Kyle Busch put the #18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing into victory lane in Atlanta.
The victory was the first for a foreign manufacturer in NASCAR's top series since June 13, 1954, when Al Keller drove a Jaguar to Victory Lane at Linden Airport in New Jersey. That day, Jaguars took four of the top six positions.
The manufacturer struggled heavily in 2007, its inaugural year in the Cup Series.
Michael Waltrip Racing was discovered having a fuel additive in the carburetor during qualifying for last year's Daytona 500 and withstood a series of penalties, fines and suspensions. It set the tone for the rest of the season that featured a weekly list of DNQs that anchored the year, headlined by Waltrip. Of the six drivers who raced Toyotas full time last year, they attempted 193 races and missed 84 of them -- Waltrip missed 22 races, and A.J. Allmendinger missed 19.
Could a Toyota championship be far off?
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