2011 Brickyard 400 Race Info & Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the weekend action for the 2011 Brickyard 400 cup race. RGM will have 2 cars at Indy, Robby Gordon in the #7 & Scott Wimmer in the #77. Here is the weekend schedule for RGM at the Indiana track.

FRIDAY , JULY 29th

Practice            1:00pm - 2:15 pm/et   ( TV - SPEED )
Practice            3:15pm - 4:30 pm/et   ( TV - SPEED )

Practice Live Leaderboard

SATURDAY , JULY 30th

Practice          10:00am - 11:30 am/et ( TV - ESPN2 )
Qualifying          2:10pm - 4:00 pm/et   ( TV - ESPN2 )

SUNDAY , JULY 31st

Raceday           1:00 pm/et , greenflag at 1:19 pm/et ( TV - ESPN2 )

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

                                                              Robby Gordon Indianapolis Top 5 F.A.Q.

                                                                            1) Souvenir trailer ?
                                                                                YES
                                                                            2) What Chassis ?
                            RGMCWF25B-2011 & RGMSPWTT43B
                                                                            3) Who is the crew chief ?
                                                                    Brad Parrott & Miles Stanley
                                                                            4) Who is the sponsor ?
                                                                          SPEED Energy
                                                                            5) Wind Tunnel ?
                                                                                Yes. This week.

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Permalink Reply by tim jones on August 1, 2011 at 9:57pm

That commercial is hilarious. My kids and I laugh every time it comes on.

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Permalink Reply by Jeffwith2F's&1eye on August 1, 2011 at 10:49pm

MW jumped the Shark with that one

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Permalink Reply by RadioMan on August 1, 2011 at 8:08pm

I am curious. Did anyone determine what happen to the engine? Crank, value spring or cam failure? No one can predict when an engine will fail, and changing an engine at your own discretion would allow big teams to bring lots of engines and get lots of testing. They could run engine A in practice 1 and engine B in practice 2 and which ever worked best install for qualifying or install a Fresh version of A or a Fresh version of B. This assumes there is enough time to change engines between practices. Remember when the Big teams built high dollar engines just for qualifying? NASCAR changed the rules to try and keep cost down to help guys like Robby. It's RUN WHAT YOU BRUNG and them are the breaks. BTW when was the last time Robby had an engine failure?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 1, 2011 at 8:22pm

Valve...On To Pocono!

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Permalink Reply by WJM on August 2, 2011 at 10:11am

Gibbs valve?

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on August 1, 2011 at 8:30pm

Vegas

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Permalink Reply by RadioMan on August 1, 2011 at 8:54pm

Thanks...

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Permalink Reply by jpackfan on August 2, 2011 at 3:12pm

Kirk Shelmerdine used to build his cars using parts that Childress would discard because they were too old for Childress to want to put on his cars. I wonder what kind of parts RGM is using.

How many teams have had an engine let go within the first 15 laps of use? Was this engine even new or rebuilt for Indy?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 2, 2011 at 3:17pm

RGM has a state of the art machine shop in full swing.

Motor was brand new. It Blew. Thats racing. On to Pocono.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on August 2, 2011 at 4:15pm

Gibbs teams this season,RCR has had a few.Not sure how many racing engines you've built jpack,but in my experience if it's going to break,it happen's early,other wise they break becouse you've exceed'd milage limits.