Toyota To Make A BIG Splash

[kat2220]

Big Plans For Toyota
In case anyone was wondering, Toyota is approaching its impending entrance into the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series the way it approaches everything — big. The automaker is already making its presence felt at several racetracks. At Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, Toyota has replaced Chevrolet as the track’s official car. And at Infineon Raceway in Northern California, a track that, like LMS, is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc., Toyota is replacing Dodge as the co-sponsor of the track’s annual Nextel Cup race, which for the next four years will be known as the Toyota/Save Mart 350.

Toyota will host a comprehensive, interactive display for race fans during the event, which next year will be conducted June 22-24. Toyota will also serve as title sponsor of the raceway’s annual Nextel Cup Series preview show on Fox Sports Net Bay Area. The 30-minute special, which will air a minimum of six times during the month of June, has been nominated for a sports Emmy award in past years. And according to a report in USA Today, the automaker is planning to build an engineering facility for its Nextel Cup teams on an 89-acre parcel near Salisbury, N.C., midway between Charlotte and Winston-Salem.(SPEED TV)

 

[vanzetti]

Anyone know (or have any guesses) if this will/could affect the 48 car? Seems wierd to have a Lowes Chevy when the 'official' car of Lowes MS is Toyota...

 

[Guido]

Anyone know (or have any guesses) if this will/could affect the 48 car? Seems wierd to have a Lowes Chevy when the 'official' car of Lowes MS is Toyota...

Shouldn't affect them at all.

You just won't see a Chevy doing a parade lap at LMS.

 

[Magnethead]

89 acres..

thats more than an engineering facility. That's like, a enineering facility, a windtunnel, and a test track, all in one place...

3,876,840 square feet...

 

[Kyle48]

Anyone know (or have any guesses) if this will/could affect the 48 car? Seems wierd to have a Lowes Chevy when the 'official' car of Lowes MS is Toyota...

Yeah - it mainly means the track's emergency trucks, the pace car(s), and probably the driver introduction trucks will all be Toyota. The volunteer EMT's and firefighters will still drive whatever their department sends them with.

No, Hendrick isn't going to Toyota, if that's where you were going. If that were to happen it'd be Chevy's swan song in NASCAR probably.

- k y l e

 

[Clutch]

Big Plans For Toyota
In case anyone was wondering, Toyota is approaching its impending entrance into the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series the way it approaches everything — big. The automaker is already making its presence felt at several racetracks. At Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, Toyota has replaced Chevrolet as the track’s official car. And at Infineon Raceway in Northern California, a track that, like LMS, is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc., Toyota is replacing Dodge as the co-sponsor of the track’s annual Nextel Cup race, which for the next four years will be known as the Toyota/Save Mart 350.

Toyota will host a comprehensive, interactive display for race fans during the event, which next year will be conducted June 22-24. Toyota will also serve as title sponsor of the raceway’s annual Nextel Cup Series preview show on Fox Sports Net Bay Area. The 30-minute special, which will air a minimum of six times during the month of June, has been nominated for a sports Emmy award in past years. And according to a report in USA Today, the automaker is planning to build an engineering facility for its Nextel Cup teams on an 89-acre parcel near Salisbury, N.C., midway between Charlotte and Winston-Salem.(SPEED TV)

Hi Kat, hope you are doin well up there .......you been watchin this economic downturn and the crisis that is happening in Nascar?

Seems crazy that in such a short time it is possible that ONLY Toyota would still be able to field cars without a bailout from Congress. Oh how it must be hard for those good ol boys who hated and protested the fact that Toyota was coming to Nascar ........Its a business.....period.

Anyhow Kat I guess you'll be seeing one heck of a birthday party up there on the 25th!

Have a good one, and take care

Clutch

 

[Drew]

That's smart of them building that facility in N.C..
Toyota Racing Development is headquartered in Los Angeles....Teams like Red Bull and Waltrip Rely heavily on TRD help, so now this should make it more convenient for those guys.

 

[Mopardh9]

Big Plans For Toyota
In case anyone was wondering, Toyota is approaching its impending entrance into the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series the way it approaches everything — big. The automaker is already making its presence felt at several racetracks. At Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, Toyota has replaced Chevrolet as the track’s official car. And at Infineon Raceway in Northern California, a track that, like LMS, is owned by Speedway Motorsports Inc., Toyota is replacing Dodge as the co-sponsor of the track’s annual Nextel Cup race, which for the next four years will be known as the Toyota/Save Mart 350.

Toyota will host a comprehensive, interactive display for race fans during the event, which next year will be conducted June 22-24. Toyota will also serve as title sponsor of the raceway’s annual Nextel Cup Series preview show on Fox Sports Net Bay Area. The 30-minute special, which will air a minimum of six times during the month of June, has been nominated for a sports Emmy award in past years. And according to a report in USA Today, the automaker is planning to build an engineering facility for its Nextel Cup teams on an 89-acre parcel near Salisbury, N.C., midway between Charlotte and Winston-Salem.(SPEED TV)

It will be just a matter of time before some other foreign automakers start to slither into Nascar, especially if the big three pull out.

 

[Professur]

My money's on Tata.

 

[MRM]

Look at the date of the first post.