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Timeline: Toyota's 100 NASCAR Cup wins

Note: David Reutimann – 2 wins is from Zephyrhills and a racing family
since the 1950's

Lead Image by Matt Thacker/LAT, all others courtesy of Toyota Racing


Kyle Busch's victory in today's Overton's 400 at Pocono (pictured above) was the 100th for Toyota in NASCAR Cup Series competition. Here's a look at the manufacturer's path to the century mark:
2007
Toyota enters Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series competition and goes winless in its debut season.
2008
March: Camry driver Kyle Busch captures Toyota's first Cup points win with a victory at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 2008.
Camry drivers combine to win 10 victories in Toyota's first winning Cup season, including triumphs by Kyle Busch (eight wins), Denny Hamlin (one) and Tony Stewart (one).
2009
May: Toyota's David Reutimann uses strategy to take first before rain ends the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway to give a TRD (Toyota Racing Development) engine its first win in Cup competition in May 2009.
Camry drivers combine to take 11 checkered flags in Cup competition, including triumphs by Kyle Busch (four wins), Denny Hamlin (four) David Reutimann (one), Joey Logano (one) and Brian Vickers (one). Toyota drivers have 21 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2009.
2010
May: Denny Hamlin claims the Camry's 25th Cup victory at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway in May 2010.
August: Toyota's Kyle Busch sweeps all three NASCAR national series races – Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series – at Tennessee's Bristol Motor Speedway to become the first NASCAR driver to sweep three national series races in the same race weekend in August 2010.
Camry drivers combine to win 12 Cup Series races with victories by Denny Hamlin (eight wins), Kyle Busch (three) and David Reutimann (one). Toyota drivers have 33 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2010.
2011
Camry drivers total six Cup race wins with victories by Kyle Busch (four triumphs), Denny Hamlin (one) and Kasey Kahne (one). Toyota drivers have 39 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2011.
2012
Camry drivers tally 10 wins in Cup events, including victory lane visits by Denny Hamlin (five wins) Clint Bowyer (three), Kyle Busch (one) and Joey Logano (one). Toyota drivers have 49 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2012.
2013
March: Camry driver Matt Kenseth records Toyota's 50th Cup win with first place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2013. The victory is the first victory for Kenseth since joining Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) prior to the 2013 season.
June: Martin Truex Jr. captures his first victory in a Toyota Camry in a Toyota-sponsored event, the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at California's Sonoma Raceway, in June 2013.
Camry drivers total 14 Cup race wins – a new season high for Toyota – led by JGR newcomer Matt Kenseth with seven victories. Kyle Busch tallies four wins for Toyota, while Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Brian Vickers each win one race. Toyota drivers have 63 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2013.
2014
Camry drivers record two Cup wins – a victory by Kyle Busch at California's Auto Club Speedway in March and a win by Denny Hamlin at Talladega Superspeedway in May 2014. Toyota drivers have 65 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2014.

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2015
May:

A victory by Carl Edwards in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway to begin a streak of seven-straight wins by Toyota drivers in NASCAR's 'Crown Jewel' events.
The streak includes: two wins in the Coca-Cola 600 (Edwards 2015, Martin Truex Jr. 2016); back-to-back Brickyard 400 wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Kyle Busch 2015, Busch 2016); consecutive Southern 500 wins at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway (Edwards 2015 above), Truex 2016); and Toyota's first Daytona 500 win in 2016 (Denny Hamlin).
July: Kyle Busch captures his and Toyota's first triumph in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July 2015. Busch will go on to win again at Indianapolis in 2016.
September: Camry driver Carl Edwards turns South Carolina's Darlington Raceway into 'Carlington' as he records the Camrys 75th Cup Series victory in September 2015. The 'Crown Jewel' victory is perhaps the biggest win of Edwards' 13-year, 28-win NASCAR Cup career.
November: Kyle Busch wins the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway to win his and Toyota's first Cup driver's championship.
Camry drivers tie their best Cup year with 14 victories, paced by Kyle Busch with seven victories en route the Cup Series driver's championship. Matt Kenseth records five victories, while Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin win two races each. Toyota drivers have 79 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2015.
2016
February: Denny Hamlin wins the Daytona 500 in his Toyota Camry, marking the first victory for both Hamlin and Toyota in 'The Great American Race.'
TRD president David Wilson addresses the media after the milestone triumph and says, "This is the greatest race in America. For our company to have won it makes it that special. I think most of you have heard the reason that we came into the sport was to connect with the American fans, to talk about how we build every Camry in America, [how] Camry was named the most American made car. So I still remember what resonated my first time here in 2007 – this moniker, 'The Great American Race.' As we were looking at why we should come into NASCAR, that was a big part of it – to have a shot at winning 'The Great American Race,' [and] to be able to talk to the incredible, powerful fan base that NASCAR has. How do you quantify the value? It's truly stunning and special."
May: Camry driver Martin Truex Jr. dominated the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, one of NASCAR's four 'Crown Jewel' events, by leading the most miles in a single race in NASCAR history – 588 miles of the 600-mile event (392 laps of 400) – in the May 2016 race.
September: Martin Truex Jr. guides his Camry to victory lane at South Carolina's Darlington Raceway, marking Toyota's seventh-straight victory in NASCAR's four 'Crown Jewel' events. The win streak began with Carl Edwards's victory in the 2015 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and continued through: Kyle Busch's and Toyota's first Brickyard 400 win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July 2015; Edwards' win at Darlington in September 2015; Denny Hamlin and Toyota's first Daytona 500 in February 2016; Truex's dominant Coca-Cola 600 win in May 2016; and Busch's repeat win at Indianapolis in July 2016 prior to Truex's Darlington win.
Camry drivers win 16 Cup races – a new season best for Toyota – as the manufacturer wins its first NASCAR Cup Series manufacturer's championship, as well as the manufacturer's titles in the XFINITY and Truck Series to win all three national series manufacturer titles. Kyle Busch (four wins), Martin Truex Jr. (four), Carl Edwards (three), Denny Hamlin (three), and Matt Kenseth (two) all win races for Toyota. Toyota drivers have 95 total Cup wins at the conclusion of 2016.
2017


July: Camry driver Kyle Busch wins the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway to give Toyota its milestone 100th Cup victory in July 2017. Toyota's 100th Cup victory comes in Toyota's 10th anniversary season in the Cup Series – approximately 10 and a half months after Toyota entered Cup competition with the Camry in 2007.

With five Cup wins in 2017, Toyota drivers now have 100 combined Cup victories, including wins by Martin Truex Jr., Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch this year. The 11 drivers who have combined for 100 Toyota Cup triumphs are:

• Kyle Busch – 35 wins
• Denny Hamlin – 27 wins
• Matt Kenseth – 14 wins
• Martin Truex Jr. – 8 wins
• Carl Edwards – 5 wins
• Clint Bowyer – 3 wins
• Joey Logano – 2 wins
• David Reutimann – 2 wins
• Brian Vickers – 2 wins
• Kasey Kane – 1 win
• Tony Stewart – 1 win