2011 Talladega #1 Race Weekend Info & Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the weekend action for the 2011 Talladega #1 cup race. Robby Gordon will drive the #7 FAST FIVE / SPEED Energy Dodge. Robby had a great run in the 2011 Daytona plate race. Here is the weekend schedule for RGM at the Alabama track.

FRIDAY , APRIL 15th

 Practice              2:00pm - 2:40pm/et   ( TV - SPEED )

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

Practice Live Leaderboard

SATURDAY , APRIL 16th

 Qualifying            11:30pm - 2:00pm/et   ( TV - SPEED )


SUNDAY , APRIL 17th

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

 

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

                                                               Robby Gordon Talladega Top 5 F.A.Q.

                                                                            1) Souvenir trailer ?
                                                                                YES
                                                                            2) Who is the crew chief ?
                                                                                Miles Stanley
                                                                            3) Who is the sponsor ?
                                                                                Fast Five/SPEED Energy
                                                                            4) What Chassis ?
                                                                                Ran At Daytona
                                                                            5) Will the new number be used?
                                                                                Yes.

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on April 18, 2011 at 3:07pm
Well I owed the board some quality comments after slightly being paranoid about Hornish running the 7 car yesterday..LOL
Permalink Reply by Bruce Smith on April 18, 2011 at 11:55am
I didn't watch the complete race as I was working on a project in the back yard. So, I missed the part in the middle of Robby and Casey working together to get both cars back on the lead lap. To me the finish of the race was very good and that includes where RG finished. The 7 and the 13 are both 30th or farther back finishing cars on most days. Casey is a pretty good driver and we all think Robby is a great driver, but neither one has a great car to drive.

Robby has been good in the past on the plate tracks, but the dynamics of that type of racing has changed now and most of that advantage is gone. Also, in the old style of plate racing "luck" had something to do with where you finished and that isn't as important anymore. Now it's your drafting partner for the day. All the multiple car teams tried to just work with each other and that left the single car teams to match up with each other. I think the 7 and the 13 working together was a good idea. Be glad it wasn't the 22 that was pushing RG all day! Kurt took 3 different partners out while pushing them. Just my 2 cents worth.
Permalink Reply by Stan Ratcliff on April 18, 2011 at 1:32pm
Here is my 2 cents, This type of racing sucks. If you want to call it racing.
Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on April 18, 2011 at 1:46pm
What is it ..News Corp. that owns Fox 20th century fox studios ? It's Universal that produced Fast 5. The entertainment biz is cut throat to the hilt. "remember to the hilt"? I would wonder out loud weather or not FOX avoided the Fast 5 car. Did they show Rob when he got the lucky dog ,I was radio only in transit at the time. competition for our entertainment dollars is huge in the movie biz, why would Fox advertise to supposed millions a movie from another studio? And yes I believe all this conspiring to accomplish shit, what else does a guy get paid millions to do, decide on if paper towels in all the johns is cheaper than hot air blowers? No it's shit like "don't show universals movie on that car".

Then you can fire back with how the movie Cars 2 will get some exposure with "JEFF" Gordon playing Jeff Gorvette but cup races will be on TNT then and i'm very biased that FOX is on the FIX while TNT is more of an open minded company.
What am I saying? FOX put the hex on showing a movie from a different company, to all those that caught the lack of and/or avoidance of showing the 7 car. FOX SUX end of story?
Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on April 18, 2011 at 2:26pm
Great theory about the Fox/Universal rivals. Robby gets more exposure during qualifying and practice on Speed TV. Additionally, when Robby got the Lucky Dog and was runnnig with Max...er...Casey, Robby's name was mentioned a few times.

From the limited amount of the race I did see, Fox did show Robby and Casey coming in together for a green flag pit stop. No close-ups of the car though.
Permalink Reply by Robert Richards on April 19, 2011 at 12:58am
run up front, get noticed....
Permalink Reply by ROBERT SAVAGE on April 18, 2011 at 5:53pm
FOX lies! o.k. Lefty
Permalink Reply by brian campbell on April 18, 2011 at 5:56pm
this sounds like you have got something there i look for Robby during all broadcasts and he never gets left out like he did this last weekend.should have gotten it up front and gave fox the finger.
Permalink Reply by MartyP on April 18, 2011 at 6:34pm
I agree with you.
Permalink Reply by Slider316 on April 18, 2011 at 2:56pm
Casey's post race report mentions RG pulling out of line for a pass, then both of them dropping back. I know they got disconnected, but on the scanner RG apologized for getting separated. Did RG really leave Casey? It didn't look that way to me.
Permalink Reply by TOG on April 18, 2011 at 3:00pm
according to RG he didn't....he had to get air to his nose..
Permalink Reply by Mike Phillips on April 18, 2011 at 3:28pm
So his car was getting hot than? Because it looked like they were going 2 the front for a real look at a top 10. Seemed like Robby's car was faster than Mears so we got out Mears could not pull up 2 the back of him. Bummer on the timing it sure was looking promising in the closing laps.

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