After watching the Daytona race, TRD haven’t solved their horsepower problems. During the first nine races Toyota led 1639 laps vs. Chevy 975 & Ford 362, the last five Toyota had 145 vs. Chevy 556 & Ford 172. I feel Chevys will have an edge until TRD can figure it out.
I would not underestimate them based on that race. I'd say they think they have solved the main problem now. Reliability. Plus they are way ahead of the other teams in getting a real HP advantage again as they have direct experience with what breaks first when they push that hard.
the race changed after the sun went down, outside line was good then the bottom was the place to be and Kyle and kenseth seemed to wanna run the high line , Kyle did say he was flat out and going nowhere so I suppose the horsepower wasn't quite there for the gibbs engines be interesting to see how they fair at Indy/Michigan 2 high speed tracks , not that important at Bristol/new Hampshire also with pocano and Watkins glen coming up
TRD engines are fine and within single digit horsepower at the worst which is within the variance of all manufactures and haven't had a failure in 5 races now
u can't base laps led to that or anything, like shaun said much less at daytona.. That's all track dependent and many many other circumstances.
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