2011 Montreal Race Weekend and Discussion

Discuss all the weekend action for the 2011 Nationwide road race from Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal as Robby Gordon Motorsports welcomes back MAPEI as primary sponsor of the #77 SPEED Energy Dodge. Here is the weekend schedule:

FRIDAY , AUGUST 19th

Practice 1 8:30AM - 10:00AM (EST) ( TV - ?? )

Practice 2 10:30AM - 12:00PM (EST) ( TV - ?? )

Qualifying 5:00PM (EST) ( TV - ?? )

SATURDAY , AUGUST 20th

Countdown 2:00PM (EST) Usually highlights from practice & qualifying ( TV - ESPN )

Race 2:30PM (EST) ( TV - ESPN )

As always, live raceday chat will be available & live track updates via PLANETROBBY TWITTER

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Permalink Reply by 1ly3ruspf06hv on August 19, 2011 at 7:26pm

ok cool thanks as always mike

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Permalink Reply by jkbekins on August 19, 2011 at 7:35pm

Why is Robby not listed on the qual. order on the NASCAR web site??

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Permalink Reply by Robert Richards on August 19, 2011 at 7:39pm

maybe going the Elliot Sadler route and racing Nationwide full time is the best way to get the most Speed exposure for this team........ there's much more tv time when running up front...... make sense ?

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Permalink Reply by BajaTuner on August 19, 2011 at 7:58pm

$$$$

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on August 19, 2011 at 8:38pm

Exactly,$$$. A WIN in the N/W-Truck series is 30k ish (making it a financail loss) the TV exposure for N/W or Trucks is luke warm at best. A CUP start is worth 65k ish. The cost to build a Truck is the same as a CUP or N/W vehicle.Engines being the big difference in expense. Robby is effectively self sponsor'd (pure expense,remember that Robby's goal to print money is to sell a product,Speed Energy) Unlike the government Robby can deficit spend!

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Permalink Reply by Robert Richards on August 19, 2011 at 9:09pm

so running in the back or not at all can sell more product and makes more sense than running up front and winning races...... ok, just wondering

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Permalink Reply by WJM on August 19, 2011 at 9:41pm

Got to operate within the budget. Running up front would be great but it also takes crates stuffed with cubic dollars.

It's a Catch-22 for sure. Look at Joe Nemechek. Great qualifier. Has yet to DNQ. But it's not enough to attract a sponsor. Joe knows he can only run x-number of laps to make enough to keep the lights on and go to the next race. Hard to attract sponsor dollars when your only running 1/10th of a race but its all the budget allows. Ask Joe why he doesn't 'just' go all in for a couple of races and see how much sponsor money suddenly falls from the sky.

Better yet, ask Bobby Ginn.

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Permalink Reply by Jeffwith2F's&1eye on August 19, 2011 at 10:49pm

WJM ?
Why you so BAD! lol

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Permalink Reply by NigletUK on August 20, 2011 at 6:09am

Thats why Joe does it isn't it? Put a car together that they know will go fast for quals, get in the game, hello money to pay for the whole Nationwide race. Seems an ideal thing to do to get the dosh you need...

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Permalink Reply by WJM on August 20, 2011 at 11:26am

I don't disagree with you. I like Joe's business plan. It makes sense and it works. Could RGM emulate it? Probably. Listen to Robby's post-practice interview. They scabbed together a NW car from a crunched Cup car, no testing, and have been running upfront since they unloaded.