View Full Version : Toyota Claims Victory is Imminent in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup
Kitdy
01-02-2008, 03:49 PM
From Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/02/toyota-vows-victory-in-nascar-this-season/)
After several years of competing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series, Toyota became the first import manufacturer to jump into the big leagues of NASCAR Nextel Cup racing in 2007. The Camry-badged Nextel Cup car started off last season with some high profile rules infractions at the Daytona 500, but actually managed a halfway decent season with two top five and 11 top ten finishes. Given the number of cars that run NASCAR races, that's a better percentage than Toyota's ever managed in Formula One. However, like the F1 team, a Toyota NASCAR entry has yet to score an outright victory.
Toyota's Motorsports VP Jim Aust has declared that this situation will not stand. While the F1 team has been given until 2010 to get its act together, Aust is pretty adamant that the Camry will start winning in 2008 when NASCAR dumps Nextel as its primary sponsor and renames its series the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Now that the company has sorted out its engine for next season's Sprint Cup cars and Joe Gibbs Racing has switched to Toyota, Aust feels that Toyota's time has come. We'll see.
To be frank, I respect Toyota but I don't' much care for their product. This however, does not stop me form cheering for them in NASCAR as I think a Toyota victory would piss off a lot of the more low brow NASCAR fans.
fisetdavid26
01-02-2008, 03:51 PM
Fail.
baddabang
01-02-2008, 04:13 PM
The rednecks will boo them out of town.
Kitdy
01-02-2008, 04:17 PM
Fail.
How so?
The rednecks will boo them out of town.
Look at what they did to Jeff Gordon. I can't imagine what they'd do to Toyota.
fisetdavid26
01-02-2008, 04:22 PM
How so?
youre cheernig for a nascar taem thats how
p.s post qaulity is low sry (booze)
Ferrer
01-03-2008, 12:37 AM
I hope for them that they are at least slitghtly more successful than their F1 team.
NicFromLA
01-03-2008, 07:37 AM
From Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/02/toyota-vows-victory-in-nascar-this-season/)
To be frank, I respect Toyota but I don't' much care for their product. This however, does not stop me form cheering for them in NASCAR as I think a Toyota victory would piss off a lot of the more low brow NASCAR fans.
I agree.
fpv_gtho
01-03-2008, 08:19 AM
Toyota probably need results in NASCAR more than they do in F1, and they'll probably achieve them much easier due in part to the more unpredictable nature of NASCAR racing. In F1, theyre a joke. The 2010 deadline theyve given themself, they think they can achieve the targets they need by doing the same thing theyve done all this time.
fisetdavid26
01-03-2008, 08:31 AM
I'd much prefer to see them invest their time and money in ALMS than NASCAR and F1. The were rather successful with their TS010 in the 80's and early 90's, the GT-One came very close to win at Le Mans and all their xxC-V race cars were rather good performers.
P.S. Sorry for the previous posts.
Ferrer
01-03-2008, 08:51 AM
I'd much prefer to see them invest their time and money in ALMS than NASCAR and F1. The were rather successful with their TS010 in the 80's and early 90's, the GT-One came very close to win at Le Mans and all their xxC-V race cars were rather good performers.
P.S. Sorry for the previous posts.
The only motorsport where they have really been successful is rallying.
Probably the worst move they ever did was leave in 1999.
togos452
01-03-2008, 12:21 PM
Who cares? Every team runs the spec "Car of 40 years ago."
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The only motorsport where they have really been successful is rallying.
Probably the worst move they ever did was leave in 1999.
Leaving and getting kicked out for cheating are 2 slightly different things...
fpv_gtho
01-03-2008, 08:46 PM
I thought they were only banned for 1 year, and didnt bother coming back?
kingofthering
01-04-2008, 12:59 AM
No, they came back with the Corolla WRC, didn't they?
Wouter Melissen
01-04-2008, 01:18 AM
No, they came back with the Corolla WRC, didn't they?
Not after 1999.
Ferrer
01-04-2008, 04:34 AM
Leaving and getting kicked out for cheating are 2 slightly different things...
It was in 1995.
Kitdy
01-04-2008, 02:29 PM
Leaving and getting kicked out for cheating are 2 slightly different things...
What happened?
Ferrer
01-04-2008, 02:59 PM
What happened?
They cheated with turbo restrictors on the works Celicas. They were caught in the Catalunya-Costa Brava and they were banned from the world championship in 1996. They returned in 1997 with the Corolla.
Kitdy
01-04-2008, 03:46 PM
I'd much prefer to see them invest their time and money in ALMS than NASCAR and F1. The were rather successful with their TS010 in the 80's and early 90's, the GT-One came very close to win at Le Mans and all their xxC-V race cars were rather good performers.
P.S. Sorry for the previous posts.
The problem with the ALMS is that it is much less followed than NASCAR and F1. Toyota is much more visible in NASCAR and F1 than they would be in the ALMS or at Le Mans. The only problem is however, that they are not actually winning anything in these two series.
The_Canuck
01-04-2008, 09:00 PM
Yeah so they're more visible in their suckage, maybe if they did well in a series, no matter how small it might get them somewhere....
Kitdy
01-05-2008, 02:55 AM
Yeah so they're more visible in their suckage, maybe if they did well in a series, no matter how small it might get them somewhere....
Ah yes, but now you've forgotten to consider that they actually think that they can win by throwing money at the problem.