Joe Gibbs Racing Announcing Switch To Toyota Next Week

Joe Gibbs Racing Announcing Switch To Toyota Next Week
Posted on August 31st, 2007 at 8:31 am by Editor

Joe Gibbs Racing has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday and several published reports say the team will announce it has signed a deal to field Toyotas in the Nextel Cup series. The reports, citing unidentified sources, said JGR will end its 16-year relationship with General Motors and give Toyota its first big name team in Cup. Team officials refused comment on the report Thursday but did confirm the news conference and that drivers Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin are expected to be at the announcement.