Here comes Toyota

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Kyle Busch won the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was the first pole for Toyota this year and the third for the engiune manufacturer since joining the Cup ranks last year.
Ten Toyota drivers qualified for the Las Vegas race, the most Toyotas in any Cup race to date.
Busch also leads the Cup Series standings, another first for Toyota.
"It's just been crazy the way things have been going," said Busch, driver of the No. 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "I'm at a loss for words almost because I've talked about how well we're running, and how great things have been going. Sooner or later you wonder when the fall is going to happen. I'm a pretty good surfer, so as long as this wave is here I'm going to ride it.”
Dave Blaney, driver of the No. 22 Toyota for Bill Davis Racing, won the first pole for Toyota at New Hampshire International Speedway. Michael Waltrip, driver of the No. 55 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing, won the second pole for Toyota at Talladega Superspeedway.
Of the 10 Toyota drivers who qualified, the most surprising had to be Mike Skinner in the No. 27 Toyota for Bill Davis Racing. The car was originally supposed to be driven by Jacques Villeneuve, but he crashed in one of the qualifying races for the Daytona 500. Skinner was supposed to be in the car for the race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, but rain washed out qualifying. This was the first time Skinner was able to qualify the car for a race. He'll start the Vegas race fifth.
"You're in a real unique situation here -- you can't go for it, but you got to go for it," Skinner said. "You're damned if you go for it and damned if you don't in this deal. I don't like to be conservative in qualifying and it's funny because I had to be conservative and go for it all at the same time. It's kind of a strange happening there.”

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