Robby Gordon Sirius XM Interview 3-22-12

Robby was on Sirius XM ( 3-22-12 ) & talked for about 13 minutes.. He discussed the ECU issues ( have found the problem ) , The Mint 400 & said that Justin Lofton will drive the car at Martinsville.

After Martinsville, Robby stated that they will park the car & the next race will not be until Sonoma.

Audio of the Interview now available on main page

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Permalink Reply by Eric on March 22, 2012 at 10:19pm
I am all for that. He mentioned the wood bros. maybe I miss understood. Oh well. I wish rgm the best in whatever they choose to do. And thanks tog for all that you do for us fans.
Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on March 22, 2012 at 9:36pm

Thanks for the Audio...Good stuff

Permalink Reply by Barb on March 22, 2012 at 9:46pm

Thanks for the update TOG.

Permalink Reply by WJM on March 22, 2012 at 10:21pm

There's some good off-road races coming up to fill the void. Silver State 300, Baja 500, Vegas to Reno, Crandon, etc.

Permalink Reply by aircros on March 22, 2012 at 10:23pm

So will Robby be running for the BITD and SCORE championship? or is he done racing and going to focus on SPEED?

Permalink Reply by mj on March 22, 2012 at 10:46pm
Uh hello racing IS concentrating on SPEED !
Permalink Reply by TOG on March 22, 2012 at 10:55pm

aircros - like he said in interview, has sponsors for off-road. Only a few races funded in cup. I think he will race when he can & its funded correctly.

Permalink Reply by aircros on March 22, 2012 at 10:58pm

thanks TOG

Permalink Reply by Kyle Alexander on March 22, 2012 at 10:49pm

Thanks once again TOG for the updates

Permalink Reply by Brian on March 22, 2012 at 11:09pm

I hope he fills in the schedule with some more off-road stuff. Man, this sucks but it's just business.

Permalink Reply by Jess on March 22, 2012 at 11:17pm

does the money rob gets when he start and parks cover the crew, transporting the car and all the cost of the weekend ???

Permalink Reply by robbyfansinceimsa on March 22, 2012 at 11:36pm

Radioman, the problem was not originally with the ECU, the problem was the battery was just a little low on voltage when the starter was cranking to fire the coils. You generally need 9 volts for the coils to fire. I found this out the hard way in 1999 as a crew chief at the 24 Hours of Daytona, we had just converted a car to Motec fuel injection after running carburetors for years. We literally spent the entire Thursday when we should have been practicing and running night practice trying to get the car to start. Finally at the very end of night practice we changed what appeared to be a good battery and the car started.
In Robbys case they put a battery charger on it and set it to the start setting which puts too many volts through the system for the Mclaren ECU to handle and it fried the ECU.
By the way we ended up missing the race at Daytona which was devastating to our little team with prepaid European rental drivers, I even had Butch Leitzinger attempt to qualify the car even though we had not one practice lap.

Sorry for the little story but I am sure Robby was completely unable to sleep trying to figure out the problem

matt

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