Robby Gordon will start last (assuming he makes the field)

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Gordon left Phoenix Sunday night for California and a trip south of the border for this week’s running of the Baja 1000. He is a two-time winner of the grueling event and is the reining Baja 500 champion. The race will start Friday at approximately 9 a.m. PST and Gordon plans on driving the entire course in a solo driving effort. His seat in the Jim Beam Chevrolet will be filled by Paul Menard for practice and qualifying before he flies into South Florida Saturday to assume his duties for the race on Sunday.
 
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Not as good a finish at Baja as I hoped, but he did recover a bunch of positions after 2 shocka broke at different times.

Results Robby Gordon finished 14th in the Trophy Truck division crossing the finish line at 5:06 a.m. Bob Shepard led the trucks to the line while Larry Roeseler won the overall in a class one car. Gordon averaged 34.944 mph for the 708 mile race. The team suffered two broken shocks.
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Oh yeah it is. I'm not sure how many trophy trucks were in, but there was 319 total entries.
 
well, paul got the car in 38th place making it in on the second lap. Have fun robby!
 
I saw this thread but it was not titled about him finishing the race.. Now that I read it it doesn't say anything about him finishing near 1/3 the time slower than the winner. It seems he had some of his usual luck. As with most posting here I wish he had done better. Finishing that far behind does not show his nascar heritage well.
Betsy
 
Betsy said:
I saw this thread but it was not titled about him finishing the race.. Now that I read it it doesn't say anything about him finishing near 1/3 the time slower than the winner. It seems he had some of his usual luck. As with most posting here I wish he had done better. Finishing that far behind does not show his nascar heritage well.Betsy
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You think it doesn't??
How many other NASCAR drivers have even tried it, much less won 4 Baja 500's and 2 Baja 1000's & won stages in Dakar rally? How many NASCAR races start with over 300 competing on the same track at the same time?

It's pretty clear you don't have a clue what the Baja is or what it takes to compete, so why bother posting your uninformed negative biased opinion?
You know what they say, "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder, than to open it and prove their right."

I think if you understood Robby's heritage just a little, you'd know NASCAR is not his heritage, Off Road racing is his real heritage.
 
Oh I forgot>
Robby finishing 14th from the rear with no seat time in that car is pretty darn good. Wish he'd had decent motors all year. :)
 
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... NASCAR Heritage???? What's that got to do with the BAJA?????????
 
Some other sad news for people that watch CORR, Jason Baldwin one of 2 brothers that race ( his dad just bought CORR) was on a plane coming back from Baja that crashed into the Pacific just of Dana Point CA. He had finished 9th at Baja. :(
 
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