2010 Auto Club 500 Race Weekend Discussion

Join in here and discuss all the practice & race action for the 2010 Auto Club 500. Robby
Gordon will be running the #7 Warner Music / Whitney Duncan Toyota. Here is the weekend schedule for RGM at the California track.

FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 19th

Practice 3:00 - 4:30 pm/et ( 38th Quickest )
Qualifying 6:30 - 8:30 pm/et ( 40th Quickest )

SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 20th

Practice 2:30 - 3:15 pm/et ( 41st Quickest )
Practice 3:45 - 4:50 pm/et ( 38th Quickest )

SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 21st

Auto Club 500 3:00 pm/et , green flag at 3:19 pm/et ( Finished 33rd )

Dont forget live raceday chat will be available,as well as live twitter feeds from the track.

Garagecam from FONTANA

Practice Live Leaderboard

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on February 19, 2010 at 7:57pm

just saw the lap..cant say the car looked loose or tight...just seems like it had no power? weird...

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 19, 2010 at 7:58pm

thinking the same thing.

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on February 19, 2010 at 8:00pm

yeah...no bobbles...just seemed to be a limp engine to me...I have a funny feeling you can get the scoop on that! :)

or conversely..Robby knew the car handled so poorly he wasnt going full titlt....thus it looked like it handled okay...

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Permalink Reply by Matt on February 19, 2010 at 7:59pm

Nah, if you watched the tracker he lost all of his time in the turns, didnt drop much time on the straights.

Thats a frustrating (and hard to fix) problem when your car has a good balance on track but is just that slow...

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Permalink Reply by Missy7 on February 19, 2010 at 7:57pm

That was ugly

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Permalink Reply by Lowbird on February 19, 2010 at 8:00pm

Got the mileage tune up in? Wrong carb?
Didn't that happen before?

The car did look real stable. Just slow.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Fair on February 19, 2010 at 8:01pm

God, what a POS. Did anyone think of "Start and Park"?

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Permalink Reply by Billy on February 19, 2010 at 8:03pm

maybe do an engine change ?

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Permalink Reply by Billy on February 19, 2010 at 8:20pm

ok it hit the splitter .... I was FOS

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Permalink Reply by Mike Loving on February 19, 2010 at 8:07pm

Is anyone else disgusted with the on track performance so far this weekend? Speeds have been pathetic at best. Lack of full time sponsor dollars for the last couple of years shows more evident with each passing week. Really sad to see a racer with the desire of Robby having to struggle so badly to even be competitive with the "also ran's" each week.

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Permalink Reply by Alex on February 19, 2010 at 8:09pm

35, 46, 90 go home

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Permalink Reply by TOG on February 19, 2010 at 8:10pm

it is what it is and there is nothing you can do about it, but either support through good and bad,or get off at the next stop:

From Robby twitter

Went into turn 1 and hit the splitter pretty hard and had to back out of it before washing up into the fence. Hopefully we'll get time tomorrow to figure it out.

Tough start to the weekend, but still time. Worst case scenario, he finishes 43rd....lol...