Toyota started off the 2016 season like it finished 2015 — with a win.
For never winning a Daytona 500, Toyota could have easily swept the top-five in Sunday's Great American Race if it weren't for Matt Kenseth losing the lead on the final lap and hitting the wall.
Toyota's race cars were so good that only 0.01 seconds separated Denny Hamlin and his Joe Gibbs Racing pseudo teammate Martin Truex Jr. in the closest finish in Daytona 500 history.
Kyle Busch, who won NASCAR's final race of 2015 along with the Cup championship, finished Sunday's race in third while Carl Edwards was fifth despite going a lap down earlier in the race and slamming into the wall in an accident with Brian Vickers and Trevor Bayne.