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Chevrolet will persevere, but so will Gibbs at Toyota
By Dave Rodman
Sep 06, 2007
Joe Gibbs Racing’s announcement Wednesday that it would switch its Nextel Cup manufacturer alliance from General Motors’ Chevrolet brand to Toyota Camrys in 2008 came as no surprise.
But the fact is, the move is the most significant manufacturer swap in nearly two decades of Cup competition.
And proving how much the landscape in racing, like everything else in the world, has changed, the man at the center of the last such earth-moving switch—which occurred 19 years ago when Junior Johnson moved from Chevrolet to Ford for the 1989 season, said there’s a big difference in why he changed and why he feels Gibbs’ organization did.
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