2009 Chicagoland Race Weekend Discussion

Join in and discuss all the weekend action from Chicagoland Speedway(Joliet,IL) . Robby Gordon will be running the Jim Beam Red Stag/Kid Rock Toyota. On track action begins on Thursday, July 9th , with practice running from 5:00-6:30pm/et, live on SPEED. Qualifying is on Thursday, July 9th , at 8:40 pm/et also live on SPEED. There are two practice sessions on Friday, July 10th,from 5:00-5:45pm/et and from 6:20-7:20pm/et , both live on SPEED. Raceday coverage begins on Saturday night, July 11th, at 6:30pm/et, live on TNT,with the green flag scheduled to drop at 8:16pm/et.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on July 9, 2009 at 9:54pm
yup. they were hooked up.
Permalink Reply by Saluki7 on July 9, 2009 at 10:13pm
he will be lapped by lap 70, another back of the pack run for the 7 car.
Permalink Reply by TOG on July 9, 2009 at 10:16pm
Did you make it to the trailer ?
Permalink Reply by Nitrosnoopy on July 9, 2009 at 10:17pm
Well starting in the back could be good as that dumb!@! Scott Speed will start a wreck
Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on July 9, 2009 at 11:00pm
vickers bashed speed and kyle bush a little on sirius today, i laughed a little
Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on July 10, 2009 at 10:07pm
Last time Vickers bashed his teammates he was out of a job. Speed is here because the OWNER OF RED BULL likes him and thinks highly of him, and thinks that he represents the product well.
Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on July 10, 2009 at 10:09pm
Don't you know anything! Speed sucks! In the races they have raced against each other, RG fucking KILLS Speed! Speed only averages a 30th place finish, but RG is up in 27th man! TWENTY FUCKING SEVENTH!!

Wait, is Speed showing signs of improving? Along with a team that is clearly improving? Man, what's that gonna get him? A front row start?!?!?!
Permalink Reply by Charlie on July 9, 2009 at 11:25pm
poor starting spot, but i'm betting robby and the team gets it figured out for the race.

on another note, did anybody go to the trailer and how was it if you did? i know that has been a big discussion the past couple of weeks on here.
Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on July 10, 2009 at 8:38am
All we need to do is fix the misfire. The car will be fine and move up during the first run....and once the first yellow flies we'll be sitting 27-35th on the lead lap and with DF restarts we should be OK.

I'm expecting a top 25.
Permalink Reply by wilks7 on July 10, 2009 at 9:41am
hopefully they can get the "misfire" fixed and get a good practice in or we will be hosed come sat nite!!
Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on July 10, 2009 at 10:08am
Hopefully the race won't be as boring as in the past... we now have Double File "Shootout-Style" Restarts, TNT DRAMA style! (LOL!)
Permalink Reply by Mike/WC77 on July 10, 2009 at 11:15am

Allright guys here's what I can tell you about yesterday. First off, it was a long day for the 7 team. Rob was in & out of the garage multiple times during practice. Apparently they unloaded with something wrong under the hood. Rob was complaning about the car misfiring almost immediately. He said the car was setup great, but the motor sucked. So they went back in the garage,& changed the carb. Came back out, got up to speed,(sort of) & the f-bombs started flying. By the time this was all done, so was practice. Before qual's they threw another carb at it (waste of time imo),& changed some ignition parts. The car pretty obviously had some fire (ign) problems, so I don't really understand either carb swap, but whatev. They went back out for quals,& seemingly didn't find the issue.
I saw a post from mojoman in thisthread stating the engine tuner they have is good. Well, he sucks at diagnosing issues. I hope somebody can figure out wtf is up with this thing. A motor swap won't fix it either if the issue is in the wiring, or ign box.

Weather for today doesn't look too good. High of 82 today, humid with storms moving in, some "may be severe".

I'ma give that twitpic thing another shot now. So I'll catch up with you guys in a bit.
In the meantime, I'll add the pics I took yesterday to my page.

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