2011 Fontana Race Weekend Info & Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the weekend action for the 2011 Fontana cup race. Robby Gordon will drive the #7 FOOD 4 LESS / SPEED Energy Dodge. Robby had a 33rd place finish last year at Fontana. Here is the weekend schedule for RGM at the California track.

FRIDAY , MARCH 25th

Practice 3:00pm - 4:30pm/et ( TV - SPEED )
Qualifying 7:00pm - 9:00pm/et ( TV - SPEED )

Practice Live Leaderboard

SATURDAY , MARCH 26th

Practice #2           2:30pm - 3:15pm/et ( TV - SPEED )
Happy Hour           3:50pm - 4:50pm/et   ( TV - SPEED )

SUNDAY , MARCH 27th

Raceday              3:00 pm/et , greenflag at 3:16 pm/et ( TV - FOX )

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

                                                               Robby Gordon Fontana Top 5 F.A.Q.

                                                                            1) Souvenir trailer ?
                                                                                HELL YEAH!
                                                                            2) Who is the crew chief ?
                                                                    Miles Stanley & Steve Lane
                                                                            3) Who is the sponsor ?
                                                                          FOOD 4 LESS/SPEED Energy
                                                                            4) What Chassis ?
                                                                                Last run at Vegas
                                                                            5) Will Robby run Martinsville?
                                                                                YES!

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on March 28, 2011 at 11:17am

@ Rob you are correct. @ Chris, I agree about the whole spelling thing.

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on March 28, 2011 at 8:35pm

If we expect 43 rd every week, .and Rob gets 30th. Is that like......13 wins in one race

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on March 28, 2011 at 10:32am

You are correct on the fuel mileage Christopher. However, given the new ethanol, and dodge engines this year, I would think some of the practice time made available could be used to figure out the mileage before the race. (Of course now that practice speeds determine qual order, it kind of eliminates using the pre-qual practice from any kind of useful testing other than balls-out speed.)

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on March 28, 2011 at 11:18am

They didn't get it full. A couple people made mistakes on this one. He came up about a quarter Gallon short. Shouldn't have happened, but it did. On to the next one.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on March 28, 2011 at 11:40am

Ah, I hadn't heard that. I thought it was a miscalculation. Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on March 28, 2011 at 12:40pm

Ya, no one has heard it. Thats not official from the team tho. Should have been caught, it wasn't. I'm not going to place blame here. I'll post the stop in the videos. On the bright side, saw lots of SPEED fans around. Also, the SPEED and redbull haulers were parked next to each other. I took pictures of both coolers about 15 mins before green. (Coolers are free for everyone to try that are in the garage area). The Speed cooler was only half ful. The redbull cooler was 95% full. All other crew guys were going for Robby's drink over redbull's. This stuff is GOOD!

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Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on March 28, 2011 at 12:55pm

O N THE SCANNER sUNDAY " DO NOT WAIT FOR FUEL"

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on March 28, 2011 at 12:55pm

yep...i'll post the stop tonight.

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Permalink Reply by 7-SPEED-77 on March 28, 2011 at 11:09am

Hey TOG do you know if this was the same car as Vegas?, I think he had trouble getting it to turn there also, The car was definitely fast down the straights but he appeared not to be able to hold it through the turns.