Take a detailed look inside of the Columbus, Indiana dirt racing operation
Keith Kunz Motorsports is a powerhouse dirt midget operation. The dirt racing team has backing from Toyota Racing Development and acts as a stepping stone into the NASCAR world for up and coming talent.
View the Keith Kunz Motorsports shop tour video below.
Read MoreThis isn’t your typical UPS truck as it comes fitted with a Toyota Racing Development engine
Here we have a brown 1990 UPS Truck for sale. This particular brown truck comes fitted with a Toyota Racing Development engine!
View the UPS truck listing, commercials and photos below.
The truck was built by Mike Ryan in 2006.
Read MoreChristopher Bell will drive for Leavine Family Racing in 2020; Amplified Joe Gibbs Racing alliance
The Toyota Racing Development team has a pipeline issue. Too many good drivers sit in the development portions of the camp.
Meanwhile, at the top, the seats are filled. Erik Jones recently signed a contact extension which confirmed a lack of an opening at Joe Gibbs Racing.
Read MoreChristopher Bell helped install the finishing touches on the tornado repair of his hometown dirt track
Christopher Bell turned turned his very first laps in a race car around I-44 Riverside Speedway. The track is a 1/5-mile dirt track that sits just outside of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
In 2013,
Read MoreJoe Gibbs shares a story of NASCAR impacting the President of Toyota
Toyota joined NASCAR in 2000. By year two, they were championship contenders. They won their first championship in the Goody’s Dash Series back in 2003.
They then moved on to the NASCAR Truck Series were they picked up their first win as a manufacture with Kyle Busch in 2004.
Read MoreLeavine Family Racing will make the switch to Toyota
Previously, Matt DiBenedetto announced that he would leave Go Fas Racing. At that time, he didn’t have a ride for 2019. Instead, he was taking a leap of faith and hoping for the best.
Today, it was announced that Matt DiBenedetto will drive the #95 for Leavine Family Racing in 2019.
Read MoreThe winner will be entered to run in a Keith Kunz midget at the 2018 Chili Bowl Nationals
More than 100 racers are scheduled to compete in the Keith Kunz Motorsports Giveback Classic Presented by TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development) at North Carolina’s Millbridge Speedway in October
With three months remaining until the two-day event,
Read MoreTRD President: “It started with Toyota just wanting to grow our presence in grassroots racing. I love midget racing.”
Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell and Rico Abreu all started their climb from the Keith Kunz Motorsports platform. From dirt midget racing to NASCAR, Toyota Racing Development has a clear ladder to the top level of stock car racing.
Read MoreKeith Kunz and TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development) announced today that TRD will serve as the presenting partner of the Keith Kunz Motorsports (KKM) Giveback Classic at Millbridge Speedway on Wednesday, October 31
Chili Bowl Nationals ride up for grabs in the Keith Kunz Give Back Classic at Millbridge
The KKM Giveback Classic is a unique race event open to non-national series drivers of outlaw karts and the winner of the main event will get the ultimate prize for a midget car driver – a ride in a KKM-prepared,
Read MoreToyota development drivers: Is there room for them at the end of the tunnel?
Toyota Racing Development extends well beyond the NASCAR level. Their organization selects standouts as far down the ladder as the late model level. Those drivers are currently in training.
“Toyota plays a bigger role on driver development.
Read MoreBrad Keselowski on Toyota: “I don’t think anyone really ever had a shot this year the second that thing got put on the race track”
Toyota finished 1st and 2nd. But, that’s sort of been the theme of the 2017 season. At least the second half of the season.
At the same time,
Read MoreKyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Daniel Suárez and Martin Truex Jr built custom Toyota Camry’s
The customized Toyota Camry’s have been talked about for months. Yesterday, they were revealed.
The covers were removed at the SEMA show. The show is hosted in Las Vegas, NV. It’s billed as the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world.
Read MoreKenny Wallace Toyota sponsorship extended for 2 more years
Here’s what Toyota does that many other auto makers do not, they sponsor dirt racing. They are the primary sponsor for Kenny Wallace’s dirt modified. They are the one’s responsible for sending Kenny Wallace to a dirt track near you.
“I’m very grateful,”
Read MoreRicky Craven: “There’s no way one car can be two or 3 tenths faster. But they are.”
Denny Hamlin has stated that the advantage the Toyota’s had, is gone. That statement would appear to be a stark contrast from the recent NASCAR results sheet.
10 of the last 13 NASCAR races have been won by a Toyota.
Read MoreMatt Kenseth has had other issues in 2017 with the NASCAR ambulance
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Matt Kenseth was made available to the media during NASCAR’s Playoff Media Day:
Q) Has NASCAR taken ownership of the issues from Saturday night?
KENSETH: “Which ones? Just the ambulance one?
NASCAR team orders for the betterment of the organization?
Most of the NASCAR race was dominated by Toyota teammates Martin Truex Jr and Erik Jones. Martin Truex Jr is currently locked into the playoff’s, of course.
Meanwhile, his teammate, rookie driver Erik Jones sits 16th in the driver standings.
Read MoreToyota Racing driver Martin Truex Jr and NASCAR address Toyota sandbagging claim
There was a lot of discussion about the possibility of some sandbagging from Toyota Racing teams. That conversation was sparked by the Michigan International Speedway polesitter Brad Keselowski.
Brad Keselowski stated, “About this time every year NASCAR takes all the cars to kind of check to make sure that the competitive balance is where they want it to be,
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