Top 35 Bubble Showdown (Wed - New Updates)

The Bubble Teams:

TRG - Andy Lally, (Bobby Labonte @ Texas) (Hermie Sadler @ Martinsville) +20 points over 36th

RGM - Robby Gordon & Kevin Conwy +5 points over 36th place

FRM - David Gilliland, Travis Kvapil, Tony Raines & Dave Blaney - 5 points behind 35th place

Team Updates:

Robby has raced at Martinsville 20 times. Average Start:31.7 Average Finish:34.6 (statistically his worse track)

Kevin Conway has raced at Martinsville 1 time. Started 32nd, Finished 31st

FRONT ROW MOTORSPORTS

Gilliland has raced Martinsville 8 times. Avg Start: 29.9 Avg Finish: 30.25

Kvapil has raced Martinsville 9 times. Avg Start: 22.6 Avg Finish: 27.78

Blaney has raced Martinsville 19 times. Avg Start: 24.8 Avg Finish: 31.37

The Racers Group (TRG Motorsports)

Hermie Sadler [current SPEED reporter and part time NASCAR driver] will run the #71 TRG Motorsports Chevy at Martinsville Speedway on October 24th.

What's at stake?

Daytona guarantee starting spot: Pays between $250,000 - $1.5 Million

Guarantee starting spot the first 5 races of 2011 (New Schedule)

Daytona, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Bristol & Fontana

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Permalink Reply by Ernie Stratton on October 18, 2010 at 2:01pm

It is the race within the race,and all involved will do thier best to be there.

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Permalink Reply by kevin dinsmore on October 18, 2010 at 2:22pm

i like the fact that their testing......it's expensive, i hope the results will show it. The other teams have me a bit concerned there's alot of info and car prep. help available from RCR and Roush/Yates. It should be an interesting finish.

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Permalink Reply by Brett Crawford on October 18, 2010 at 2:48pm

Of those three teams, I don't have a ton of confidence for either RGM or the #71 if they have to qualify on speed for future races.

Also don't like the fact that RGM is up against the resources or MUCH larger teams backing/assisting their closest competitors...

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Permalink Reply by TOG on October 18, 2010 at 2:56pm

So should they quit ? Give up ? nah.....get the cars better,go test, drop the trailer at martinsville & get the best finish possible on Sunday & see where they stand when the checkered flag drops.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sweeney on October 18, 2010 at 4:48pm

Heres to that!

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Permalink Reply by Brett Crawford on October 18, 2010 at 7:16pm

No TOG they shouldn't, and I never said they should. I'll toe the company line, so "all is good"

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Permalink Reply by vak7 on October 19, 2010 at 4:33pm

He's ALWAYS up against much larger teams backing others. The little guy standing tall against all odds. Let's hear it for the little guy!! Martinsville has always been bad to us. Not a good track to race so close in points. So we're all going to have to get over it and keep on truckin'...

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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on October 18, 2010 at 3:00pm

So any chance of 2 cars at Martinsville? Another audible? or just give KC the best you got and hope for the best?

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Permalink Reply by nathen coomes on October 18, 2010 at 5:45pm

Maybe I am slow... But with things being this tight is there any reason at all that RG should not be behind the wheel the rest of the way? I want to support KC, however above all I am RGM fan; but come on, the guy is not ready; thats been shown to be true. We need to be in the top 35, and like those other teams who need to be, we need to pull out the big guns, and in our case its not help from a multi million dollar team, our big gun is RG. He is what we have. We will see....