Anyway, since the Nationwide series uses the old car, I guess all bets are off. Toyota has dominated NASCAR’s secondary series to the point (14 wins in 21 races) that the sanctioning body felt a change was necessary. Some of those races haven’t even been competitive, but what else is new? Joe Gibbs Toyotas have dominated the series, but Toyota has had a clear advantage, so NASCAR did the deal. They, without mentioning Toyota by name, at least in their official announcement, restricted the engine Toyota was using. Was it a good move or a bad move? I’ll leave that up to your judgment.

Never mind that Chevrolets have dominated this series for as long as I can remember. Sure, Carl Edwards and a couple of other Ford guys have had their moments, but year in and year out, it was a good bet that a Chevy was going to win most of the races and the championship in the Nationwide, nee Busch series. The trouble this time was simply the numbers they were getting when looking at horsepower. Toyota had a big advantage because the engine was new—newer than what Ford, Dodge, and Chrysler was running this year. Toyota’s brass cried, saying that the decision would reach over into the Sprint Cup garage because Sprint Cup teams would have to spend more time on their Nationwide series cars. Maybe so, but wasn’t the Nationwide Series designed to be a minor league to the Sprint Cup series anyway? Oh yeah. I forgot. It isn’t that anymore. Never mind.