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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on March 27, 2011 at 11:47pm

Suspension, who cares. He is taking some time off anyway

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on March 27, 2011 at 11:57pm

Just for conversation,both Nemechek (966 per) and McDowell (1199per) earn'd more money per mile than the winner Kevin Harvick (829per) .Rubbing salt in Robby's wound,todays result earn'd $1056 more (gross,not net$) than start and parking 43rd place.Robby earning where just short of $195.per mile.Whats exactly bad/wrong with start and parking?

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Permalink Reply by Sherri Fryer on March 28, 2011 at 12:10am

Is it really any wonder that a number of teams do choose to start and park ? As I see it( and I could be wrong) Nascar is making it easy for those teams to make this choice. If they're willing to pay them to only run a few laps, then it must be okay.

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on March 28, 2011 at 3:24am

Mike, that's not racing. Robby is a racer. Too much work has been done to just S&P.

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Permalink Reply by Edwardo on March 28, 2011 at 10:47am

Robby is a businessman! He has a cast of hundreds that depend on him so they (employees) can pay the bills.
S & P may be the way he keeps his shop open? NASCAR needs S & P drivers to fill the field of 43. It also helps to have S & P drivers who's names are familiar. Like "Front-Row Joe"; Robby "drive it like you stole it" Gordon, etc.

What Robby is doing makes perfect sense to me!

Que Bueno Senior Robby! "alabrava"!!!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on March 28, 2011 at 11:53am

@Bri, Like I said'just for conversation'. I didn't imply that that's Robby's plan.Just pointing out the irony.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Sadowski on March 28, 2011 at 8:23am

Bye Bye Fontana! As TOG says, Moving onto Martinsville and staying tuned for this big news Robby has (Reference Tweet)

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on March 28, 2011 at 8:52am

Hopefully it is something really big....as Harris Teeter is already on board in Virginia, so I imagine they might be on the car again,..

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on March 28, 2011 at 8:44am

Late to this dance...had afantasy baseball draft all afternoon yesterday,...had pit command up (no audio) to follow the dots....the best I could summize is that on the first long green flag run to start,, our car was good on the long run and we moved up a bunch of spots....pitted under green at lap 33 or so around P 27...after the cycle...P31...

eventually during the second long green flag run...we went a lap down around lap 55? then on the pit cycle at lap 73 we got caught down 2 laps because it did not completely cycle trhough? or is that where we ran out of gas?

Seemed to me that event sealed our fate, as with the lack of cautions no chance to wave around and no LD available being -2....

bummer, as cars we were bette than finished in low to mid 20s...

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Lutz on March 28, 2011 at 9:09am

Damn - this place is sure oozing with genius (heavy sarcasm)

Firstly - this has been driving me nuts for some time. when you go down a lap against the leader it is "lose" a lap. Note - single "o". A car that pushing up the race track is "loose". I wonder if RGM should listen to suggestions from folks who can't spell?

Secondly - regarding gas mileage. Here's a newsflash - the mileage isn't the same from race to race and track to track. It's not a fixed amount that just gets applied each week. It's variable, depending on a HUGE number of factors - too many to even list. Also - sometimes the team chooses to push their luck hoping for a caution. I'd gather a few facts before I started criticizing the team's math skills.

Lastly, RE: Earnings for Start and Park. Damn - this is awesome - do we just get to figure out the top line (revenue) now? Or - do you think if you're going to calculate revenue that way, you should also calcuate costs that way? Like, what did it cost Nemecheck and McDowell per lap? The purse is simply "gravy" the top line for teams is really the sponsorship dough, if you S&P you don't get as much exposure for the investment.

When you're trying to sell a product - that's probably not a great idea.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on March 28, 2011 at 9:22am

Funny, I thought that a car pushing up the race track was "tight"

Frustration, frustration. As always this season has not been what we all hoped after 5 races. Just a bad call by CC or the driver/CC when it comes to fuel.

At least we won't have any high expectations going into this weekend's race and soon we will just focus on the "fun" races.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Richards on March 28, 2011 at 10:12am

hey, how about expecting 43rd every week and anything else is a victory?

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