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 Bob Sadowski on March 23, 2012 at 6:40am

Butch Leitzinger is the man... Fun to watch him drive!

Permalink Reply by TheDon on March 23, 2012 at 9:02am
If that would of been a Hendricks driver NASCAR would of had a special session for him after they got it repaired. NASCAR would of had some kinda excuse the EFI problem was their fault.
Permalink Reply by ShaneH on March 23, 2012 at 12:10pm

I've had the same thing happen. In fact, at an American Lemans race. Motec is REALLY finicky when it comes to voltage. I know that I've fried a Big Stuff 3 ECU when I had it on when we hooked up a 16v charger, which puts out over 21vdc. Do cup cars run 16v or 12v batteries? I always wondered.

Permalink Reply by RadioMan on March 23, 2012 at 7:59pm

Hey thanks Matt for the detailed explanation. I am an electrical design engineer and have some knowledge of the ECU. I had guessed a bad ground wire in another post. I like the little story. I live 3 hours south of Daytona and use to race a hobby stock at Hialeah Speedway in the late 90's. I use to build and repair racing radio harnesses as a hobby when I raced.

You would think that the Mclaren people would design an ECU that handle a battery charger. As a design engineer, I would assume that someone using my system would have done what Robby's team did. They need to add a big sticker to their ECU "NO BATTERY CHARGER ON BOOST"

Permalink Reply by El Jardo on March 22, 2012 at 11:31pm

It sucks to hear but, I know Rob is doing what is best for the operation as a whole. Scraping by and s&p every weekend in NASCAR with only the support of SPEED may do more long term harm than good. The finacial strain NASCAR racing can put on a new company is rough. I would think not spending some of the SPEED money every weekend to get to the cup races could allow more money to be put back into the company. Feed the company. I know we all want to see racing and not marketing but, its the reality of the situation. Without SPEED Energy being successful things will only be tougher. Keep on Keeping on!!

Permalink Reply by Vlad Rogers on March 22, 2012 at 11:33pm

If his plan is to pick and choose his races, and not S&p, i think i couldnt be happier. Lets face it, the last couple years have been very demoralizing for us, i could only imagine how he feels. Anyways, im excited, hopefully you guys are too.

Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on March 23, 2012 at 12:32am

Well......................................this is Planet Robby not planet nascar. Stick around it's not that hard to live without steak "everyday" and what the future holds is what the future will be. Sure I could mumble some literary half hearted scraps about punching a tree and how much it sucks and all but that would just bring truth to the line "All the love you've been giving has all been meant for you". Who in their right mind would have ever said Robert Yates racing was going to be no more, given the retirement thing and all, sure, you could have an easy logical out but............NAZICAR is money by the boatloads (one way) As per everything else it all sounds positive and of sound sense............thanx TOG .. You never know a star may fall for the man.

Permalink Reply by blitz on March 23, 2012 at 7:59pm

his plan is to pick and choose which races he does not qualify for...lol just kidding this sucks

Permalink Reply by Ed Fifield on March 23, 2012 at 1:10am

I for one am glad to hear this. Hopefully when Robby does show up it will be for a full race and he will be competitive.

Permalink Reply by dastexan on March 23, 2012 at 1:15am

bout damn time.

Permalink Reply by Chris Anello on March 23, 2012 at 7:38am
Permalink Reply by putter on March 23, 2012 at 8:45am

TOG, is there any reason why he wouldn't run (s & p) the Coke600?? I would think expensive would be low, not much downside if he doesn't make it. Or does he have something going on that weekend? I hope the Wood Bro plan will work, I thought they should have done it last year after they knew he couldn't make it back into the top35.

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