BY TEAM FORD RACING CORRESPONDENT

Long Pond, Pa. — Joe Gibbs Racing still hasn’t announced whether it will switch to Toyotas next year, but the buzz is that it will.

Some clues? Tony Stewart’s souvenir trailers were selling merchandise at 50 percent off regular price last week at the Brickyard, Stewart’s home track and a place where the Hoosier native is wildly popular.

Also, a source at Richard Childress Racing said it has been approached by Hall of Fame Racing, a satellite Gibbs team, about buying engines from the newly merged RCR-Dale Earnhardt Inc., engine operation in 2008. Presumably, HOF is hedging its bets, if it ends up not being part of a Gibbs move to Toyota.