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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 7gason7 on
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Maybe a win lose at best. Win RGM stays afloat. Lose RG is not in the car full time.
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Permalink Reply by Hmsdude24 on
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Yes because now RGM as a whole has some backing and next year when Robby wants to run the races he is planning on doing he will have enough funding to run full races.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Kozlowski on
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One thing you can't argue is that Kevin Conway is the hardest driver out there.
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Permalink Reply by natron008 on
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I'm all for anything RG wants to do in this sport. He's already proven to everyone that he's an absolute competitor and has stayed afloat when countless others couldn't. Perhaps he's looking at a strong start to 2011 and a true two-car operation. Everyone knows that's been one of the biggest set-backs in his venture (the lack of information, compared to multi-car teams).
New, young drivers are getting ALL of the sponsorship attention these days and aligning yourself with one seems like an obvious good move (especially one that is already bringing in sponsorship $).
Also, you have to thin long-term and the fact that RG is building a program that can continue on without him behind the wheel every week. As fans, we should get to see him doing even more of what he loves, and continuing to build his legacy.
From my POV, this is all just great strategy and proves that he's not content to just sit back and battle for top the 35 spot. He wants to build something real. Gas on Robby, and gas on RGM!
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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on
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(Off Topic) If you haven't been following the Nasty JJ Yelley departure from the 46 team...it's quite interesting. JJ was informed he was being replaced after missing the race at Bristol by Michael McDowell...what makes it real interesting is...JJ posted on Twitter that he hasn't heard from the owner at all, just been told his services were no longer needed. When he went by the shop to get his personal belongings, he finds out the team is switching from Dodge to Chevy with a better engine package. JJ posted "We found out after Nascar did the engine tests our engines were almost 40-60 HP behind most." JJ is upset that he's been in poor equipment trying to make the race, the team swaps over to better stuff but replaces him with McDowell...he also added I guess @ss kissing does count! (Ouch!)
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Permalink Reply by Brett Crawford on
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Personally, JJ comes across as a spoiled 3 year old with his tweets.
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Permalink Reply by Garrett Gleason on
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I was never a big JJ Yeley fan but he did a great job in that 46 considering the resources.
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