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 FlyHiFlyLo on June 21, 2010 at 3:01pm

Too bad 4-Wheel parts doesn't see the value in a partial funding of some races. I mean it's not like NASCAR fans don't own trucks.

Especially if it was a co-op with Speed Factory... Afterall, half of Speed Factory is covering their off-road efforts.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on June 21, 2010 at 3:06pm

So true. We don't have any deserts up here, but there's a shitload of snow in the winter, and mud in the fall and spring. Tons of 4-wheel drive trucks all over the place up here.

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Permalink Reply by WJM on June 21, 2010 at 3:11pm

Hey you two, stop making sense!

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Permalink Reply by Nena on June 21, 2010 at 3:16pm

This is heart breaking! :(

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Permalink Reply by WJM on June 21, 2010 at 3:28pm

Heart breaking would be closing the shop. This is a bump in the road.

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Permalink Reply by Keith on June 21, 2010 at 3:18pm

I've heard it mentioned other places that NHS is a hard race to sell sponsorship. Just noticed that there is only 42 entries for the NNS race.

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on June 21, 2010 at 3:34pm

With Danica in town, and with a such a male dominated sport, you would think Kleenex would want to be at the track....LMAO

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on June 21, 2010 at 3:38pm

I've heard that too, but don't really understand it. The track is out in the sticks, and the traffic sucks on race day, but I don't think that's too different from a lot of the other tracks on the circuit. The races have almost always sold out - 100,000 or so capacity. It draws fans from all of New England, as well as NY and Canada.

Can anyone explain the problem?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 21, 2010 at 3:44pm

Companies have ad budgets and they stick to them. What we see as " it's only 1 more race, should be easy for a company to add " , they see it differently.

On a side note, I have been working with a few companies that are going to break into racing this weekend & next weekend in the K & N filters series. Much cheaper to do, but hopefully it leads to their involvement into the next level, and RG is included in those plans if they elect to take it up a notch.