Roush predicts how Toyota will destroy them

After all the buildup from Detroit rivals about the Toyota monster crushing NASCAR competition, the season so far has seen quite the opposite, with most Toyota teams struggling just to make the fields. But [Jack] Roush isn’t backing away from his quite vocal worries.

“I’m not going to gloat over what’s happened, or take any glee in it," Roush said, “because it’s hard to start a new program, around new people and new drivers and a new manufacturer. And this year’s hardware issues (like the car of tomorrow) make it triple tough.

I didn’t expect Toyota to be a factor early on. But the comments I’ve made were not based on what I looked for in the first half of 2007, or even all of 2007, but rather 2008, 2009 and beyond will be a very good time for Toyota, if they continue to have the money they now have available to get the people and technologies. Toyota will get it right … and they will put the rest of us in the back, unless NASCAR is vigilant in its effort to protect against unlimited amounts of money coming into this sport and buying everything of value from the existing teams.

If Toyota can do that, there will be an upset the likes of which we have never seen. Right now the good news for the established teams is that the good drivers have all been under contract, and the good crew chiefs and the best crewmen have not been willing to take a chance on an upstart team or a new program. But as time goes on, as the Toyota teams get their legs under them and start to consistently qualify, the more those people who have the talents to make a difference in the programs will be inclined to consider the generous offers they’ve made- offers that will escalate as time goes on." Winston Salem Journal

[Editor's Note: Jack Roush is right and there is nothing he or any other team can do about it. Toyota laid low in the truck series when they first arrived and now they dominate everything. In fact their domination is so great that NASCAR has now forced Toyota to change their truck intake manifold to one that makes less HP to give the other inferior manufacturers a chance. We'll see how well that sits with the Toyota brass and after that happens enough times, Toyota tells NASCAR to go pound sand.]