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Kevin Conway's Response
Kevin Conway released a statement Monday evening: "I don't mind stiff competition, but I want to make sure the hard facts are told.
Really, is this an appropriate time to be making sponsor plugs, I thought this was a serious situation that Kevin went to the police about?
First and foremost, I love being a part of NASCAR and have worked very hard to earn the privilege of competing in the Sprint Cup Series.
Worked, earned....debatable at best.
On Friday night, Robby Gordon, who has a long history of issues in NASCAR decided to ambush me in the garage area at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, completely unprovoked.
RG's past is just that, past issues. How exactly do you get ambushed in a Cup garage, its almost too fan friendly at time and most sources initially said nobody saw the situation.
Robby even confronted Joe Nemechek, my car owner, on pit road during Cup Series qualifying shoving him and telling him that he was looking for me and going to assault me.
So wait, he assaulted Joe , threatened to harm you and you still decided to go around him. Seems like if that was the case you would either avoid that person, or confront them. So why go over to the Cup garage unless it was for the confrontation?
We have many witnesses including a crew chief that signed a police report documenting the truth of his physical attack on me.
So wait, now other people saw this and its automatically the "truth" just because its signed on a police report. If its legally documented, why not name this person directly?
Situations like this are not good for our sport. It's one thing if we were racing each other and I wrecked him or he wrecked me, that's an entirely different situation. I
Sure, both RG and Joe need his stuff torn up and Nascar just thrives on intentional wrecking, clearly this would have been a better route.
It's very unfortunate that he chose to physically attack me to address his rage. Our fans, sponsors and NASCAR expect and deserve more from our competitors than this bullish, illegal behavior that was displayed by Robby against me."
Bullish and Illegal are both his opinion, but in his defense, Extenze has a pretty "firm grasp" on "hard facts" when it comes to things being illegal. The did have that 6 million dollar out of court settlement. Plus already have pending issues with RGM and Front Row.
Really, is this an appropriate time to be making sponsor plugs, I thought this was a serious situation that Kevin went to the police about?
First and foremost, I love being a part of NASCAR and have worked very hard to earn the privilege of competing in the Sprint Cup Series.
Worked, earned....debatable at best.
On Friday night, Robby Gordon, who has a long history of issues in NASCAR decided to ambush me in the garage area at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, completely unprovoked.
RG's past is just that, past issues. How exactly do you get ambushed in a Cup garage, its almost too fan friendly at time and most sources initially said nobody saw the situation.
Robby even confronted Joe Nemechek, my car owner, on pit road during Cup Series qualifying shoving him and telling him that he was looking for me and going to assault me.
So wait, he assaulted Joe , threatened to harm you and you still decided to go around him. Seems like if that was the case you would either avoid that person, or confront them. So why go over to the Cup garage unless it was for the confrontation?
We have many witnesses including a crew chief that signed a police report documenting the truth of his physical attack on me.
So wait, now other people saw this and its automatically the "truth" just because its signed on a police report. If its legally documented, why not name this person directly?
Situations like this are not good for our sport. It's one thing if we were racing each other and I wrecked him or he wrecked me, that's an entirely different situation. I
Sure, both RG and Joe need his stuff torn up and Nascar just thrives on intentional wrecking, clearly this would have been a better route.
It's very unfortunate that he chose to physically attack me to address his rage. Our fans, sponsors and NASCAR expect and deserve more from our competitors than this bullish, illegal behavior that was displayed by Robby against me."
Bullish and Illegal are both his opinion, but in his defense, Extenze has a pretty "firm grasp" on "hard facts" when it comes to things being illegal. The did have that 6 million dollar out of court settlement. Plus already have pending issues with RGM and Front Row.
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Permalink Reply by MerlotMax on
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Cannot say I really paid attention the their arrangement. If that is the way it is working, then good for Joe.
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Permalink Reply by Sean O'Neill on
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I want to punch Conway out myself after reading that. I'll give him the good old Canadian hockey fists and send him into next week. I got your back Robby! Lol.
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Permalink Reply by Sherri Fryer on
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The problem with that is shit splatters, which makes a mess that has to be cleaned up. Who wants cleanup duty? Anyone..........
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Permalink Reply by yiyac on
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Conway be a man, you couldn't even stand up to Robby,you had to go file a report? What a wuss. BUT that is OUR Robby,,,,dont put up with no Crap,,,,,,,,WAY TO GO ROBBY !!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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I am officially making the official statement that originally was not going to be the official statement but was later edited to include such facts as to include all lies thus rendering it usable tender in the event that an official statement was to be issued as to resolve any and all matters pertaining to violations of law be it felonious in nature or lesser violation to wit any and all court actions determine the plaintiff to be the defendant in which case the parties involved guilty and innocent would be required to release an official statement pertaining to any and all previous statements made be it hear say or witnessed fact regardless of literary borders that may or may not lay foundation to the contrary circumstances that in effect will negate but not eliminate any and all said attempts at furthering the litigation be it in length of time or course of action to wit all parties big and small fat and thin smart and dumb short and tall shall desist all actions.
In other words the official statement on Conway is who cares!
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Just too f'in funny. Does this go along with his "Balls in a bag" - for those times he wants to look like a man.
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Permalink Reply by Karen on
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LOL - ha ha ha -- I love this - the rat is great!!!! Can you post this on Twitter? Probably not, but a shame to not share, lol.
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Permalink Reply by Trooper Blue on
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Robby Gordon denies punching Kevin Conway, gets NASCAR probation for rest of 2011 season
Robby Gordon, whose NASCAR probation will last through the end of the 2011 season for a physical altercation with Kevin Conway that occurred last Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, released a statement Tuesday saying Conway was the aggressor and he did not punch Conway.
According to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Conway’s report to them alleged that a couple of punches were thrown by Gordon during the incident.
The Las Vegas police have not turned over their investigation to the local district attorney’s office, and Gordon has not been charged. NASCAR put Gordon on indefinite probation Saturday and announced Tuesday that the probation would last through the entire 2011 season.
“It is unfortunate that Conway has chosen to use this insignificant event as a means of attracting publicity to himself, and it is particularly unfortunate that he has done so by making a series of false reports to others,” Robby Gordon Motorsports said in a statement.
“Contrary to Conway’s account, no punches were thrown. The simple truth is that Conway voluntarily and aggressively engaged in the exchange with Robby Gordon, and neither man was injured.”
Conway, in an interview on Sirius Satellite Radio earlier in the day, said that Gordon was the aggressor and had told Conway team owner Joe Nemechek that he was looking for him.
“He was actually in Joe’s hauler and came out and I was standing by Joe’s garage stall and, more or less, … [he] came up and it wasn’t really much of a verbal altercation or anything,” Conway said. “He basically just grabbed me, and grabbed me by the throat and got me down on the ground. And it was pretty crazy but pretty short. … It was a blatant attack.”
The Gordon statement said that the two were involved in a heated exchange in the garage area arising from their lawsuits. Gordon is suing Conway sponsor Extenze for $690,000 for three races from the 2010 season. At issue is whether Extenze gave its consent for Gordon to replace Conway as its driver to keep the car in the top 35.
Conway is suing Gordon for $29,000 for rookie-of-the-year money that Gordon received as the team owner. The contract Gordon has with Extenze states that all rookie money goes to Conway.
Gordon said Saturday that he would pay Conway the rookie money once he gets his money from Extenze. The money that went to Gordon was for the part of the season that Conway, who started 2010 with Front Row Motorsports, drove for Gordon.
“Conway would better serve the interests of our sport and the fans by making sure that he meets his personal financial obligations to our teams before engaging in publicity seeking behavior of this type,” Gordon’s team said in its statement.
Conway, who also is being sued by Front Row Motorsports over whether Extenze had an obligation to pay for races beyond the 15th race of the 2010 season, said on the Sirius radio show that his behavior isn’t the one that should be questioned.
“Our fans and our sponsors and NASCAR as a whole, they expect more out of us and they deserve more out of us than the actions that were shown by Robby,” Conway said. “So it’s embarrassing for everybody involved. It’s definitely not something that’s good to be exploited or anything like that.”
Gordon is competing on a limited Sprint Cup schedule this year with the team he owns while Conway is driving a limited Nationwide and Cup schedule for Nemco Motorsports.
NASCAR probation covers any NASCAR series a driver participates in but typically impacts the severity of penalties issued for a repeat occurrence of a similar infraction.
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