Is the engine that Toyota is running not the exact same specs as all the Chevy and Fords???

It's a newer design. Chevy has their new engine built but it needs to be approved by NASCAR first. Conveniently NASCAR has put that approval process on the back-burner while other (new) manufacturer takes advantage of the power difference.

Not entirely true...they have been dyno testing the Cup cars, but they're not finding the large discrepency in HP numbers in Cup like they did in Nationwide. If it's less than 5 HP, they don't deem that significant.

And,

Toyota's Cup engines have been making (on average) 3 HP more with the regular engines, but they've been down ~4 HP with the restricted engines. The Toyota Nationwide engines were making 15-16 more HP than the rest.

JGR engines are turning more RPM than any of the other Toyota teams, which may very well be the difference. I don't expect JGR to be that much slower at ORP this weekend, unless they sandbag like other teams have done in the past when they sanction a specific manufacturer.

What a crock of you know what... I am about had it with all sports in general. You know for a fact that nascar loves the "9 figure investor" everyone knows that. Almost getting to the point where I dont even like watching races anymore.

There is no need to give the toilets a hp advantage. Even it out and see who can set up and race the best without any advantage.

Maybe the advantage is the driver.

Looks like they still have an advantage somewhere.

Could it be down force? He seams to be able to high or low. Maybe he just likes driving on or past the edge. He sure was jumping on the restarts.

They should start testing Busch for superpowers.

He's found something aND nascar will catch him yet. No one gets thats much faster or better without changing something.

Did you guys ever think he is just getting better as a driver??

I have but I cannot believe he got that much better over winter.

Look at how much better Dale Jr got in one year.

This is after Chicago in 2007


RANK +/- DRIVER POINTS BEHIND STARTS POLES WINS TOP 5 TOP 10 WINNINGS
1 -- Jeff Gordon 2911 Leader 19 7 4 12 17 4,154,310
2 -- Denny Hamlin 2608 -303 19 1 1 7 11 2,900,200
3 -- Matt Kenseth 2565 -346 19 0 1 7 13 3,614,370
4 +1 Jeff Burton 2491 -420 19 0 1 6 10 3,746,700
5 +1 Carl Edwards 2473 -438 19 1 1 5 7 2,384,280
6 +1 Tony Stewart 2429 -482 19 0 1 5 12 3,493,360
7 -3 Jimmie Johnson 2423 -488 19 4 4 9 11 3,959,680
8 +1 Kevin Harvick 2337 -574 19 0 1 4 9 5,158,960
9 -1 Kyle Busch 2314 -597 19 0 1 4 10 2,544,940
10 +1 Clint Bowyer 2281 -630 19 2 0 1 10 2,096,170
11 -1 Martin Truex Jr. 2208 -703 19 1 1 4 7 2,795,260
12 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2151 -760 19 1

He moved to a better team and is working with a better owner and team mates. We need to compare apples to apples. Jr has not had hardly any wins and has not dominated the field like the rat.

Arguably Rowdy has gone to smaller team with less cars and ALOT less funded