Robby not racing at New Hampshire?

Nascar.com is reporting that Robby has decided not to run next weekend at New Hampshire because of lack of sponsorship. Robby Gordon Motorsports will be running a car with P.J. Jones only. Is this true!

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Permalink Reply by Karen on June 21, 2010 at 9:00pm

In addition to selling the Planet Robby shirts to raise money - I would like to see some racing sheet metal for sale. I have a spot that would look great with the side of Robby's Sonoma car hanging there.

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Permalink Reply by robbyfansinceimsa on June 21, 2010 at 9:18pm

I think the main savings on a S&P team is you can use the engines, and transmissions more than once. The tires are probably 2100 a pitstop. I thought the fuel was free but I am probably wrong. As long as NASCAR pays you to show up and not race the S&P's will surely continue. They only need to restructure the purse and no more start and parks.

matt

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Permalink Reply by rpmscott on June 21, 2010 at 10:47pm

Nascar has a contract to have 43 cars at each race. thats why you will always have S and P's

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Permalink Reply by MikeNIN7 on June 22, 2010 at 4:49am

If the S and P teams all say f it and strike for 1 race nascar might do a better job of revenue shareing. It would be that or lose a lot of cash for braking there T.V. deals.

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Permalink Reply by ShaneH on June 22, 2010 at 8:31am

Some of you don't see the big picture. The cost to run a car the entire race is far from 15k. I don't know what Robby has to pay for engines, but teams generally pay between $75-85 THOUSAND per race for a top flight engine lease. The lease is prorated down based on the number of laps run in total. Then you have $3k-6k in inspection fees. Just the costs for the car for a full race would be over $100k. And that doesn't include the actual car, team and logistics, which has to come out of a budget somewhere. Even running 30 laps and taking 43rd place $, RG is in the hole.

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Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on June 22, 2010 at 8:36am

What's the old adage....

How do you end up with a small fortune in Nascar?

Start out with a big one! lol

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Permalink Reply by Mouseking7 on June 22, 2010 at 10:19am

I used to piss and moan about NO souvy trailer in NH, guess I shouldn't have, cause now we have NO DRIVER as well!!! SOOOOO SAAAAAAAD!!!! BUT, the HOM party goes on!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 22, 2010 at 10:29am

The souvenir trailer doesnt go to 80% of the tracks,including Dover.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on June 22, 2010 at 10:55am

Seeing is believing. I don't think this souvenir trailer everyone talks about even exists. Is it parked at the North Pole?

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 22, 2010 at 10:56am

It was parked at Infineon this weekend. Next to the Ferris wheel. Was only on TV about 200 times this past weekend.

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Permalink Reply by Mouseking7 on June 22, 2010 at 11:06am

IF that is indeed true, I guess I would just put the stuff strictly online, as it appears that it is just not a cost effective measure anymore to have it at the tracks!!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 22, 2010 at 11:25am

It's cost effective for the tracks they do take it to. Obviously they have all the past figures to justify where and when they take the trailer to. Dale Jr used to have 6 trailers at a race. I think its down to maybe 2 now.Maybe tracks will stat to drop the fee it costs to park a trailer in the future, but its also a business for the tracks too.