2009 Richmond Race Weekend Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the weekend activities at Richmond for Robby Gordon. Here is the schedule for the weekend,all times eastern standard. First practice is on Friday at 12:00pm, followed by happy hour at 2:00pm both on SPEED. Qualifying is Friday at 5:30pm, also on SPEED. The race is on Saturday ,May 2nd at 7:00 pm. Don't forget live chat on Saturday, beginning at 3:00pm. (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 Davin Wilson on May 1, 2009 at 6:16pm

P-22 so far..........

Permalink Reply by Goody on May 1, 2009 at 6:21pm

Robby's up, cut to commercial.

Permalink Reply by brian campbell on May 1, 2009 at 7:02pm

starting in the back

Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on May 1, 2009 at 9:04pm

Lapped by 40

Permalink Reply by Bricoop on May 1, 2009 at 8:27pm

Not a huge deal, my guess is his car is set up to race b/c final prac. was before qualifying. Here's to a lot of cautions(unlikely) and a top 25.

Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on May 1, 2009 at 9:07pm

Yes, it is a huge deal.

The team can't qualify.

RG is DEAD LAST among drivers to start all events.

RG is barely hanging on to the top 35. People want to pretend that is a non-issue with the size of the qualifying fields, but lets go back to the fact that they CAN'T QUALIFY. Add on that the 600 will have a decent size field? Speed is starting in a good position and he and his team are IMPROVING?

I'm not saying RG is going to fall out of the top 35 in the next two weeks, but no one should be surprised if it happens. And I'm not saying that falling out will lead to a DNQ at the 600, but no one should be surprised if it happens.

Permalink Reply by Kevin Sweeney on May 1, 2009 at 9:39pm

agreed

Permalink Reply by alan4s on May 1, 2009 at 9:59pm

Let's say you could make a very decent living doing something really fun, and employ a number of people at the same time. Pretty much getting paid for playing really hard. Let's say you could do this for several years, maybe much longer, and just have a blast doing it. It's work, but fun work, and it pays for itself and keeps you pretty comfortable too. Because of how you choose to do it, you're not the best, and maybe not even as good as you could be if you gave up some control.

Would you do it?

I sure as hell would.

Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on May 1, 2009 at 10:03pm

Unless Chip Ganassi or Roger Penske is going to throw him in a car he has no chance to win Indy coming from no where, pushing 40 years old, not having run OW cars full time in a decade,

He could maybe put in a competative run with AGR or Newman-Haas, but beyond that he is too far removed from the cars to come in with one of these field filler teams and do anything different in IndyCar than he is doing in Cup with his own team right now.

He'd be better servered to just run SCORE and BITD full time along with whatever Rally-Raid events Hummer will fund.

Permalink Reply by Jaci on May 1, 2009 at 10:39pm