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Originally Posted by Dean
Toyota wins in Michigan on fuel mileage over the big three, what an metaphor for the auto industry in general.
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Maybe a metaphor of the auto industry in 1973. Unless you're suggesting Toyota won because the other race teams spent too much money building race haulers instead of race cars while paying pensions to Richard Petty, Darryl Waltrip, and Dale Jarrett.
I guess my point is that winning a race on fuel mileage in NASCAR is more "winning a race because you got luck and the cautions worked out to allow you to apply your tiny fuel mileage advantage" rather than "finishing the race with 12 less pit stops because your diesel is so much more efficient" like winning a race on fuel mileage is at Le Mans, for example. I'm never all that impressed by "fuel mileage victories" in NASCAR.
/nascar humbug