Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway was a great night for the Toyota contingent up until the time it wasn’t.
To recap NASCAR’s longest races, Toyotas dominated the evening, leading 306 of 400 laps, but Austin Dillon gambled on fuel mileage and won by being out front for just the final two laps. The six affiliated Toyotas were all fast — some really fast — but none of them won.
And the addition of a fourth stage makes sorting out the good and the bad from the standpoint of Joe Gibbs Racing and Furniture Row Racing, Toyota’s two top-line teams even more complicated.
So was the long night a case of the glass being half full for Toyota or half empty? It’s an interesting question to ponder.
