Toyota starting from scratch, building new car
Quote selected text Published April 22nd, 2007 in NASCAR News
Toyota officials knew the company’s first season in Nextel Cup would be tough, but never dreamed it would be this difficult. “We certainly didn’t expect all seven cars to make every race, but we didn’t really think it would be this bad,” said Jim Aust, president of Toyota Racing Development. “Here at Phoenix, we figured we wouldn’t get seven in, but we thought it would be five, not three.”
Before Saturday’s race, Aust said Toyota was working on a project with one of its new teams, Michael Waltrip Racing, to rebuild a car from scratch and try to improve the overall performance. “We’ve been working on this project for about three weeks,” Aust said.
“We took apart the car and weighed every part then put it back together. We’re looking at every bolt. We’ll take the car to the wind tunnel and, once we see we’ve got something better, we’ll get it to all of our teams.” Aust said Toyota Racing Development in California also is working hard on improving the Cup engine. “I think we’ll see some real improvement by Charlotte (in May),” he said.
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Maybe Toyota needs to go to the drawing board and figure out whats wrong with there design. Its still their first year and they seem impatient to Win but its known that you just dont jump in Nascar and become a winner right of the bat. For one thing you have to have the right stups and crewmen that know what they are doing and its going to be hard because toyota has never raced in Nascar at these tracks before. Its going to take time and everyone had better get used to the fact thats it a learnung curve that takes time.Please people give these guys time they have a lot of research and deveolpment to seudy and learn what will work on these cars