Text in a concentric circle

Hi
I am trying to create a wheel similar to the image below except I need three segments instead of twelve. I also need a few lines of text for each segment but I'm not sure how best to insert this. I have tried using the 'Polar Grid Tool' and using the 'Type on path' tool, however I'm not able to type within one segment / arc without the text going all the way around the circle.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may go about this? (Hope that's clear!)
Thanks in advance

The three groups ar easy once you think about it.
Back to the polar grid tool.
set it to the diameter you require.
set the radial dividers to 3 and the concentric circles to "0"
draw an ellipse the size you want the inner diameter to be
align the two using the align panel (center vertical and then centered horizontally.
select the inner circle and and the polar grid object and click on theLive paint Bucket tool to turn it into Live Paint Group
you can fill any section with any swatch you want including a fill or stroke of none.
Very easy to do this with the Live Paint group. (Notice I filled the center sections with a fill of none.)
The text is described before if you want to make the text curved and i would think you want to do this with only tree sections because of the amount of curve the sections require.
You make to concentric circles that will reflect the amount of leading between the two text lines you need ad the size you require to properly place it in
the sections.
you position those two concentric circles over the sectioned circle that you made as a live paint group.
Lock the live paint group
with the scissor tool you cut the concentric circles at the sections radial dividers
then turn them into text paths
then pair the two in each section by making them text threads Type>Thread Text>Create
Now type your text for each section. You can do this with two triangles if you want the text straight

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