 | Hey Toyota Racing Fans,
Denny Hamlin scored his seventh NASCAR® Sprint Cup Series™ (NSCS) victory of the year on Sunday, sweeping the season's races at Virginia's Martinsville Speedway and narrowing Jimmie Johnson's lead to just six points with four races remaining in the 2010 Chase championship. With only four races remaining, Denny Hamlin sits in second place and Kyle Busch sits in fourth 172 behind the point’s leader.
SPEAKING OF KYLE 
The Kyle Busch Foundation and Toyota have joined forces in a unique giveaway in which one lucky race fan will "Win Kyle's Tundra" in a drawing to be held on Monday, Nov. 1. Grand prize is a 2010 Toyota Tundra pickup truck, along with roundtrip airfare for the winner and a guest, free lodging and garage passes to join driver Kyle Busch for the next-to-last NASCAR® weekend of the season at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., Nov. 5-7.
The Kyle Busch Foundation is dedicated to providing essential tools for less fortunate children throughout the country. KBF will concentrate its efforts on assisting organizations in fostering a safe environment for children to live, learn and challenge themselves as well as seeing that day to day needs are met.
Be sure to enter at www.winkylestundra.com
Toyota Racing Weekend Rewind:
DENNY DELIVERED: Denny Hamlin scored his seventh NASCAR® Sprint Cup Series™ (NSCS) victory of the year Sunday at Virginia's Martinsville Speedway, moving to within six points of Jimmie Johnson for the top spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship playoff. Hamlin swept the season’s races at Martinsville Speedway, also winning at the half-mile oval in March.
THREE FOR THREE: This year, Toyota driver Kyle Busch is involved in three championship battles. If the 25-year-old driver manages to win all three, it would be the first time in NASCAR® history one driver has been associated with championships across all three national touring series. Busch is currently in fourth-place after six of the 10 races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship playoff, 172 points behind leader Johnson. The JGR No. 18 Camry is leading the NNS owner's championship standings by 71 points over the Penske Racing No. 22. In addition, in its first season of competition, Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) is in a heated battle with Germain Racing for the NASCAR® Camping World Truck Series owner's championship. KBM currently sits 39 points behind Germain with four races remaining this season.
Coming this weekend for Toyota Racing:
TOYOTA TALLADEGA TRIUMPHS: Alabama's 2.66-mile Talladega Superspeedway has been the site of much success for Camry and Tundra drivers with a total of six NASCAR® wins across the three national touring series -- two NSCS wins in 2008, one NNS victory (2008) and three NCWTS first-place finishes (2007, 2008 and 2009). In 2008, Toyota drivers swept all four NASCAR® races that were held at Talladega. Busch led 12 of the 188 laps in the spring race to earn the first Camry Sprint Cup Series points win at a superspeedway. Former Toyota driver Tony Stewart led the most laps (81 of 117) in the spring Nationwide Series race on his way to victory lane. Stewart was again dominant in the fall NSCS race -- leading the most laps (24 of 190) -- en route to registering Toyota's 10th Cup win of 2008. In the Camping World Truck Series race at the Alabama superspeedway, Bodine has earned two wins (2007 and 2008) while Busch captured the victory in last year’s NCWTS race at Talladega. In NHRA
DIXON CLOSES IN ON TITLE - Larry Dixon will take an 89-point lead into the penultimate round of the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series this weekend at the Las Vegas Nationals. He can clinch his third Top Fuel championship by advancing to the finals in each of the last two races or by scoring any combination of 171 points regardless of what any other competitor does. Dixon took over the series lead at the spring race in Las Vegas and has yet to relinquish it since – winning 10 of the last 16 events since that race. Overall, he has recorded 12 victories this season and leads the series in wins, finals appearances (12), number one qualifiers (eight) and elimination round victories (59).
CRASHING THE COUNTDOWN PARTY – While Cruz Pedregon’s early-season struggles didn’t allow him to qualify for the Countdown playoffs, it hasn’t stopped the two-time Funny Car champ from crashing the party. He’s won two of the last three Countdown events and advanced to the semi-finals in a third. In fact, since the playoffs began at Indy on Labor Day weekend, Pedregon is second in Funny Car points – trailing series points leader Matt Hagan by just 26 points and has scored 72 points more than the number three driver during that span.
WEEKEND RACE SCHEDULE: NASCAR® Sprint Cup Series™ @ Talladega Superspeedway, Sunday, October 31 @ 1:00 PM (ET), ESPN
NASCAR® Camping World Truck Series™ @Talladega Superspeedway, Saturday, October 30 @ 3 PM (ET), SPEED
NHRA Las Vegas Nationals, Sunday, Oct. 31, 9:00 PM ET (ESPN)
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