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Permalink Reply by ivanspeed on March 16, 2012 at 6:25pm

:( caar looked good

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Permalink Reply by TOG on March 16, 2012 at 6:31pm

From Mike Mulhern article today:

The other two big stories Friday: Robby Gordon and Bruton Smith.

Gordon -- the man who, with Roger Penske's pending defection to Ford, is the only man still on the Dodge roster for 2013 – failed to make the 500 field after his engine failed to fire for practice.


That would normally not be a major story here; however the situation surrounding Gordon's problems made it one.


"Robby was out there on the line ready for practice, and then the car just wouldn't fire," crewman Randy Rodriguez said. "Four McLaren engineers came running over there to help, and they spent 1-1/2 hours with it, but couldn't figure it out.


"So we have to go home. No practice, you can't qualify."


NASCAR officials, asked about the situation, referred reporters to McLaren engineers, who could not be found.


Dodge execs, likewise, could not be found for comment.


Gordon, one of only three NASCAR drivers this year running Dodges (along with Penske men AJ Allmendinger and Brad Keselowski), says he has called Dodge boss Ralph Gilles since Penske announced two weeks ago that he would be moving to Ford. But Gordon says Gilles has not yet returned his inquiries.


Gordon had engine problems at Daytona and tried to get an engine from Penske, the only other team owner building Dodge engines. But Gordon said Penske's price (which he wouldn't specify) was too high.


Dodge itself apparently doesn't build NASCAR engines or have any other engine building source.

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Permalink Reply by speedy7 on March 16, 2012 at 6:56pm

Sorry, but what has this have to do with todays news, or tea price in China............

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Permalink Reply by TOG on March 16, 2012 at 7:36pm

Reading is fundamental . 3/4's of the article is about TODAY. You hittin' the bottle already ?

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Permalink Reply by Tim Nation on March 16, 2012 at 7:34pm

I wish we could just run selected races in the 33 for RCR to help keep that car in the top 35........ this article saddens me I hope it is investigated more

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Permalink Reply by TobaccoRoad on March 16, 2012 at 7:37pm

So Dodge does not give a rat's crap about RGM.

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Permalink Reply by Missy7 on March 16, 2012 at 7:39pm

Neither does Nascar

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Permalink Reply by Tim Nation on March 16, 2012 at 7:38pm

also with Nascar it would not surprise me is they tried to fine RGM when reporters write articles like this

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Wright on March 16, 2012 at 7:35pm

This is, overall, a an extremely unfortunate occurrence for RGM. At least we can all be assured that RGM engineers are working diligently in order to diagnose the problem.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on March 16, 2012 at 7:44pm

this is beyond RGM. this is a McClaren issue.

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Permalink Reply by blitz on March 16, 2012 at 7:46pm

it was a bummer that this happened but at least it was a start and park race,not to much harm.Robby is gonna have to make it on speed any race he tries so some are making a mountain out of a mole hill.what bothers me and always has is why nobody in nascar likes Robby or gives him his due as a racecar driver,dodge has pretty much washed there hands of him as has Penske WTF! can someone tell me why this is?in all the years here they dislike him Jeff Gordon had a cow when Robby beat him at loudon and at sonoma.i know they are jealous of his talent,and his maverick style but that is appealing about him.I just don't get it

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Permalink Reply by Charlie on March 16, 2012 at 7:49pm

This box that fried, is it something that can be replaced or you only have one. If you can replace it, did they try replacing it? It's bad enough that he has to work with his on engine program that is lacking testing, seems like no help from Dodge and reliabilty but now you have engines that don't even start that keeps you from making the race :( Just sucks for everybody associated with RGM or his fans to see your driver withdraw. Maybe one day, the deals and funds will make this team competitive again!! Dodge just needs to get their shit together and help this team out.

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