With Toyota poised to enter NASCAR's Nextel Cup series this season, Ford team owner Jack Roush is revving up the combative rhetoric.
Roush, the loudest critic of NASCAR's decision to allow the Japanese automaker to enter the Nextel Cup series this season, said he's "preparing myself for siege" on the track and in the boardroom this year.
"I expect to hand Toyota their head over the short term," Roush said on Wednesday during NASCAR's preseason media tour.
Roush, who has said in the past that Americans shouldn't buy foreign cars because it hurts the economy, believes that Toyota's entry will hurt NASCAR because the automaker will outspend teams affiliated with domestic automakers.
But he's ready for a fight.
"Nobody's frightened," Roush said. "We're going to go to war with them, and they should give us their best shot."
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