Mad Mikie

Here's some quotes from Mad Mikie at laidbackracing.com. This guy seems to be a Robby fan and writes about Robby often in his articles.

An update on something that TNT missed at Sears Point. PJ Jones was the first one out of the race at Sears Point but TNT didn’t bother to update us on the reasons why. He lost the power steering belt on the pace lap, took the green, then looped in going into turn 7. To add insult to injury, he also turned the engine backwards when he looped it. So now you know that it wasn’t just a start and park deal.

While not NA$CAR news, it does involve a current NA$CAR driver and a former one. Robby Gordon will be teaming with former Truck Series driver Bill Lester in the SAMAX Motorsports Daytona Prototype for the July 4th Grand Am race at Daytona. Jim Beam will be the sponsor on the car. That‘s going to be a long day for Robby. And who knows? Maybe something good will come out of this for Bill Lester too, since there’s a rumor that despite what happened to PJ Jones at Sears Point that Robby is considering running a second car at Watkins Glen for both the Cup and Busch races. So maybe we’ll see Bill back on the NA$CAR circuit for a race or two.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on July 1, 2009 at 2:20pm

Problem is now, the last place payouts are $70,000, and the payout for 30th is only a few thousand more.Why not have last place pay $40,000,then maybe have $5,000 incriments for each position thereafter. At least the start and parks will have to race longer if they want to get that bigger race payout,thus creating a few races within a race.

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Permalink Reply by WJM on July 1, 2009 at 4:01pm

Too funny. I know Mike Huver (Mad Mikie) and he is indeed a Robby Gordon fan. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I seldom read his column unless he sends it to me. I should make it a habit of reading it more often to keep him honest.

Our conversations are primarily Dakar and off-road related. He's a big time Dakar follower. He doesn't join fan sites as a rule, but I think he'll join PR if I nudge him. He's also a very close friend of 1960 NASCAR champion, Rex White. Rex has some very cool stories about the early days...