Reigning Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. will be among a group of drivers conducting a Goodyear Tire test at Michigan International Speedway Tuesday and Wednesday – a test session originally slated for earlier in the month, but postponed due to unfavorable weather conditions.
This week’s test dates were originally given to Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but because the Michigan race weekend is June 8-10 and the Indianapolis race weekend is not until Sept. 7-9, Goodyear reworked the timing.
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“Hopefully this will give us much more representative conditions of what to expect for race time in June (at Michigan),” Goodyear’s Director of Racing Greg Stucker said last week, announcing the change in timing.
Stucker said the company was hopeful to move the Indianapolis tire test to another date in either June or July.
Joining Truex (Furniture Row Racing) are Alex Bowman (Hendrick Motorsports), Brad Keselowski (Team Penske), Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing) and Aric Almirola (Stewart-Haas Racing) — all participating in the test session before the series heads to Talladega Superspeedway for this weekend’s GEICO 500 (Sunday, April 29, 2 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).