Toyota stealing parts from Roush teams?? (nascar)

brandon27 · Mar 28, 2008

Jack Roush’s feud with Toyota is escalating over a car part he claims was stolen from one of his teams. The multicar owner calls it a case of “intellectual espionage,” but many others think it’s much ado about nothing.

“What’s he doing with stuff just laying around the garage area?” four-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon joked Friday. “If that was a proprietary piece, I’d think that you’d have some tighter grips on it. I think the whole thing is hilarious.”

But Roush isn’t laughing, saying a Toyota team that he declined to name stole a swaybar created specifically for Roush Fenway Racing from one of RFR’s teams at last fall’s race at Dover, Del. He said the team sandblasted the custom paint off of it and tried to have the vendor that created it for RFR duplicate the ends that make it fit.

Roush said after his team found out about it, it learned from a former employee of the Toyota team since hired by Roush that he’d seen the part in the Toyota team’s shop
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this news, wouldnt surprise me one bit if it was true.

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