what was joe gibbs thinking when he said he is moving to Toyota
from Chevrolet and how long do you think it will take him to make Toyota as good as he was with Chevy i mean I'm a huge Chevy fan i got 2 Impala SS and 1 Monte Carlo SS and I'm just wanting to know why he'd give up Free Corvette Z06's with Joe Gibbs Racing Mods and get Camry's
??? what do ya"ll think I"m pretty Sure that Toyota Put A lot of money on the table to get them but i think its a bone head move
2007-10-15 15:31:49 · 20 answers · asked by GO #88 DALE JR 4 in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
Yeah! I wish they'd stayed with Chevy! Hopefully they will be able to compete well with the Toyota. Have an Impala, but I LOVE the Monte Carlo ss! Wanna give it to me?
2007-10-15 15:58:40 · answer #1 · answered by lilAudrey 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
MAN i dont KNOW!!! i could ramble on and on but its already been said here. This WAS my only and favorite team and Tony will always be my driver BUT THIS was the straw that broke the camels back for me this year with all the changes nascar has made this year - ive hung in there with it all but not anymore. And also, im not wasting my sundays watching next year. Its going to KILL me to hear my driver say "yea this TOYota Camry drove well today". Dude you are the MAN owning those beautiful Chevys! Im a die hard Monte Carlo fan and the Impala is a close second. Ive owned two monte's so far, driving an older 95 LS right now but i love her just like an SS. Good to see there is such die hard Chevy fans like us out there!!! I'll follow who's where next year and my team/driver but no more races, too boring, predictable and getting unexciting. Rock on.
2007-10-16 01:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was thinking that GM could have given his team the same amount of support they are giving to RCR and HMS. The director of the racing division for Chevy even said that they probably could have tried harder to keep Gibbs in the Chevies. It is about factory support--Cup level racing is very expensive.
With the CoTs, remember the only difference in the cars will be the engine and the shape of the headlight and tail-light decals.
With JGR engine department building the engines, and with Toyota making the improvements they have toward the end of the season. I think JGR will do just fine. Look for a Daytona 500 win from Tony or Kyle
2007-10-15 19:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by jgrevinjim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fact is the money that toyota brings to the table was the ultimate deciding factor. While toyota is foreign more toyotas are made in the US than the american manufatures produce here these days. This might have been about money but with the talented stable of drivers JGR has and the research and development of toyota this could be a very winning team next year.
2007-10-16 06:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by grneyedmsfan313 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at JGR's track record. He started with Chevy's, switched to Pontiac's, then moved back to Chevy's (within the last ten years). He's due for a change; Toyota seems to be progressing along in other markets. A highly regarded team may transition Toyota forward. Good luck Tony, Denny, and Kyle.
2007-10-15 17:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by Bill K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definately no secret that racing is controlled by money, today. Sad, but true. Toyota probably shelled out a very hefty deal to Gibbs in hopes that he'd be their official 'mega team'. Afterall, Hendrick has Chevrolet, Evernham has Dodge, and Roush-Fenway has Ford. Toyota needed results from top-tier drivers instead of resting all their hopes on Michael Waltrip (no offense Waltrip-fans, but he hasn't been the most prominent of drivers).
I'm not sure the 'growing pains' are out of the Toyota division of racing, yet...so I wouldn't look for something so fantastic as Kyle Bush, Tony Stewart, or Denny Hamlin to shock us all by winning the Daytona 500 next season. Granted, they may get a victoury, it just won't be something -that- stupendous.
And before someone jumps down my throat, I hope they prove me wrong. I like competition! =)
2007-10-15 22:15:00 · answer #6 · answered by Kenisu Ichojari 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you recall Gibbs was the last successful team in Pontiac before they switched to Chevy.... Stewart and Labonte were the only two pontiacs you ever heard about... And with Stewart, Hamlin, and kyle Busch I'm sure they will have just as much success in Toyota as they are having with Chevy......
2007-10-15 18:20:09 · answer #7 · answered by SSU_Scorpion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Joe weighed all hi$ option$ and con$idered every a$pect of the deci$ion he had to make. We may be $ure that he i$ aware of the con$equence$ of thi$ deci$ion.
Seriously, with the CoT, the cars are the same anyway, only the engines are different. Better believe the engineering department has been told that they WILL find a way to get good power out of those Toyotas.
2007-10-15 17:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by napoleon_in_rags 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What was Joe thinking? Do you think JGR is a Top tier Chevy team? Think again. 2nd? Maybe. You know HMS gets the top support. Then RCR or DEI. then JGR. As a Toyota team, they are a Top tier team. They are also sharing information with MWR, which most Chevy teams do not do.
2007-10-15 18:35:06 · answer #9 · answered by Charles 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Toyota wanted a super team, and I"m sure they paid dearly for it..They know with some great drivers like Smoke, Busch and Hamlin surely they can get some wins...Poor Toyota if Smoke doesn't win a race next yr..yikes..
2007-10-15 15:37:51 · answer #10 · answered by Go Team Penske 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋