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Robby Gordon plans to have Kevin Conway in car rest of year while working on 2011 program
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Robby Gordon hopes to have a deal done soon to have Kevin Conway drive a Robby Gordon Motorsports car the rest of the season and possibly next year.
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
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Permalink Reply by Garrett Gleason on
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Robby has guts so it would not suprising if he went to daytona and tried to qualify on time. I say take two cars to daytona regardless. Big pay day plus what has RG always needed at the plate tracks? A teammate.
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Permalink Reply by Tooltime on
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Ive actually met and worked with Kevin a number of times. He can wheel a car!Kevin is a nice guy, and is marketable. Look what Robby did with that ungrateful Andy McMillan in the TT. Any is on fire. And I really hate to admit that! Robby knows what he is doing im sure. Just my .02
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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Put the top 35 points on the 07 for 2011
(unless NASCAR makes up a rule that would prevent the points swapping before then)
I don't think any deal says Kevin gets the 7 and only a 7
This board puts the cart so far before the horse too often just go with it for a while. Nothing we have counted on this year as fans has come true ...fully. That's racin man thats what can happen, Robby runs the show so watch. I thought for sure i'd feel upset about this whole deal but i'm not so anal I can't see the benefits of a possible season ending sponsorship run for "the team". Are you part of "this team" I am so lets give three cheers for ..................okay that might be going too far but hell lets see what happens after lets say 3 more races.
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,”
Quote from Robby.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Shelton on
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Maybe it's Elliot Stadler,
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wow, that's some doom and gloom, i think we'll have lots to complain about next year with RGM and NASCAR.
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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on
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(Off Subject but very funny) FROM JJ Yeley's TWITTER - "Speaking of getting it in the balls, I am being replaced by McDowell in the 46 car...I guess @ss kissing really is good for something =)
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Permalink Reply by ali on
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Like RG stated "He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.” when he was at FRM they did nothing to help his confidence. when he would mention something about the car, the Crew Chief and Car Chief would laugh at him. He ran with both Kvapil and Gilly yet he is the one who gets talked bad about. He is doing what needs to be done, racing clean and finishing races. he had 3 DNF's this season, while some of the big names had more. He gave FRM their BEST finish ever at Daytona, even Andretti couldnt get that done for them. RG can help Kevin and already the vibe with the team is a complete 180 from how it was for him at FRM. people need to give him a chance.
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I think most people are very intrigued to see the progression of KC's career now that he is with RGM. While a few will never embrace it, the majority will.Not so long ago RG entered nascar and he had as many critics as KC does.
The future of the race team, including the races RG will run , will only get better with this new situation.
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