Toyota teams a tick faster

Tony Stewart dropped on the speed charts, from second and third on Monday to fifth and 14th on Tuesday, during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series testing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
But the Toyota cars for Joe Gibbs Racing were actually about a second faster on the track. That's all good news to Stewart, whose team switched from Chevrolet engines to Toyotas in the offseason.
"We were joking because we were looking at the sheet yesterday and today at the same time we are all a second faster," said Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "I think it shows how important this test is as far as getting stuff to where you can go from square one to getting it where it’s at.”
This was the first time the drivers for Joe Gibbs Racing were able to test their new cars on a mile-and-a-half track. They have tested at Talladega and Daytona, the two restrictor-plate tracks on the Cup schedule.
"This week is a huge week for everybody to get a base of what they have to do to their cars to get them comfortable and then we can all figure out how to make them go fast from there," Stewart said.