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ORIGINAL: http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?...=tsn&type=lgns
Toyota will support eight Nextel Cup teams when its cars make their debuts in 2007, but none of them is likely to be from Ganassi Racing, which all along figured to be part of the Toyota contingent.
Toyota Racing Development will support four Penske Racing squads and two each from Bill Davis Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. Davis and Waltrip will be partners in 2006, then turn their attention to Toyota. ...
Toyota will support eight Nextel Cup teams when its cars make their debuts in 2007, but none of them is likely to be from Ganassi Racing, which all along figured to be part of the Toyota contingent.
Toyota Racing Development will support four Penske Racing squads and two each from Bill Davis Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. Davis and Waltrip will be partners in 2006, then turn their attention to Toyota. ...
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Its all about the money. I see it as Toyota trying to push their products more. Its healthy advertising but it still won't convince me to by a Camry! But all the same here's what Jack Roush thinks...
Roush takes issue with Toyota in NASCAR
By Chris Jenkins, USA TODAY
Toyota is entering NASCAR next season. Jack Roush isn't happy. "I really don't want to be seen as a guy that has laid himself down on the tracks and said we shouldn't have Japanese cars in stock-car racing," Roush says. "I don't want to be that guy. But I do hope that NASCAR and that the fans and everybody that's involved will take stock of what's good for our economy in their purchases of consumer goods."
Toyota's Indiana-built Tundra will compete in NASCAR's truck series next season.
Toyota
Toyota will field teams in the developmental series that races replica pickup trucks and is roughly equivalent to Class AA minor league baseball. Eventually, Toyota is expected to move up to NASCAR's top series. A Jaguar won a NASCAR-sanctioned race in 1954, but today's rulebook specifies American-made vehicles. Toyota will race replicas of the Tundra pickups it builds in Princeton, Ind.
Roush helped develop Ford and Chrysler passenger cars in the 1960s. His racing team has a longstanding financial relationship with Ford, and his engineering company does work for Ford and other domestic automakers. And while Roush Industries also does work for Japan's Nissan brand, Roush says Americans shouldn't buy Japanese cars.
"When we're faced with the prospect of having somebody come into our world, and strip our economy of its essence, and go convey that for interests that are abroad, then we're not doing the right things for our country," Roush says. "If we're forced, based on the fact that we can't be competitive or that their consumers won't buy as many things from our manufacturers and our workers as we buy from theirs, well, then there's a train wreck coming."
From a racing standpoint, Roush worries that Toyota will spend so much money on its trucks series teams that Ford, and Roush's Ford-backed truck teams, will have to abandon the series. Roush uses the trucks, which essentially are Winston Cup cars with different bodies, to develop young drivers. "We're sitting with Ford right now trying to decide if we're going to race in the trucks series next year," Roush says.
In response, Toyota vice president of motor sports Jim Aust issued a statement outlining Toyota's commitment to "creating new jobs and economic benefit" in North America.
"Jack Roush is a respected and formidable NASCAR competitor, but it appears he has been misinformed about Toyota's positive business impact in the U.S. and our approach to the Craftsman Truck Series," Aust said.
Aust said approximately two out of every three Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold in North America are built here.
As for racing, Aust said, "Toyota's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series program won't lavish individual factory teams with big dollar contracts."
NASCAR Chief Operating Officer George Pyne says automakers are free to provide financial support to teams. "This isn't about wealth distribution and socialism," Pyne says. "This is about the best team winning and being open to all."
By Chris Jenkins, USA TODAY
Toyota is entering NASCAR next season. Jack Roush isn't happy. "I really don't want to be seen as a guy that has laid himself down on the tracks and said we shouldn't have Japanese cars in stock-car racing," Roush says. "I don't want to be that guy. But I do hope that NASCAR and that the fans and everybody that's involved will take stock of what's good for our economy in their purchases of consumer goods."
Toyota's Indiana-built Tundra will compete in NASCAR's truck series next season.
Toyota
Toyota will field teams in the developmental series that races replica pickup trucks and is roughly equivalent to Class AA minor league baseball. Eventually, Toyota is expected to move up to NASCAR's top series. A Jaguar won a NASCAR-sanctioned race in 1954, but today's rulebook specifies American-made vehicles. Toyota will race replicas of the Tundra pickups it builds in Princeton, Ind.
Roush helped develop Ford and Chrysler passenger cars in the 1960s. His racing team has a longstanding financial relationship with Ford, and his engineering company does work for Ford and other domestic automakers. And while Roush Industries also does work for Japan's Nissan brand, Roush says Americans shouldn't buy Japanese cars.
"When we're faced with the prospect of having somebody come into our world, and strip our economy of its essence, and go convey that for interests that are abroad, then we're not doing the right things for our country," Roush says. "If we're forced, based on the fact that we can't be competitive or that their consumers won't buy as many things from our manufacturers and our workers as we buy from theirs, well, then there's a train wreck coming."
From a racing standpoint, Roush worries that Toyota will spend so much money on its trucks series teams that Ford, and Roush's Ford-backed truck teams, will have to abandon the series. Roush uses the trucks, which essentially are Winston Cup cars with different bodies, to develop young drivers. "We're sitting with Ford right now trying to decide if we're going to race in the trucks series next year," Roush says.
In response, Toyota vice president of motor sports Jim Aust issued a statement outlining Toyota's commitment to "creating new jobs and economic benefit" in North America.
"Jack Roush is a respected and formidable NASCAR competitor, but it appears he has been misinformed about Toyota's positive business impact in the U.S. and our approach to the Craftsman Truck Series," Aust said.
Aust said approximately two out of every three Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold in North America are built here.
As for racing, Aust said, "Toyota's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series program won't lavish individual factory teams with big dollar contracts."
NASCAR Chief Operating Officer George Pyne says automakers are free to provide financial support to teams. "This isn't about wealth distribution and socialism," Pyne says. "This is about the best team winning and being open to all."
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I found this at www.jayski.com
Updated news in bold
Updated news in bold
ORIGINAL: http://www.jayski.com/teams/toyota.htm
Toyota to Cup in 2007? 8 teams? UPDATE: Toyota will support eight Nextel Cup teams when its cars make their debuts in 2007, but none of them is likely to be from Ganassi Racing, which all along figured to be part of the Toyota contingent. Toyota Racing Development will support four Penske Racing squads and two each from Bill Davis Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. Davis and Waltrip will be partners in 2006, then turn their attention to Toyota.(Sporting News)(10-3-2005)
UPDATE: however, as was reported in the past and reinterated today.....Walter Czarnecki, vice chairman of Penske Racing, says Penske Racing's contract with Dodge extends beyond 2007.(10-3-2005)
Toyota to Cup in 2007? 8 teams? UPDATE: Toyota will support eight Nextel Cup teams when its cars make their debuts in 2007, but none of them is likely to be from Ganassi Racing, which all along figured to be part of the Toyota contingent. Toyota Racing Development will support four Penske Racing squads and two each from Bill Davis Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing. Davis and Waltrip will be partners in 2006, then turn their attention to Toyota.(Sporting News)(10-3-2005)
UPDATE: however, as was reported in the past and reinterated today.....Walter Czarnecki, vice chairman of Penske Racing, says Penske Racing's contract with Dodge extends beyond 2007.(10-3-2005)
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I am sure Waltrip is jumping to them in hopes of ever having the chance to have a shot at some sort of championship and to get away from having to do those stupid *** NAPA commercials. Of course check who is doing them with him, Dale Jr. Makes both of them look like total dipsh*ts...
And it looked to me like the Chargers were doing pretty good at Talledega before all the damn wrecks.
And it looked to me like the Chargers were doing pretty good at Talledega before all the damn wrecks.
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