2009 Martinsville Race Weekend Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the weekend activities at Martinsville for Robby Gordon. Here is the schedule for the weekend,all times eastern standard. First practice is on Friday at 12:00pm, followed by Qualifying at 3:30pm both on SPEED. There will be 2 practices on Saturday at 10:30am and 11:50am also on SPEED. The race is on Sunday ,March 29th at 1:30 pm. Don't forget live chat every Sunday, from 10am-10pm. (Live chat is a popular feature,but for those who don't care for it,please continue to post your thoughts right here on raceday.)

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Permalink Reply by MerlotMax on March 29, 2009 at 3:44pm

At least he has had more camera time today. Just trying to keep positive.

Permalink Reply by Jan on March 29, 2009 at 3:45pm

this time its a left front-RG thinks its because they were running too low pressure in the left sides--he called back in to Kirk & wants 3 lbs added to the pressures they had been running.
Theyre adjusting a set & RG will come back in again

Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on March 29, 2009 at 3:46pm

Hopefully, they're testing ...

Permalink Reply by Shop Goddess on March 29, 2009 at 3:51pm

if he can't race they might as well test

Permalink Reply by Jan on March 29, 2009 at 3:57pm

since going back out RG is cornering much better & has actually passed several. Maybe the added pressure is balancing the front end better since the pressure is already higher on the rt front with no bead blower- it seems to helped him though-
RG just called in & said that its pretty good now with the adjustments theyve made--hopefully theyve learned something with this for sure Bigzoom
2 laps ago his lap speed was 90.02 and everybody else was running 89 s so maybe they found something.

Permalink Reply by Lance on March 29, 2009 at 3:53pm

Man it never fails. We look like champs most places but when we come to Martinsville we might as well be a start and park. Oh well, on to Texas.

Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on March 29, 2009 at 3:59pm

Robby - "Kirk, I think we're pretty good now."
Kirk- "Your the fastest car on the track, have no idea why we keep popping tires."

Last 4 laps - Robby was the fastest car on the track.

Permalink Reply by Shop Goddess on March 29, 2009 at 4:02pm

too little too late

Permalink Reply by Jason on March 29, 2009 at 4:03pm

Well no shit he was. He had 100 lap fresher tires than 90% of the field. Either way he's terrible and should stick to racing in the dirt.

Permalink Reply by Shop Goddess on March 29, 2009 at 4:05pm

harsh

Permalink Reply by Lance on March 29, 2009 at 4:05pm

No offense but I'm tired of hearing that. It's a load of crap. Having 100 + laps fresher tires should mean that you are the fastest car. Besides, last time I checked this is Nascar, which doesn't give any points for fast laps. I know its not only Robby's team that says that, EVERYONE says that all the time. It's cheesy to tell someone how fast they are when they are running 35th.

Permalink Reply by Lance on March 29, 2009 at 4:12pm

Just to expand on this, the 7 has one of the slowest fastest laps of the race, only the 36, 34,41, 64, and 66 have slower fastest laps.