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12-01-11 Toyota Honored with 2011 NASCAR Marketing Achievement Award
11-30-11 Toyota NASCAR Notes & Quotes Champions Week Nov 2011
11-20-11 HAMLIN TALLIES THREE TOYOTA TOP-10s IN MIAMI
11-20-11 TOYOTA NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) - Post-Race Notes & Quotes - Homestead-Miami Speedway
11-17-11 Toyota NASCAR Notes & Quotes Homestead November 2011
LOGANO WINS TOYOTA ALL-STAR SHOWDOWNThe 225-lap race, hosted by the half-mile Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, Calif., is the biggest race on the short-track calendar. There are no points at stake, but the event’s prestige and bragging rights attract the hottest talent from the NASCAR K&N Pro Series (formerly the NASCAR Camping World Series East and West), plus top racers from Canada and Mexico, to the “Daytona 500 of short-track racing.”
Logano won the All-Star Showdown in 2007 and crossed the line first in ’09, before being penalized for aggressive driving, so his 2010 entry was part fun, part unfinished business before he begins his second year of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition with Joe Gibbs Racing.
In a battle of the teenagers, the 19-year-old Logano, driving the No. 25 Home Depot Toyota Camry entered by Fadden Racing, held off impressive 16-year-old K&N Pro Series debutant Sergio Pena in the opening stages of the race – the pair trading the lead on several occasions.
As the laps counted down, they were joined at the front by defending Showdown champ Matt Kobyluck, but it was Logano who made the most of two late restarts to take the win by just 0.584sec, ahead of Pena.
“That was a tough, but fun race,” said Logano, who led 171 laps in total. “Usually, I’m the guy waiting to pounce when it comes to that final shootout, but this time it was me doing the leading when we started for the final time. I just held on, kept my nerve and kept in front of Sergio. It’s great way to win another one of these, and it’s good heading to Daytona knowing I’ve already got a win in the bag.”
Honorary starter for the night’s main event was Michael Rooker, who played Rowdy Burns in 1990 stock car racing movie Days of Thunder. The movie was shown on the track’s screens before the start and the sold-out crowd might have felt a little bit of déjà vu when the All-Star Showdown got under way, thanks to 15 caution periods (totaling 72 laps), punctuating a tough and dramatic evening of short-track action.
Staying clear of the bumping and banging, JGR development driver Matt DiBenedetto took his Curb Records Toyota Camry to fourth at the chequers, ahead of Andrew Myers’ ProCast Camry in fifth.
Eric Holmes (sixth, NAPA Toyota Camry) and Paulie Harraka (ninth, NAPA Filters Toyota Camry) made it five Toyotas in the top 10.
NASCAR TOYOTA ALL-STAR SHOWDOWN
TOYOTA RESULTS
1. Joey Logano, The Home Depot Toyota Camry, 225 laps
4. Matt DiBenedetto, Curb Records Toyota Camry, 225 laps
5. Andrew Myers, ProCast Toyota Camry, 225 laps
6. Eric Holmes, NAPA Toyota Camry, 225 laps
9. Paulie Harraka, NAPA Filters Toyota, 225 laps
20. Justin Philpott, Taxbrain Toyota Camry, 225 laps
26. Ryan Truex, NAPA Toyota Camry, 205 laps
30. Moses Smith, HASA Pool Products Toyota Camry, 186 laps
38. David Gilliland, Quiksilver Toyota Camry, 99 laps
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