2010 Daytona 500 Race Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the practice & race action for the 2010 Daytona 500. Robby
Gordon will be running the #7 Monster Energy Toyota.Robby will start 34th on Sunday.Here is the schedule for RGM at the Florida track.

FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 12th

Practice 1:40 - 2:40 pm/et ( CANCELLED - RAIN )

SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 13th

Practice 10:30 - 11:55 am/et ( 14th Quickest )

SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 14th

Daytona 500 1:00 pm/et , green flag at 1:19 pm/et ( Finished 28th )

Dont forget live raceday chat will be available,as well as live twitter feeds from the track.

Garagecam from DAYTONA

Practice Live Leaderboard

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 11, 2010 at 7:08pm

Totally forgot they moved the start time back a little bit from previous years.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 11, 2010 at 7:11pm

Free trackpass & scanner this weekend at nascar.com

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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on February 11, 2010 at 8:11pm

Well the agenda for getting the #49 in the big show is over, now all attention should be focused on waking the Monster up! Hopefully we will see more speed out of the #7 car. Looking at the past 2 years at plate tracks, Robby ran slow by himself, but always had a bad-fast ride in the draft.

In 2009 was running 41st & 38th the first 2 practices, then jumped up to 18th, then 5th and 2nd in the final 3 (draft)practices at Daytona. At Dega, Robby turned the fastest lap in practice. In the July Daytona race, was 42nd in single run practice and 20th in drafting practice. In the Fall Dega race, Robby was 7th in the first practice and 20th in the 2nd practice. Robby played the ride-n-back strategy in the first 3 plate races and fell vitim to a crash during his late charges. In the last plate race, Robby lead the race, was up front the majority of the day, but again was caught up in the Big One.

Hopefully Robby can catch a break this year and get the car running up front again. Robby said he brought the best car he's ever had to Daytona this year...well I hope he's right, cause the car at Dega was really good!

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Permalink Reply by Trickle on February 11, 2010 at 8:34pm

I didn't see that fast car today.

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Permalink Reply by gorobbygo7 on February 11, 2010 at 10:37pm

Actually it was impressive to see Robby catching the pack by himself today. Do not let the results fool you from today, Robby was hanging around the back trying to get Gilly into the show.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 12, 2010 at 12:00am

Go get em champ ! it was a q-race. the #49 was a crippled car after smacking the wall, but RG still had no choice but to ride behind him like BJ did to RG at Dakar. Now the focus is on the #7 , 2 practices and the ACTUAL race that counts.

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Permalink Reply by Alex on February 12, 2010 at 12:24am

Deep breathes TOG, breathe in, and out. Lol, Actually theres a whole bunch of people on this board that need to CALM down. The season technically hasnt even started yet

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 12, 2010 at 12:36am

lol.. this thread is really for practices & a race that has yet to be run, so really,we need to turn the page. Last I checked, RG is racing on Sunday,and he will race just fine.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 12, 2010 at 12:38am

gilly was fine, and then he got loose and scrubbed the wall,and spun.that was it, he was a longshot to transfer after that. Contrary to belief, there is still a race to be run.

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Permalink Reply by 1splat on February 12, 2010 at 12:46am

David, or Gilly, as you mention was racing great until he got loose, corrected it, and then was hit by someone else that couldn't check up in time, which sent him spinning......if not for that, he had a great opportunity to make the show.
Robby went to the rescue, which ment he lost the draft, and tried to help out after that, but the car was too badly damaged to move forward.