Our collection of Toyota news and photos. This section features news from Toyota Racing factory teams as well as news from the automobile industry.
Christopher 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 MoreNASCAR driver Matt DiBenedetto is seeking a new ride for 2020
In 2018, Matt DiBenedetto announced that he would leave Go Fas Racing. At that point, he didn’t have a new ride lined up. He took a leap of faith in search of a better ride.
For most of 2018,
Read MoreNASCAR will evaluate cars on downforce and drag following Texas Motor Speedway
Denny Hamlin drove to to the win on Sunday. NASCAR told the team to take it easy with the celebrations as they planned wind tunnel tests after the race week.
However, Denny Hamlin was not on of those cars that will be evaluated in the wind tunnel.
Read MoreBy far, Toyota is the least popular car in the NASCAR field; JGR talks the importance of the LFR alliance
In 2017, Furniture Row Racing took the NASCAR title. In 2018, the defending NASCAR champions announced they would be closing shop for 2019.
That’s one less Toyota in the field,
Read MoreNASCAR Xfinity Series results from Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia
Today, it’s a double-header at Atlanta Motor Speedway. First up, the NASCAR Xfinity Series takes the green in the Rinnai 250.
View full 2019 Atlanta Xfinity race results below.
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MBM Motorsports becomes the first team to release images of their 2019 Toyota Supra
The Toyota Supra make its debut in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for 2019
Carl and Dee Dee Long founded MBM Motorsports. They later partnered with Derek White, James Carter, and John Jackson. The small NACSAR team now runs their own engine program made possible by Rocky and Tom Smith.
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 MoreMartin Truex Jr and crew chief Cole Pearn will move to Joe Gibbs Racing in the 2019 NASCAR season
It’s the worst kept secret of the year. It’s now been officially released that Martin Truex Jr’s 2019 ride will come out of the Joe Gibbs Racing stable.
Several months ago,
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 MoreFront Row Motorsports placed the winning bid for the majority of the assets
BK Racing has accumulated debt totaling $44,295,884
BK Racing filed for bankruptcy just ahead of the 2018 Daytona 500. Soon after, the courts appointed a trustee, Matthew Smith in charge of team.
Smith has operated BK Racing since the end of March.
Read MoreHow will he get there?
Christopher Bell: “My goal was to drive race cars for a living.”
Christopher Bell has 7 NASCAR Truck Series wins and a series title that he claimed in 2017. For this year, he’s in his first year as a full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series driver.
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 MoreToyota Supra joins NASCAR at the request of it’s designer
Rumors have circulated since March. Now, it’s official. The Toyota Supra is set to make it’s debut in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for the 2019 season.
Tada-san is the chief engineer for the new Toyota Supra. He’s also the man that’s behind the car coming to NASCAR.
Read MoreToyota is rumored to be working on the brand new Toyota Supra for NASCAR in 2019
The Toyota Supra is iconic. From the Fast and the Furious films to the Grand Turismo video games, a certain generation grew up with these cars in focus. Then, they disappeared.
In 2002,
Read MoreRick Hendrick tells Toyota: “I’ll just steal them from ya.”
Toyota has a driver development program that stems from the dirt tracks ranks all the way to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Before Toyota came along, that was all but unheard of.
Beyond driver development, Toyota is highly engaged on the short track racing ranks with event promotion and team sponsorship.
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 MoreThe defending series champion, Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr says the Fords have an unfair advantage and the box is now smaller for Toyota in 2018
The momentum has swapped directions in 2018 as Ford continues to win in NASCAR with 58%
Ford drivers have now won 7 races of the 12 thus far in the 2018 NASCAR season.
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