Toyota has competed at Daytona International Speedway in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series (NCTS) during the past three seasons (2004-06). Although a Toyota has not finished first in NCTS competition at the 2.5-mile superspeedway, Tundras did grab four of the top-five finishing positions in last year's NCTS event at Daytona. In three seasons at Daytona, Tundra drivers have earned a total of six top-five finishes and nine top-tens.

In 2006, Todd Bodine earned the NCTS driver's title behind the wheel of the No. 30 Lumber Liquidators Tundra and led the way for Toyota to earn its first NASCAR manufacturer's championship. That same year, Toyota Tundra drivers had 12 wins and 14 poles, and seven Tundra racers ended the year among the top-10 in the final championship point standings.

"We were pretty happy with our Tundra at the Daytona test," says Germain Racing's Todd Bodine. "We expect to be as competitive with our 2007 Tundra as we were last season at Daytona. The biggest adjustment we'll have to make is to the new tire, it's a lot different than what we ran there before. Last year, it was a pretty exciting season opener at Daytona. I had a new teammate, Ted Musgrave, and we found that we could work pretty good together. If there was another lap of racing last year, we might have given the Germains and Toyota a one-two Daytona finish."

"We're really looking forward to this year because we had a great 2006 season and came pretty close to winning the championship," says Johnny Benson, driver of the No. 23 Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Tundra. "My truck was real loose in testing at Daytona and we worked really hard to tighten it up. A lot of the trucks in Daytona testing were real free because if you got underneath someone, they looked like they were getting ready to spin out. I don't think we had that quite as much last year, but that's just something everyone has to figure out."

Toyota is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the U.S. in 2007. Toyota and its dealers employ about 150,000 workers in the U.S. Toyota operates 10 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and builds approximately half the vehicles it sells here.