2010 Darlington Southern 500 Race Weekend Info & Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the practice & race action for the 2010 Darlington Southern 500. Robby Gordon will be running the #7 Warner Music / James Otto & Whitney Duncan Toyota. Here is the weekend schedule for RGM at the South Carolina track.

FRIDAY , May 7th

Practice        11:30am - 1:00 pm/et    ( 45th Quickest )
Happy Hour         1:30 - 3:00 pm/et    ( 42nd Quickest )
Qualifying            5:10 - 7:00 pm/et    ( Starting 26th )

Practice Live Leaderboard

SATURDAY , May 8th

Raceday           7:00 pm/et , green flag at 7:46 pm/et   ( Finished 38th )

Dont forget live raceday chat will be available & position updates via PLANETROBBY TWITTER

                                                                 Robby Gordon Darlington Top 5 F.A.Q.

                                                                            1) Souvenir trailer ?
                                                                                NO
                                                                            2) What Chassis ?
                            New
                                                                            3) Who is the crew chief ?
                                                                    Larry Carter - Miles Stanley
                                                                            4) Who is the sponsor ?
                                                                          Warner Music
                                                                            5) What if Robby scrapes the wall ? Panic ?
                                                                               Nope. It's Darlington.Panic if he doesn't.

                                                                         2009 Darlington Images

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Ricks on May 5, 2010 at 11:56am

I can't wait. Hoping for a great run. I'm a member of the track safety team. I was lucky to meet RG a couple years ago and the year that followed after the race. RG is the MAN.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on May 5, 2010 at 11:59am

As long as your not meeting Robby by helping him out of his car on the track, then I hope you see him too.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on May 5, 2010 at 12:14pm

True'ism,Alan

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on May 5, 2010 at 1:22pm

Is he awesome to people in the garage or what? If fans could spend a hour in the garage before races watching how drivers interact with fans, RG would be the most popular driver in the sport.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on May 5, 2010 at 12:23pm

RGM has produced a few new chassis this year. I'm really interested to see how this one performs. What kind of new development goes into the manufacturing of these new generation chassis'?

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on May 5, 2010 at 12:42pm

meeting the Nascar Specs is priority, the have to send each chassis out for certification once built. I think it cost a few thousand to certify a new chassis

they can only make minor changes, but no one seems to know what those are......Hmm, wonder why?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on May 5, 2010 at 10:04pm

In my speculation RGM has hit of weight placement/bias/transfer (there not all the same) issue's with the new chassis.Weight related issue's are different on tracks with alot of banking vs flat tracks. Banked tracks compress's both sides of the chassis more equaly,flat tracks compress the right side of the chassis,thus relying heavily on sway bar size vs corner spring rate.IMO

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Permalink Reply by TOG on May 5, 2010 at 2:33pm

Yeah, a few will probably scrape the wall in the first practice. I am trying to remember, but somebody here posted a Darlingotn wall scrape running tally last year. That was pretty cool & I hope they do it again.

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Permalink Reply by Keith on May 5, 2010 at 3:57pm

Just pack some extra foam on the right side. ;)

Kyle Busch won this race 2 years ago and the right side was totally pancaked.
He wacked the wall again coming to the white flag.

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Permalink Reply by annaabbie'sDAD on May 8, 2010 at 10:19am

Pretty sure it was Tony Gibson,which is Ryan Newmans CC He also talked about back in the day they would use just about anything like 2x4 & 4x4 lumber.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on May 5, 2010 at 3:20pm

FAQ #2

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Permalink Reply by General Lee on May 5, 2010 at 4:08pm

i am from Darlington, anybody going to the races this weekend? I got pit passes and a garage pass for Friday. Hope to meet Robby. When he has at least an half-ass car, he runs realy good here. Should have won both races in 2004.