Kamui Kobayashi will become the latest international star to make his NASCAR debut next month. The recent wave of interest amid Shane van Gisbergen's Chicago win has sparked new discussions at Toyota about how it can best share its motorsports assets ⬇️
“I’m looking more forward to Indianapolis than any other race on the calendar this year – maybe carve out Phoenix,” said Toyota Racing Development USA president David Wilson. “We should have some horses in that race. But it’s going to be great.
“There’s no question it’s put some eyeballs on our sport for the first time in many instances,” Wilson said. “He is a name and a face that is known – obviously in Japan he’s huge, but in Europe because of the penetration of WEC and sportscars he also has a name.“You pair that up with what Shane did at Chicago. Without a doubt there is more interest. Without a doubt, Kamui’s excitement – it’s palpable.
“The philosophy is to give us the autonomy to manage our participation, decide where we should race, how we race, how we manage our assets including drivers. “It has us looking at the stable of drivers we have and seeing if there are some organic potential fits to exchange and trade resources or drivers. That’s pretty cool; that’s pretty exciting.”
The interest in NASCAR can open the door for some of Toyota’s drivers to explore additional career paths – ones they perhaps never considered in the past. “To even be more aggressive, why couldn’t NASCAR be on the consideration set for younger drivers internationally?
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