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Showing posts with label Toyota Camry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toyota Camry. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Rusty Wallace Racing will be racing Toyota's in '10



Rusty Wallace Racing announced that for the 2010 Nationwide Series season the two car team will be running Toyota Camry's, and that Steve Wallace and Brendan Gaughan will remain the teams drivers.

"We decided that at the end of the day, our goal as a race team is simple: to win races and championships. Thus, we all had to take a long look at which manufacturer partner could best help us reach that goal."

-- Rusty Wallace

With the start of the 2010 season, it would mark the third different Manufacturer Rusty Wallace Racing has had in its five year existence. The team has previously run Dodge Intrepid and Chargers before switching to Chevrolet Impala's for the past two seasons.

"Chevrolet has been a great partner for our team and on behalf of RWR, I'd like to thank Pat Suhy, Shane Martin and everyone at GM Racing for their dedication and support, They were a key in our team's growth the past two seasons."

--Rusty Wallace


Also in 2010 Toyota will be defending its second Manufacturer Championship, and with the help of RWR hopes to capture its third.

Also announced was a separate agreement between Rusty Wallace, who is also the 1989 Cup Series Champion, that will allow him to represent the Toyota brand on a national basis.


"I'm very proud to have the opportunity for the team and I to represent the Toyota brand, Our team's decision on manufacturers involved input from a lot of people within the organization."

-- Rusty Wallace

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Michael Waltrip Racing to stay with Toyota.


Michael Waltrip Racing announced that Toyota has signed a multiyear extension that will keep the team in a Toyota Camry until 2012.

MWR which was formed by Waltrip when Toyota decided to compete in Nascar's top Series three years ago, got their first win this year when David Reutimann won the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May.


"I never would have been a team owner if not for Toyota, There were times when I was proud of that and times when I wondered what I got myself into. But it's been worthwhile and very rewarding for me."

-- Micheal Waltrip
Waltrip, who has raced full time in the No. 55 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry for his own team for the last three years, will drive a part time schedule in 2010. He will be replaced by Martin Truex Jr in the No 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry.

"Michael Waltrip Racing was a part of Toyota's freshman class and they have shown tremendous progress, Michael has always been a tremendous spokesperson for Toyota and continues to impress all of us with the moves he is making to elevate MWR to a championship-caliber organization."

-- Lee White, president of Toyota Racing Development.