Toyota Hits 700 NASCAR Wins as a Tundra Driver Takes the Truck Title
Brandon Jones scored the milestone at Homestead a day after Kaden Honeycutt clinched the Truck Series championship in a Tundra, Toyota's 11th title in the class.
Toyota has now won 700 races across NASCAR's three national series, and it reached the mark on the same Homestead-Miami weekend that gave one of its Tundra drivers the Truck Series championship. Brandon Jones delivered the milestone in Saturday's O'Reilly Auto Parts Series finale, one night after TRICON Garage's Kaden Honeycutt won the truck race and the title with it.
The timing gives the number some weight. Toyota has spent more than two decades building this tally, and it is the record Dodge will be chasing when it returns to the Cup Series in 2027.
Where the 700 came from
According to Toyota, the count since its 2004 debut splits into 257 Truck Series wins, 222 in the O'Reilly series and 221 in the Cup Series. The truck class, the one closest to anything Toyota sells in a showroom, has produced the biggest share.
The pace has picked up. Jones also scored Toyota's 500th NASCAR win, at Phoenix in March 2020, so the most recent 200 came in less than seven years. The first took longer to arrive: Travis Kvapil won a truck race at Michigan in July 2004, Jason Leffler opened the O'Reilly account at Indianapolis Raceway Park in July 2007, and Kyle Busch won Toyota's first Cup race at Atlanta in March 2008.
Busch remains the backbone of the record with 203 of the wins. Eighty-nine drivers have won in a Toyota, with Denny Hamlin (76) and Christopher Bell (41) next on the list. Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota's partner since 2008, accounts for 395 victories on its own: 179 in Cup and 216 in the O'Reilly series. TRD president Tyler Gibbs credited the result to the people involved and said the work "is not done."
A Tundra title to go with it
Honeycutt's title is Toyota's 11th drivers' championship in the Truck Series and the second in a row for TRICON Garage, after Corey Heim won it in 2025. The 23-year-old Texan won five of 25 races, at Watkins Glen, Richmond, Kansas, Phoenix and Homestead, and led the series with 16 top-five and 19 top-10 finishes. His finale win was Toyota's 699th, which left the round number to Jones a day later.
He is the ninth Tundra driver to win the truck championship. His crew chief, Scott Zipadelli, became the first in series history to win the title with three different drivers, after Brett Moffitt and Heim. Honeycutt only joined Toyota's development program in August 2025, and he will defend the title next year in the same No. 11 Safelite Tundra.
The race truck carries the TRD Pro name, which Toyota also puts on its off-road showroom trucks. On the road-going side, the 2027 Tundra adds trailer assists and a Trailhunter trim, and how Toyota signs off a TRD Pro color is its own process.
The weekend rounds off a strong 2026 for the brand: Toyota had already clinched its fourth Cup Series manufacturers' championship in October. The 2027 season will bring Honeycutt's title defense and a returning Dodge into the same garage.
