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Tony Stewart & Robby Gordon Owner / Driver, but different (Radio)
During the race discussion for The Brickyard 400, Tony & Robby were mentioned about their open wheel opportunities if Indy changed it's times, but they also talked about some differences between Tony & Robby as owners.
Both Tony & Robby are part of a select group in Nascar, Owner & Driver. They both left successful teams to own their own teams. What's the biggest difference in the two, with Tony leading the points and Robby Gordon?
I would say Tony made better organization decisions. He took the Joe Gibbs philosophy of surrounding yourself with great people. Tony went out and hired the best he could get, with the intetions of getting someone that would be a crew chief. Tony wants to drive, and only show up and worry about driving. This recipe has given Tony success. Now it doesn't hurt that Tony has Hendrick cars and backing. I know Haas had Hendrick before, but bringing in the people like Grubb makes a difference.
Robby could take a lesson from Tony on showing up and worrying only about driving. Robby is his own worse enemy, he has to have his finger print on everything. However, Robby is known for being a marketing genius. You see alot of teams with small companies, but Robby knows how to land big sponsors. The sponsors love him and love working with him. Robby is also very successful in off road racing, which are his roots. Robby hasn't made many changes this year which could be good thing for his team, he doesn't have Hendick motors & support like Tony. Robby is making it work own his own terms and is keeping up with teams like Yates and others. The less Robby has to do on sunday will determine how far he rises.
Both Tony & Robby are part of a select group in Nascar, Owner & Driver. They both left successful teams to own their own teams. What's the biggest difference in the two, with Tony leading the points and Robby Gordon?
I would say Tony made better organization decisions. He took the Joe Gibbs philosophy of surrounding yourself with great people. Tony went out and hired the best he could get, with the intetions of getting someone that would be a crew chief. Tony wants to drive, and only show up and worry about driving. This recipe has given Tony success. Now it doesn't hurt that Tony has Hendrick cars and backing. I know Haas had Hendrick before, but bringing in the people like Grubb makes a difference.
Robby could take a lesson from Tony on showing up and worrying only about driving. Robby is his own worse enemy, he has to have his finger print on everything. However, Robby is known for being a marketing genius. You see alot of teams with small companies, but Robby knows how to land big sponsors. The sponsors love him and love working with him. Robby is also very successful in off road racing, which are his roots. Robby hasn't made many changes this year which could be good thing for his team, he doesn't have Hendick motors & support like Tony. Robby is making it work own his own terms and is keeping up with teams like Yates and others. The less Robby has to do on sunday will determine how far he rises.
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Permalink Reply by laura_a_Robbyfan on
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they did not mention that Robby started from scratch and Tony walked into an existing team.
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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on
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GEEZ! Sorry, it was a short segment that came from a caller asking a question to Jacob Allison (part of the Allison family) on The Sports Monster.
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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Like Hopechurch said, Robby started from SCRATCH, whereas TONY walked into an existing multi-car team.
If all he wanted to do was show up and drive, then he never would have started his team to begin with.
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Permalink Reply by Dave-O on
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To be fair, if RGM was running a second car, they'd probably be on par with Haas/CNC. The team was junk, even with hendrick support.
Tony Stewart is a genius, but succeeded because he built up his "star power" running good equipment for years before stepping out on his own, and used all that power to grab big sponsor $$ and some of the most brilliant people in the sport. He's earned what he has, we should all stop hating.
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Permalink Reply by JoCo on
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It's not Tony that anyone hates, as far as I'm concerned anyway, but it's the over-hype he's getting for being an "Owner/driver" when he was GIVEN 49% of a team which is co-owned by a billionaire and whose cars are built from the ground up in the Hendrick shop...it's just ridiculous whenever those idiots Jeff Hammond, DW, Larry McReynolds, et al are all over Tony's jock about being an "owner/driver".
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To Tony's credit he did seek out advice first from Robby before becoming Stewart-Haas
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Permalink Reply by MerlotMax on
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On Paper TS does not even own his car, it's Haas's wife. Ryan Newman is Tony's driver.
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Just like Buffy Waltrip use to be the owner of the 55. That listed owner stuff is meaningless.
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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on
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Him choosing to drive for his own nascar team is probably one of the biggest wastes of driving talent in the history of motorsports.
Absolute truth.
Haas stunk up the joint prior to Stewart coming on board. Tony Stewart is doing the right things as a NASCAR Cup owner, which are issues of management and administration, not an issue of wrenching a car yourself and making self destructive decisions. But for some reason people here are absolutely amazed at throwing away prime racing years of your career. I look forward to a bunch of "NASCAR ONLY PAYS FOR SCORE!" bullshit responses.
And people crying about who is listed as the owner? Wasn't Jim Smith still listed as the owner of the #7 throughout 2005?
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Amen. Let's face it, we love RG, but he could've done so much better. "He can only do things his way" is a cover-up for he couldn't find the slightest humility- which is what makes Kyle Busch a better driver than ol' Robby.
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