Johnny Benson is testing the #46 Wyler Racing Toyota COT [Car of Tomorrow/Today] at Richmond International Raceway, April 3-4th. Wyler Racing fields a Toyota in the Truck Series for Jack Sprague and hopes to expand to a 2-truck operation sometime this season. The plan is to run Benson at the May 5th Nextel Cup race at Richmond if the test goes well and could run some other COT races.(4-3-2007) UPDATE: “Johnny right now is strictly our test driver,” team president David Wyler said Tuesday afternoon. “He drove our COT down at Homestead this past year. [Team manager] Tony [Furr] is real comfortable with the feedback Johnny gave him at Homestead, so that’s why we’re bringing him here.” Wyler Racing currently fields a truck for Jack Sprague. Benson also drives for Toyota in trucks as part of the Bill Davis Racing stable. “There’s a lot of guys in the Toyota camp that would be a possibility [as a driver],” Wyler said. “We haven’t really focused on that. yet. Until we focus on our debut, then we’ll make that determination.” That debut date is still to be determined. “We haven’t determined when our [debut] is going to be,” Wyler said. “This is one of the steps to prepare us. We’ll know a lot more come tomorrow evening. Our main focus is running competitive. “We could go out there and run the next COT race, but I’m not going to do that unless we can be competitive. Until we get to that point, we’ll continue to test.”(SceneDaily.com)(4-4-2007)
