Robby Gordon Tests At Crandon

Crandon - 20 years ago current NASCAR driver Robby Gordon raced at Crandon International Raceway.

It was the one and only time he graced the historic track, that is until this week.

Gordon announced last week he was planning to race a pro-2 during BorgWarner weekend and showed up this week to test his Toyota. The Crew spent Tuesday and Wednesday cruising around the one and a half mile track to get a feel of the truck, and Crandon Raceway. The NASCAR driver says he doesn't plan to come to the Northwoods to finish second.

"Well obviously you come to these races and you want to win." says NASCAR driver Robby Gordon. "You know we've had a really good off-road race season so far this year. We finished third at the Dakar rally. We won Laughlin. We finished second at San Felipe, these are desert races. We won the Baja 500 and so our worst finish is third so obviously we're coming here to win the race and do the best job we can. We look forward to coming out here and racing around these local fans and local racers as well."

It will be an interesting weekend for Robby Gordon. He has to qualify his #7 NASCAR on Saturday of Labor Day weekend at Atlanta motor Speedway. Then he plans to race the Pro-2 events on Sunday September 6th during the 40th anniversary BorgWarner weekend in Crandon, but will have to leave early Sunday afternoon to make the NASCAR race outside Atlanta, Georgia later that night.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 20, 2009 at 1:34am

And of course, the video from 1989

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Permalink Reply by 7-7-7 on August 21, 2009 at 1:00am

I was wrenchin' on RG's truck at that race...the Venable days...good times for sure! If you can find the video for 1990 or 1991 you'll see JIMMIE JOHNSON (Yes, the JIMMIE JOHNSON) working for ESPN as a Victory Circle interviewer...Absolutely Hilarious!!!

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Permalink Reply by nickspeed on August 20, 2009 at 1:43am

Robby shure put on a show the few times he drove the 71 corr truck for jim baldwin. So driving a truck build for him should be that much better.

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Permalink Reply by LuckyLarry7 on August 20, 2009 at 7:16am

Nice Video!

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Permalink Reply by Rube on August 20, 2009 at 8:15am

i cant believe no one spotted this yet.... it says in the 1st part of this article that he is testing his toyota..... but im about 99% sure the press release about the polaris sponsor said he was driving a chevy.... so is it toyota or chevy?... is this the sign of the future for his offroad vehicles?....

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Permalink Reply by ricardo suarez on August 20, 2009 at 10:48am

i think its going to be a chevy they been saying chevy????????????????

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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on August 20, 2009 at 11:38am

what, thats what i was thinking Man i hope its a chevy.

I hate the looks of tundras,
So i wanna get this right hes racing sat and sunday at crandon, then Sunday night at Atlanta in the cup car