held him again most of the time.
Montoya will take the inexperienced flag with the remainder of the Cup Sequence area at Watkins Glen on Sept. 15. The Go Bowling At The Glen will go inexperienced shortly after 3 p.m. ET on September 15, with protection on USA Community, MRN, the NBC Sports activities App and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
