QUOTE.. "It has been an eventful day for that 7 car"

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Am I the only person that saw the 7 car rubbing and being rubbed by 4 or 5 different cars? Although a lap down he appears to be racing for the lead on every lap.
Betsy :rolleyes:
 
So I was looking at job postings and saw where Robby needed a new PR person and I immediately thought of you. Do you want me to send you the contact information? Doesn't pay much but you'd get to rub elbows with the racers...
 
i agreed betsy, i dont care for robby and he doesn't deserve to be spoken hence he isn't important but he was driving like a nut case today
 
ya..tell me one thing he's done in nascar other than pissed people off and be on people's way
 
reck said:
ya..tell me one thing he's done in nascar other than pissed people off and be on people's way
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He became a owner/driver. :cool: :angel2:
Cup Wins:
New Hampshire 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway on November 23, 2001
Dodge/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway on June 22, 2003
Sirius at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on August 10, 2003
In all three of these triumphs, Gordon was the driver of the #31 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

Robby doesn't need to be in the "clique". ;) :D
There's some R. Gordon fans on here, they could answer this better than I could. If everyone liked the same driver, this board would be very boring.
 
i am not the bit shocked kelloggs5tlfan, that's nothing to be excited about, so what if he's a car owner, how well is he doing?
 
robby stats: 234 races, 3 wins, 13 top 5, 32 top 10, 1 pole, Highest ranking in points 16th. There's alot of drivers that don't even have 1 win after 13 years of racing.
 
since when does racing hard to stay on the lead lap become a bad thing? Oh, i guess when he does it on NBC. I will never understand why hard racing is looked down on when its anyone besides the golden boys. I really don't understand why a lapped car becomes an unimportant car. Racing to stay on the lead lap and racing to be the lucky dog are a big deal and I have more respect for a driver who races hard and doesn't roll over for you because you have Hendrick, Childress or Roush engine. There are 43 cars entered in every race. If NASCAR only wants to see 15 cars racing, then why let in so many?
It really alarms me that NBC is so quick to devalue many of the racers at the track every weekend (notice they didn't ever ever ever seem to care about Tony Stewarts role in the McMurray wreck until Jamie brought it up) and it also alarms me that so many of the pretty boy prima donnas from the big ticket shops treat the little guy like crap.
Personally, I enjoy rooting for the Robbys, Kvapils and Kenny Wallaces...I can relate a lot easier to them than I can "johnny front of the pack" week in and week out, I'm surprised so many fans flock to the Jeff Gordons and Dale Jrs of the world when it seems like they have nothing in common with their fans.
 
barelypure said:
So I was looking at job postings and saw where Robby needed a new PR person and I immediately thought of you. Do you want me to send you the contact information? Doesn't pay much but you'd get to rub elbows with the racers...
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Not that anyone is going to believe me, but in KC my Aunt spent some time in RG's pit and talking to him about being on his new PR board.
 
Good for you, esorlxaw. You said a lot of things I feel like saying. :beerbang:
 
FWIW, Inside Nextel Cup, with DeSpain, Schrader and last night with Blaney and Jarrett didn't have a lot of good things to say about Robby. He didn't seem to be one of their favorite drivers on the track. And, they seldom say anything negative about another driver.
 
esorlxaw said:
since when does racing hard to stay on the lead lap become a bad thing? Oh, i guess when he does it on NBC. I will never understand why hard racing is looked down on when its anyone besides the golden boys. I really don't understand why a lapped car becomes an unimportant car. Racing to stay on the lead lap and racing to be the lucky dog are a big deal and I have more respect for a driver who races hard and doesn't roll over for you because you have Hendrick, Childress or Roush engine. There are 43 cars entered in every race. If NASCAR only wants to see 15 cars racing, then why let in so many?
It really alarms me that NBC is so quick to devalue many of the racers at the track every weekend (notice they didn't ever ever ever seem to care about Tony Stewarts role in the McMurray wreck until Jamie brought it up) and it also alarms me that so many of the pretty boy prima donnas from the big ticket shops treat the little guy like crap.
Personally, I enjoy rooting for the Robbys, Kvapils and Kenny Wallaces...I can relate a lot easier to them than I can "johnny front of the pack" week in and week out, I'm surprised so many fans flock to the Jeff Gordons and Dale Jrs of the world when it seems like they have nothing in common with their fans.
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Racing hard to stay on the lead lap is one thing but when the leader has already lapped you and is 10 seconds ahead of you and you're beating and banging with the 2nd and 3rd place cars, who ARE in the Chase, it goes a little beyond just racing hard to stay on the lead lap.
 
BobbyFord said:
Racing hard to stay on the lead lap is one thing but when the leader has already lapped you and is 10 seconds ahead of you and you're beating and banging with the 2nd and 3rd place cars, who ARE in the Chase, it goes a little beyond just racing hard to stay on the lead lap.
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What if you are trying to stay in front of another lapped car, to keep the lucky dog????
 
Bucky Badger said:
What if you are trying to stay in front of another lapped car, to keep the lucky dog????
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Oh, no, it doesn't matter, remember the Golden Boy Rule, if a Golden Boy is anywhere near you, you are expected to pull off the track. I mean, seriously, have you ever noticed that once most cars go a lap down and then are out of Lucky Dog contention, they usually wind up several laps down because of Golden Boy Rule?
 
here we go with golden rules and whatnot, there is no special rules that apply to specific drivers, its just if you get lapped and cant even stay ahead of the first car a lap down then you should just stay lapped..plus robby was racing the leaders hard not the cars that were lapped down.
 
Not to mention he wasn't racing lap down cars to try and stay the Lucky Dog. He was racing those on the lead lap that if he had allowed to go by it would not have affected his position on the track at all.
But, then (and this is to twitch a few noses) by racing hard at the front he did get a lot of TV time for his sponsor and isn't that worth something?
This is somewhat similar to Nemechek (last year?) that lined up on the inside with 11 laps to go in whatever race because he could. He was multiple laps down, IIRC, with no one even 1 lap in reach so he couldn't advance his position even if he had gotten by the leader. I have to think some do it for the attention.
 
reck said:
here we go with golden rules and whatnot, there is no special rules that apply to specific drivers, its just if you get lapped and cant even stay ahead of the first car a lap down then you should just stay lapped..plus robby was racing the leaders hard not the cars that were lapped down.
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There is a golden boy rule, its just not an offical rule. It is between drivers for the most part. Like the Gentalmans aggremnt when they raced back to the line "would not pass another car for a posation unless the race was going to end at the line"
 
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