JBR Racing Toyotas Next Year - Duh! Didn't See That Coming

Published: September 5, 2007, 11:10 pm

Tags: tony stewart, joe gibbs racing, jgr, hall of fame racing, jd gibbs, jj yeley, toyota, kyle busch, nextel, ikea, denny hamlin, nascar

Quite possibly the worst kept secret over the last month or so is the fact that JGR would be racing Toyotas next year and despite the best efforts of the foot-in-mouth-red-headed-step-child Kyle Busch of letting the world know about JGR and Toyota, JGR was still adimate that they had not inked a deal with Toyota for next year - until today's announcement that is.It is now official, Toyota will be the car of Joe Gibbs Racing and their drivers, Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, and Kyle Busch along with the JGR satellite team of Hall of Fame Racing with JJ Yeley as their driver.How do you feel about this? To be honest with you, I'm not as upset about it as I thought I would be. This move by JGR makes sense, but if I were Tony Stewart I would be driving even harder to win my third Championship right now because I don't think he'll be able to win one with Toyota for about 2 - 3 years. I could be wrong here, but even with heavy weight JGR backing Toyota there are still things that need to be

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