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Robby Gordon plans to have Kevin Conway in car rest of year while working on 2011 program
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Robby Gordon hopes to have a deal done soon to have Kevin Conway drive a Robby Gordon Motorsports car the rest of the season and possibly next year.
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
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Permalink Reply by mic kanic on
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Less flow in indy than nationwide on average, I think that is a no go.
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Permalink Reply by dastexan on
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Conway will have better results in RGM equipment than in FRM equipment.
I dont see any way the 7 falls out of the top 35. Would also be really sweet to see two RGM cars run the distance at some point (Texas and Talladega maybe?)
If Extenze is on board, no way this team S & P 's it. Period.
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Obviously Robby has a plan in place here to keep RGM's doors open. Its a great business move. He's not expecting RG fans to become Conway fans. Give it a chance and hope this sponsor can help keep them in the black and in the top 35 so the team can make it to 2011. Show your support.
Now I gotta get to the pharmacy to buy some Extenze...
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Permalink Reply by WJM on
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I read it as Robby and Kevin splitting the remaining races in the #7 with Conway/Extenze picking up the races that are unsold, which I believe amounts to around 7 events.
RGM is a small team by any measure and they've done a yeoman's job in turning around and prepping two entries the past couple of weeks. If anything, RGM should have gained confidence knowing they are capable of a second entry even if the plan is to start and park it. Though it may have helped cash-flow it's not a sustainable strategy without adding some personnel and inventory.
Hopefully they can work a deal for 2011 with forward commitment, i.e., money in the bank, to rebuild inventory and add to the talent in the shop and the race track. It's all about commitment and real dollars, not lip service and wishful thinking [cough]BAM[/cough]. With Kevin, Robby also has to make the commitment to wear a third hat: driver coach. Does Robby have the patience? Does Kevin have tough skin not to take the genetic insults personally? Time will tell.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Kozlowski on
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What's a genetic insult?
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Permalink Reply by Craig Veld on
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Hendrick did not build his Empire over night Robby Is in it for the long haul lets see where it go's, way to go RGM.
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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on
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Hendrick drove in 2 career races! Rather have Robby drive then own, and Hendrick own then drive.
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Permalink Reply by Ray Estrada on
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Well for what it's worth we switched from TEC (HBFuller) materials to MAPEI in support of RGM . www.orangecountytile.net
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Permalink Reply by Saluki7 on
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I'd rather have Robby be a good driver than a sales guy, but if this in anyway helps his team start performing in 2011 that is good with me, also I guess he really didn't have any other options left except for to park it.
I just hope they can keep the 7 car in the top 35, those junk transmissions at the glen really killed a good buffer for points.
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Permalink Reply by Patrick G . on
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Love it , Sounds Great Thank You For Posting This .
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Permalink Reply by Bob Wiland on
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WTF CONWAY!!????????????????????????????
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