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Skinner leads Toyota onslaught
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By Reid Spencer,Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service

LAS VEGAS -- Last year, during a difficult debut season for Toyota, Jim Aust, president and CEO of Toyota Racing Development, expressed the hope that Camrys would come to occupy a fourth of the fields in NASCAR Sprint Cup races.

For Sunday's UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, that's about the size of it, as Toyotas claimed 10 of the 43 starting positions for the third Cup race of the 2008 season.

--(Cont'd From Front Page)-- Mike Skinner, who replaced Jacques Villeneuve in the No. 27 Bill Davis Racing Camry, led Toyota's qualifying charge on Friday with a lap at 181.117 mph, good for the fifth starting position. Because Skinner wasn't locked into the field based on 2007 owner points, he had to err on the side of caution during time trials.

"I left a lot on the table coming to the flag," said Skinner, who will turn the car over to his Craftsman Truck Series teammate, Johnny Benson, next weekend at Atlanta. "We had been loose late-exit really bad all day, and I was concerned with screwing the lap up to the green. So, I probably left a tenth on the table right there.

"You're in a real unique situation here -- you can't go for it, but you got to go for it. You're damned if you go for it and damned if you don't in this deal. I don't like to be conservative in qualifying, and it's funny because I had to be conservative and go for it all at the same time. It's kind of a strange happening there."

AJ Allmendinger, who has yet to make the field for a Cup race in 2008, was the only Toyota driver failing to qualify.

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