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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 Bigzoom on
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He chose that name because Kevin Conway was taken by the actor, same as www.kevinconway.com. The (Nascar) Kevin Conway chose to go with Extenzeracing as his Twitter name and website.
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Permalink Reply by MerlotMax on
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Did you check out the You Tube link - Mario goes to NASCAR & wins in the # 7 SpeedFactory.TV - Extenze Racing Camry. Man the kid was quick on the decals!
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sweeney on
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thats awesome!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on
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What in the world is going on there.... with this kid...WILd
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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That is a prime example of why most twitter feeds need to be left where they were found,and left between the 2 parties that they were intended for.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Stone on
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That's about a Trick Frickin' Helmet on Conways Twitter page!!
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Permalink Reply by Curt on
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I just hope Robby runs the road courses and the big tracks, and maybe Indy open wheels. That's all I care to watch.
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Permalink Reply by marc stein on
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ROBBY --) You drive the car---) forget the other guy---) you are the man
You know this better then anyone else you just need better funding and better motors etc.
Don't quit driving, we all know and not news to you that with bad equipment no matter what the series or sport or the right funding you end up with weak results and running in the back of the pack.
No one is quiting you Robby, we are full force behind you and feel badly knowing that you are not used to running the back in off-road series after series but Nascar appears to be so loopsided that you have no choice to be in the back (other teams have the funding, team support, and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to buy the best in motor's, set ups etc.
ROBBY Don't quit and don't put these other guys in YOUR CAR personal car--just have your marketing team get you the $$$ and the backing so you can focus on driving and winning or at least back to the front 1/3 of the field not the back of the field,
Marc
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