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The Kingdom strikes back. Toyotas in the Nationwide series will run Restrictor Plates

You want to know the real story? Just read between the lines:

Joe Gibbs Racing, particularly, has enjoyed the most success with 13 wins coming from four different drivers, including nine with its No. 20 team.

As early as March, owners in the series, including Jack Roush and Kevin Harvick, were raising the warning flag of a distinct horsepower advantage by Toyota engines in all three series.

It wasn't the Toyota teams as a whole doing well.

It was Joe Gibbs Racing that was doing so well and Jack Roush was not happy. The fact is, if JGR had been running Chevy and had been dominating, Jack Roush still would have been bitching up a storm, because that's what he does.

It's pretty pathetic that NASCAR has been reduced to trying to cripple a manufacturer rather than tell the other teams "suck it up and get your act together boys". Toyota teams that are not JGR are going to suffer big time.

NASCAR has tried in the past to make the field all the same, but they've never been this blatant nor this ham-fisted. The COT plays right into that (and I'm surprised they haven't forced it down the throat of the Nationwide teams).

Just imagine if NASCAR had tried to cripple all of the Fords like this because Bill Elliott was winning too much. (You could argue that they tried to cripple Elliott by tearing down his car after every race ;-) )