Robby says he is going to appeal fine

I was just watching the practice coverage and they interviewed Robby. He said they way he read the rule and they way NASCAR did is different. He also said the car was leagal befoe and after the race and he is going to appeal.

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on May 29, 2009 at 11:51pm
just like daytona last year.......
Permalink Reply by Nick Head on May 30, 2009 at 12:42am
Glad to hear this.. RG should never back down if he is right.. remember the saying "Give them an inch, & they will take a mile"... IMO I say never let them have "their" way.. if they want to single him out, so be it.. but they better be ready to fight... The day you lay down and let them win they own you.. besides as the great Mickey Thompson once said, "Any Ink is good Ink".. RALLY FOR ROBBY!! GAS ON IN DOVER!!
Permalink Reply by lasvegas on May 30, 2009 at 10:41am
good for him. Fight the good fight RG1
Permalink Reply by NIKAL on May 31, 2009 at 11:37am
Frone Scenedaily;
DOVER, Del. – Sprint Cup Series owner/driver Robby Gordon says he will appeal NASCAR penalties levied against his Robby Gordon Motorsports team May 27.

Gordon was penalized 50 owner and 50 driver points while crew chief Kirk Almquist was fined $50,000 and placed on probation until Dec. 31.

Officials said the rear axle housing of the No. 7 Toyota, which was taken following a third-place finish by Gordon in the May 25 Coca-Cola 600, exceeded the maximum specified toe of plus or minus one degree.

“The bottom line is we were no more ‘body yawed’ than anybody else,” Gordon said May 30, “even though our rear end had more toe.

“We ... pulled our right-side trailing arm forward and our left-side trailing arm backwards. We fit the template on the right side before the
race. So we aren’t doing anything funny there; there was no advantage.”

NASCAR began limiting the amount of rear toe in 2008 when teams began exceeding two degrees with the rear axle housing. The adjustment creates a situation where the rear tires are turned out, or to the right, which allows the car to carry more speed into the turns.

As a result of the penalty, Gordon fell from 33rd to 34th in owner points. He enters the May 31 Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway 131 points ahead of the 36th-place team of Red Bull Racing’s Scott Speed in the owner standings.

Gordon, 40, said the rear axle measurement was one degree outside the NASCAR limit, and said he felt the penalty was “excessive” for the infraction.

“We missed the one-degree rule by one degree, but we missed ... off the frame rails, which gives us the amount of yaw that we get in our cars,” he said.

“In this economy and these times, I think they need to re-evaluate it. Just like the Carl Long deal. That’s ridiculous. Carl doesn’t build his engines.”

Long, an owner/driver who competes on a limited schedule in the Cup series, was suspended for 12 races, fined a NASCAR record $200,000 and docked 200 points earlier this month when his engine measured 0.17 cubic inch above the 357.000 c.i. maximum allowed.


(So by reading Robbys comments, Robby is admitting the part was illegal. Even if you compensate for the degree somewhere else the fact is the rear end housing was not a legal part. I dont see who RGM can win this appeal.)
Permalink Reply by Beagle7 on May 31, 2009 at 12:09pm
yeah..the question is what is the purpose of the rule...to prevent the amount of body yaw or to just simply and strictly limit the amount of toe in the rear axeI.... dont think he will win, but I think Nascar has that rule to stop the body yaw and the Crab Cars we were seeing for awhile last year which were probably pushing the envelope and outside of the templates

RGM maneuvered it thus he fits the template but not the strict rule of rear axel toe..so hard to see him winning this...but perhaps a bit of a gray area nonetheless depending on how the appeals committe interprets the rule. I wouldnt hold my breath for those 50 back...lol
Permalink Reply by Murf on May 31, 2009 at 12:58pm
i read robbys comments as that they put more in the back and less in the front and it evened out as far as the "yaw " rules go so that is why he was saying his car was no more than any of the others. At the end of the day he has the same "yaw" as everyone else his was just set differently...
Permalink Reply by Ken A on May 31, 2009 at 2:40pm
I`d make the anology of MLB v NASCAR. Imagine if the MLB made equiptment like bats and gloves soo expensive that teams like the Yankees were the only teams that could afford first run flawless equipt but the Marlins had to settle for factory seconds,flaws and used equiptment.
It kinda puts NASCAR in the Wrestling Entertainment league.

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