Toyota to Cup in 2006 UPDATE:

  • The word on the street in the NASCAR garage over the weekend was that Toyota is now expected to debut its Cup cars at the 2006 Daytona 500 and that NASCAR will let Ford, Dodge and GM have new Cup engine designs for that season. That, however, could give Toyota a significant head start, since Toyota this year is running its Cup engine on the Truck tour.(Winston Salem Journal)(5-24-2004)
    UPDATE: been told that Toyota would not come to Cup [if they do] before 2007 as they have three year contracts with the seven current Truck Series drivers and folks on those teams tell me, there are no plans to break those contracts.(5-26-2004)