Robby Gordon to run grand-am race on July 4th ?

While watching the Rolex car series race on SPEED TV today, it was mentioned that Robby Gordon will run the grand-am race at Daytona on July 4th, before the cup race later that same evening. So a double-header for Robby Gordon on July 4th. Stay tuned for more details.

*** UPDATE ****

Robby will NOT be running the grand-am race this weekend.

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Permalink Reply by Karen on June 23, 2009 at 6:45pm

I don't see how he can do it! All that time in a hot race car - ugh. I thought I would roast to death at Daytona last year and I was just drinking beer and watching the festivities :-)

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Permalink Reply by C2B on June 23, 2009 at 8:17pm

Remember, he is a trained professional. He drives, you drink beer. We all have to know our roles.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on June 23, 2009 at 8:31pm

I've been in training for years, and will be participating this Sunday. Let's see if I can bring home the beer drinking trophy!

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Permalink Reply by bighead on June 24, 2009 at 9:17am

Sounds Like "MAN" Training to me......

"MAN" Training like this is alot like Karate Training..In Karate you have green, brown, and balck belts...In "MAN" training the belts go like 30, 32, 34, 36, and so on until you get ten sizes bigger than when you were 25.....Alan4s you are not alone in this venture................

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Permalink Reply by R Nadeau on June 23, 2009 at 9:13pm

YeeHaw.....should be lottsa fun in Daytona. I can't wait for the fun to begin.
Will be in the Grand-Am garage pre-race and be watching near RC turn one.

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Permalink Reply by xcmtb on June 23, 2009 at 10:12pm

I like the "running with Bill Lester" angle here - anyone know about the connection between RG and Bill?

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Permalink Reply by Keith on June 24, 2009 at 8:36am

A scan over all the different associated racing sites still shows no official entry as of this post.

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Permalink Reply by Noah Robby's Biggest Little Fan on June 24, 2009 at 2:02pm

will that race be on tv?

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Permalink Reply by MikeNIN7 on June 24, 2009 at 2:14pm

All the Grand-Am races are on speed.

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Permalink Reply by Teddy Walters on June 27, 2009 at 7:26pm

I heard this last week. I have heard nothing confirmed though (fingers crossed). I'd like to see him run during the cup weekend at Watkins Glen as well!

Teddy

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Permalink Reply by zoomsss on June 27, 2009 at 9:53pm

GEAR GNASHING

... ROBBY AIN’T, MEA CULPA

Preceding the 2003 Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International (as it will again Aug. 7), the Rolex Series Daytona Prototype was in its inaugural season and darn near gridding The Crown Royal 200 race when Robby Gordon at the last minute decided to go DP racing in the No. 3 Cegwa Sport Toyota-FABCAR DP of owner/driver Darius Grala and co-driver RJ Valentine.

Getting a seat-insert fitted while the No. 3 headed for the grid, Gordon hopped into a spare but fully outfitted FABCAR brought to the race by FABCAR owner Dave Klym. While the foam hardened, Gordon used the time to familiarize himself with the car’s switches, pedal positions, gearbox shifter, etc.

Taking over in midrace, all eyes were on the first turn one lap later when Gordon at full song took the hard right-hander tight on the inside line with a bevy of other cars around him. He didn’t miss a lick.

Before he climbed from the car at shift’s end - typically Robby, grinning impishly from ear to ear - Gordon had set the race’s fast lap, which no one in that race would surpass. And Gordon at that time had never so much as driven any DP for any distance whatever before driving away from the Cegwa Racing pits. Two days later Gordon also won The Glen’s Sprint Cup race. Maybe he was on a roll.

Still, that Rolex Series race at The Glen easily resides high on this writer’s best-ever racing remembrances and it likely got in the way when this writer in his last post stated Robby Gordon would on July 4 (for you, MC) be running a DP at Daytona International Speedway.

Though based on reasonably credible information that previously held otherwise, Gordon won’t be in the July 4 Brumos 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

For having earlier stated the opposite, I apologize. For having wanted to again see Gordon in a DP, I ain’t apologizing.

The way things are going, I’ll at any time probably also be retracting any and all recent “Garcia and Rice Together Again” stories, too.

So, then, while on a “roll,” let’s just throw out something like “IMS” and let everyone else run with it. Some say certain others in this biz recently did so on another front. Albeit, certainly a more “prominent” front. For now.