#7 Quaker State Darlington Southern 500 presented by Camile Towe
Pre Race Report

• Green machine comes through - Robby Gordon Motorsports turned a fortnight’s worth of bad luck into pay dirt last week as the team fought hard for a lead-lap 16th place run at Richmond. Keeping with the green is gold strategy, the #7 Toyota will be sporting the same winning design with sponsor Quaker State on the hood for Saturday night’s race at Darlington Raceway.

• Our Own Ms. Camile Towe wins GoDaddy.com contest – Taking Crown Royal’s approach to naming races after deserving fans, GoDaddy.com held their own contest to select a NASCAR enthusiast to serve as official race host. However, in what has become a tradition in GoDaddy marketing, their competition focused not on intellectual savvy, but instead on female physical attributes. Judges for the competition included noted female expert Perez Hilton, businessman Donald Trump, and self-proclaimed hound dog and full-time tipsy actor David Hasselhoff.

• Fox Sports mascot “Digger” refuses drug test – In a decision that has caused controversy within NASCAR’s governing body and the animated character community, “Digger”, the loveable track-side gofer and noted fraidy cat, has refused to take a Fox Sports-mandated urine analysis test for human growth hormone. In a prepared statement, Digger confirmed his refusal to submit to testing citing religious beliefs. L.A. Dodger Manny Ramirez was sympathetic to Digger’s cause. “Jue know, had I taken Deeger’s lead, I might still be playin’ besball today.”

Robby Gordon quotes: “Well we dodged another bad-luck bullet on Saturday night when we lost the power steering belt. But the boys did a good job of getting the car squared away and we had a great finish. Meanwhile, I look forward to seeing my good friend Camile at the race this coming Saturday and checking out her….toes.”

Kirk Almquist quotes: “What can I say, the crew performed magnificently on Saturday and I expect the same level of professionalism this week. I know many of RG’s fans are trying to vote him into the All-Star race in two weeks. In between pit stops and counting off lap times, I’ll be clicking away on NASCAR.com to get us into the event. Does anyone have a good macro they can suggest? I haven’t used my index finger this much since that night in high school at Inspiration Point with Maggie from drama class.”