Toyota and NASCAR

Toyota has been racing in the Craftsman Truck Series since 2004. Now they will be racing in the Nextel Cup Series, starting in 2007. There hasn’t been a foreign nameplate in NASCAR since Jaguar in the 1950s.

Not there are any “American” or “foreign” cars anymore.…

NASCAR goes high tech

Proving that information technology is everywhere, it was announced today that the NASCAR Winston Cup Series will be called the Nextel Cup Series. That’s quite a big jump to go from a tobacco company to a wireless company. Maybe it will mean free wireless networking and/or cell phones at the tracks.…