Does Robby himself ever come on here and defend himself?

I wish I could hear Robby give us an excuse for whats going on with his results

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by TeamMMR.com on July 12, 2009 at 3:51pm

Id suggest you spend the $14.95 and get the scanner for the rest of the season from Nascar.com. The guy shouldn't have to come explain himself to any of us. We are fans, not sponsors, let him save the explanations for them. If you know anything about RG, you know it must eat him alive to run poorly.

Speaking only in regards to last night, I would much prefer we break a part while running mid pack rather than never be close to mid pack and run the whole night in 34th. Seems to me last year that was the case at some tracks.

I hate to say "baby steps" going on the teams 4th year. After alot of shakeups (some RG induced, some not) I feel like for the first time in a while progress is being made and the team is going forward. Before you even ask, that stupid arrow car had nothing to do with it either.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Mouseking7 on July 12, 2009 at 4:10pm

Very well said!!!! Robby knows what he is doing here! We either support HIS decisions, OR, we move on!!! I am behind him all the way!!! He is running better than his finishes show! Keep at it Robby!!!!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on July 12, 2009 at 10:16pm

Gotta walk before you can run....

But for that to even make sense now, the car really needs to be running up in the mid to upper 20s....

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by DB on July 12, 2009 at 4:49pm

Hopefully he has better, more important things to do. Building a team, business, it don't happen over night as we all know. Granted it's been 5-6 years, I'm sure he's working is A#$ off and thinking big picture, just got to be patient, or treat it like TV, change the channel-mine's stuck though!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on July 12, 2009 at 7:34pm

The only reason that Richard Chilress's team started to take off is he hired some guy named Ricky Rudd for two years (1982-83) and some guy named Dale after that... Even so, Richard didn't start to run two cars on a consistant basis until 1997 (he started running his team full-time in 1976). Here's the other thing, Richard didn't have to worry about running an off-road program and a Dakar campaign at the same time. That said, I think Robby is doing pretty darn well running his own shop for the first 4.5 years. Oh wouldn't it be great if some rich dude came along and gave RGM a shit load of money and said "here you go now go to town no strings attached." But in this economy that isn't going to happen. Even if it did, I don't think RG would be able to accept it. He wants to do it his way, and more power to him. Things are getting better. There is evidence of this. The cup cars have had a terrible string of bad luck this year. But Toyota seems to be the answer, and the Triad powerplants are doing great. The fact that the cup program is still racing week in and week out is quite the accomplishment. How many teams have come and gone since 2005? The off-road program is at the top of it's game and the Dakar program is reaching another level. How many cup teams can make that statement? Give up on Robby? No way!!