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Juan Pablo Montoya to Appear at DUB Tour Display prior to the Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola

Friday July 3, 2009

 

Montoya and Wife Connie to Accept Donation for Formula Smiles, 102JAMZ Personality Ronda Jordan will Emcee Q&A

Daytona Beach, Fla. (July 1, 2009) – Juan Pablo Montoya, driver of the No. 42 Target Chevrolet for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, and wife Connie Montoya are scheduled to appear at the DUB Tour display on the Daytona International Speedway Midway at 4:00 pm ET on Saturday, July 4, 2009. The Montoya’s will be on-hand for a special Q&A session with 102 JAMZ FM personality and mid-day host Ronda Jordan, and to accept a donation on behalf of their charity, Formula Smiles.

“On behalf of more than 5,000 children part of Formula Smiles, we want to thank Daytona International Speedway for their generous donation. They have been a supporter of our foundation since we first started racing here. Formula Smiles, through sports and recreation, complements the academic education of thousands of Colombian children permitting them to have a more integral education, a healthier lifestyle and a brighter future away from drugs and violence. Connie and I are fully committed to our foundation and to the children who are part of it. This is a way to help our country and thank them for all the support they have given me during my career.”

Formula Smiles is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the United States, under status 501c3, by Colombian racecar driver Juan Pablo Montoya and his wife Connie Freydell, which aims to improve, through sports, the quality of life of Colombian children in vulnerable situations.

The Foundation focuses all of its efforts in sports, with the purpose of complementing the basic education these children are entitled to, in order to provide them with a well rounded upbringing and a more promising future. Through sports, children reinforce their classroom lessons; learn essential values that make them better persons, receive motivation to continue in school and learn how to make good use of their free time, staying off the streets where they find drugs and violence.

The DUB® family of companies, including DUB® Publishing, DUB Industries™ and TIS Industries™, is the leading, authoritative voice in the urban automotive lifestyle scene. Their publishing arm was the first in the industry dedicated to covering celebrity-driven vehicles and giving a first-hand look at the expansion of a multi-billion dollar industry that revolves around the vast world of car customization. They are widely recognized as pioneers in the celebrity car culture space as well as what is known as the DUB market. DUB Magazine – The Original Automotive Lifestyle Magazine™, and DUB Magazine’s Custom Auto Show and Concert Tour™ spawned a new era of urban car culture and lifestyle. The DUB® family of companies’ stable of well known brands, including DUB Edition™, Dropstars™ and TIS (Twenty Inches Strong™), are about individualism, unique styling and seeing trends before they happen.

Tickets for the Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola on Saturday night, July 4 start at $40. Tickets are available on your web-enabled phone at mobile.daytonainternationalspeedway.com, online at www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com or by calling 1-800-PITSHOP.

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This report was provided by an outside PR source and posted by Kim DeHaven.

 

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