Race winner Jack Sprague helped Toyota take four of the top-five spots in Friday night's Craftsman Truck Series event. Dave Blaney drove his Camry to a second-place finish Saturday in the carmaker's debut on the Busch circuit. NASCAR's newest manufacturer enjoyed quite a week at Daytona International Speedway.
Except for the Nextel Cup Series.
A Speedweeks that began with Toyota's flagship program facing cheating allegations ended Sunday, when Dale Jarrett's 22nd-place finish was the best among the four Camrys that made the Daytona 500 field. Blaney and David Reutimann finished well down the chart after getting caught up in accidents, while Michael Waltrip brought his scandal-plagued car home in 30th.
But afterward, as the crowd filed out of the giant frontstretch grandstand and night settled over the speedway, Toyota executives seemed anything but disappointed.
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