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Permalink Reply by Michael Kozlowski on May 26, 2011 at 2:46am

F.A.Q. #5 Is Robby racing for a good finish in this one or will it be a start & park/test?

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Permalink Reply by Bob Sadowski on May 26, 2011 at 6:48am

It will be a full race. I can't see bringing two cars to possibly park both. Its a big race on a big weekend. Put the car in the show and run it into the ground to the checkers!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Anello on May 26, 2011 at 7:45am

I will be out in Vegas this weekend and betting on the big races. Any suggestions on the Indy race? Anyways...Charlotte thread! Hope RG can get a decent qualifying spot and go from there. Till then, drink your Speed and when you run out go buy more.

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Permalink Reply by IndyTim on May 26, 2011 at 9:26am

I'd take a real strong look at Dan Wheldon.........

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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on May 29, 2011 at 6:41pm

Good call! He was one that my friends and I were talking about...

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Permalink Reply by TobaccoRoad on May 26, 2011 at 9:36am

No souvinir trailer? seriously, that sucks. Well that is $100 saved this weekend.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on May 26, 2011 at 10:13am

Out west, since Baja 500 is next week.

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Permalink Reply by jack on May 26, 2011 at 10:16am

No souvenir trailer.. don't worry folks.. just go visit the shop.. it's not far from the track.

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Permalink Reply by NIKAL on May 26, 2011 at 10:36am

Robby’s Charlotte Motor Speedway Stats;

Robby has had 21 starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He has completed 86% of the laps ran and has led 3 laps. Robby has DNF’ed 7 times, 5 due to crashes and 2 due to engine failures. Robby’s average starting position is 26th and finishing position is 28th. Robby has 1 top 5 finish, no top 10’s and has finished 20th or better 5 times. Robby has finished on the lead lap in 2 of the 21 races.

Robby’s best finish came the first Charlotte race of the 2009 season. Robby finished in 3rd place driving the RGM #7 Jim Beam / Operation Homefront Toyota.

In 21 starts RG has driven for 5 different teams at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The first being for the late Dale Earnhardt in 1996. The other teams have been Felix Sabates, John Menard/Robby Gordon, RCR and RGM. Robby has driven a Chevy 12 times, Ford 3 times, Dodge 2 times and Toyota 4 times.

Robby’s Charlotte sponsors have been Racing for Kids (DEI) Coors Light (Sabates) Team Menard (Menard/Gordon) Cingular Wireless (RCR) Fruit of the Loom, Jim Beam, Jim Beam Black, Menards MAPEI, Motorola Digital Audio Players, Menards, Jim Beam Operation Homefront, Freightliner, Robby Gordon Motorsports and Extenze (RGM)

Fun Fact;

Dale Earnhardt started DEI in 1996 and the team’s first race was the October 6th 1996 UAW-GM Quality 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Dale Sr. hired Robby Gordon to be the driver for DEI’s first race. The car was the #14 Racing for Kids Chevy. Robby qualified the #14 Chevy in 13th place and at lap 206 Robby was in an accident with John Andretti who was driving the #98 RCA Ford for Cale Yarborough. Robby finished in 38th place.

The DEI #14 was raced 2 more times in 1996 and driven by Jeff Green. In 1997 Steve Park drove the #14 with Burger King sponsorship 5 times. In 1998 the DEI #14 was changed to the #1 Pennzoil car and was driven full time by Steve Park.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Kozlowski on May 26, 2011 at 12:51pm

Fun flashback:
RGM's first season in Nextel Cup was 2005, and it couldn't have gotten off to a worse start. Robby failed to qualify for the Daytona 500, Bristol, and Darlington, and almost all of the races he did make ended when his Menards engine blew up. By the time the All-Star Race came around Robby had already fired his 1st crew chief...

Although the Nextel Open was only 30 laps, it was long enough for Robby and new crew chief Greg Erwin to discover that they actually had a fast car. There weren't enough laps for Robby to overcome a poor qualifying result, but there were enough for them to realize they needed to bring this car back a week later...

A week later the Coke 600 again began with a poor qualifying result for Robby, but the difference was this time he had 400 laps to make up for it. After falling a couple of laps down in the daytime Robby's car came to life as the sun went down, and under the lights got 2 lucky dog awards partly in thanks to the NASCAR all-time record for cautions being broken (resulting from SMI's decision to "levegate," or, "repave with nails" the racing surface at Lowe's Motor Speedway.)

Back on the lead lap and under the lights with aboot 100 laps to go, Robby raced his way up to 3rd place in the closing laps with Jimmie Johnson and Bobby Labonte growing closer in his windshield. However, the result did not match the performance at the end of the night as something in the car besides the engine broke just as the final caution flag waved for an unrelated incident.

It is one of Robby's best races that no one remembers, and it was the first good race RGM ever had in the Cup series. It was no fluke either. RGM brought the same car back to the 1/2 mile quad-oval cookie-cutters in the fall, but again no one new due to another blown engine at Lowe's during the race, a slow qualifying time at Atlanta, and then yet another blown engine at Texas during qualifying.

Not to be deterred, RGM came back to those tracks again in 2006 with potential race winning cars but again never had a good finish due to poor fuel mileage at Atlanta and NASCAR throwing a caution just as Robby pitted while running 5th at Texas.

That car was probably the best car on the track at all of those races, better than even his road-race cars, but by the 2006 Coke 600 for whatever reason, time, secrets leaked, who knows, the car just wasn't as dominant. Robby finally did get a top 10 out of it in the Fall Atlanta race, famous for Robby getting a lucky-dog by throwing roll-bar padding out his window and bringing out a debris caution.

Good times! Here's to the next dominant RGM car, and closing the deal with it!

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on May 26, 2011 at 1:13pm

cool old news,

Man, would i go nuts if he raced like that this year

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on May 26, 2011 at 12:31pm

weather.com shows 30% chance of rain starting at 7pm est (Q time) in the Charlotte area tonight.

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