Labonte signs and another potential ride for Robby is lost.........

Well, Bobby is gone and another seat is filled for next year. Things are starting to happen now and I hope Robby has a chair for next season when the music stops...........

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Permalink Reply by TOG on July 29, 2010 at 12:58pm

cart doesnt exist, so he would be the only one in that series.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on July 29, 2010 at 1:44pm

If RG wanted to drive for someone else, he would still be at RCR.

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Permalink Reply by Turtle7 on July 29, 2010 at 3:19pm

Look at Mark M's career. He is usually there inside the top 10; never won a championship and is racing in NASCRAP for how many years? As RG said, Mark's last win extended Robby's driving days.

The mantra should be - All we need is sponsorship!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Reeves on July 29, 2010 at 5:22pm

Robby just needs to find that big buck sponsor to cover a load of races, top it up with Menards and Monster (are they coming back next year?), and keep on with the 7. i just don't see Robby going cap in hand to another team or taking his sponsors to stick on someone else's car. Robby does it himself, one man against the world, and that's why i totally respect the guy.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on July 30, 2010 at 3:49pm

I don't want to sound like Debbie Downer, but you realize that Mark Martin, Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman each have unsold races for 2010-11, right? If people with those resumes can't find Cup sponsors, how is RG supposed to do it?

Monster is done with RG in Cup. It isn't their thing, according to them. Menards seems to have taken a step back from Robby in order to concentrate on Paul's struggling career.

For 2010, I think one of three things is going to happen:
1. Menards and Paul move over to RGM, giving him full backing for two cars. This has been a pipe dream for everyone here for years, but there is no indication that this will happen, now or ever.

2. Robby will run a partial Cup schedule and run other series (sort of like the original plan for this year). We see him in the 7 at the four plate races, Indy, the two road courses and probably the 600 if he can find somoene willing to back doing the double. There's no way he goes to Pocono, Martinsville and some of the cookie-cutters where he has struggled so badly.

3. Robby latches on with another team and gives up Cup ownership (or runs the 7 as a S&P while driving for someone else) but finding that seat isn't going to be easy, as the garage could lose as many as six or seven full-time teams before next year.

Again, not to be negative, but that's what is going on out there. The economy sucks and it just isn't getting any better. Think potential sponsors saw the tens of thousands of empty seats at the 'marquee' race at Indy last week?

I think we should all prepare for option 2, unfortunately.

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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on July 30, 2010 at 6:08pm

1. Is a fantasy.

2. More what I would expect to happen

3. Would be best, provided he can actually find a seat. As usual, there will be more drivers than seats....

4. Whore the #7 out to Citgo and let Milka Duno drive it. It would piss off the Danica/HMS crowd...