Okay here's a Robby story by Junie Donlavey that I read yesterday that I thought was pretty funny. Hope you don't mind my adding it in here but I thought it was worth sharing too.
Funny Junie story from when Robby drove for him...
Back in 1991 while testing at Daytona, Gordon turned a few laps and was practically yawning when he came back to the pits. "He said, 'Man, this ain't nothing. You can drive these things and read a book coming down the backstretch,' " remembers Donlavey.
That irritated Donlavey and a few crew members, so when preparing a second car that day for Gordon, Donlavey had his mechanic install the carburetor without the speed-sapping restrictor plate. He wanted the ****y young driver to feel what it was like to really have to drive around this once-hairy track. "When he went down pit road . . . man, you couldn't believe it," says Donlavey. First lap: 205 mph; second lap: 207. "He made one lap like he was on a half-mile dirt track, because you know, it wasn't set up to run no 200 miles an hour," says Donlavey. "But he never backed her down." "It got a little sideways; it was fun," says Gordon.
NASCAR wasn't amused. Donlavey was fined $5,000 for allowing a car on the track without a plate. During the next day's test session, Gordon had turned numerous laps before the typical boredom of single-car testing got the best of him. "He comes by me and says, 'Have we got an extra $5,000?' "
