Robby not racing at New Hampshire?

Nascar.com is reporting that Robby has decided not to run next weekend at New Hampshire because of lack of sponsorship. Robby Gordon Motorsports will be running a car with P.J. Jones only. Is this true!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 20, 2010 at 11:29pm

The original plan for 2010 was to only run a handful of races. maybe 12-15 total. RG has already run more than he was going to previously run, and there are a bunch more races he is going to run,so it could be worse. When $$ doesnt come in as promised, there is only so much you can do.

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Permalink Reply by Alex on June 20, 2010 at 11:31pm

Very ture, and RG will be back at Daytona. And this is true about putting PJ in the car, if he indeed is going to run more races in a 2nd car this is an opportune time to get him some seat time.

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Permalink Reply by Karen on June 20, 2010 at 11:31pm

If they are going through all the effort to take a car to NH - why not let PJ run the whole race? At the very least he can help preserve some of the points gained this weekend. Cannot see any benefit of all the expense to take the car up there just to S&P it.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 20, 2010 at 11:34pm

it costs 'x' amount of dollars to run an entire race. Robby already has everything in place to run a car this weekend and make money doing it the way he has to do it. End of the day, it is a business.

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Permalink Reply by wilks7 on June 20, 2010 at 11:31pm

its a rollercoaster ride.....hopefully somebody will step up with the almighty $$$$

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 20, 2010 at 11:36pm

Former cup champions cant get funding....its a tough sell right now. But there are prospects out there , so things can change at any given moment.

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Permalink Reply by Brett Crawford on June 20, 2010 at 11:42pm

Teams with former cup champions sill show up with that former cup champion driving though. How on earth do you expect to attract a sponsor when the driver can't be bothered to show up to race? I guess it just "Is what it is"...

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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on June 21, 2010 at 12:15am

I am sure it bothers Robby.

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Permalink Reply by RG4ME on June 20, 2010 at 11:37pm

Momentum is everything. Monster got a lot of valuable press coverage this week and it'll continue into next week. Maybe they'll see the light and throw some more sponsorship into the #7.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 20, 2010 at 11:40pm

of course, always a chance to call an audible.

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Permalink Reply by Ed Fifield on June 20, 2010 at 11:39pm

As a start and park. RGM may loose up to about 20 points per race. However, with the 71 in the same boat, this will be an interesting race as to who can find the funding to run more races between those two. It would be nice to see one of the 36 or 37th place cars not qualifying.

Ed