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Robby Gordon plans to have Kevin Conway in car rest of year while working on 2011 program
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Robby Gordon hopes to have a deal done soon to have Kevin Conway drive a Robby Gordon Motorsports car the rest of the season and possibly next year.
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
Gordon put Conway in the No. 7 car at Bristol Motor Speedway last week and Gordon qualified the No. 07 for the Saturday night race.
Conway, a rookie, started the year at Front Row Motorsports, but Conway and sponsor Extenze broke away from the team prior to the Aug. 15 race at Michigan. Conway, who has struggled with three lead-lap finishes in 23 starts and still has the backing of sponsor Extenze, plans to move the sponsorship to RGM. Gordon drove the No. 07 car at Bristol.
Gordon says he plans to run the No. 7 car the rest of the year to remain in the top 35 and have one of those 35 guaranteed spots for the first five races next year. Conway finished 36th at Bristol, and the No. 7 car has a 125-point edge on the 36th-place Latitude 43 Motorsports No. 26 car and 144-point edge on the Frown Row Motorsports No. 38 car with 12 races left in the season.
“I’ve got some things coming in for next year that are really good for our organization,” Gordon said last weekend at Bristol. “I believe it will give us the funding to do some races with the 7 car, and if we could do a good job for Kevin Conway, maybe we’ll get fortunate enough that he’ll come back next year and do some races with us as well.
“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year], but every weekend it’s see how it goes. … He’s got to build his confidence. The biggest thing is we need to build his confidence.”
Conway had run only 25 Nationwide races (with no top-10 finishes) before making the jump to Cup.
“It’s a great opportunity,” Conway said. “I’m very thankful for Robby Gordon and the whole team for giving us this opportunity here this weekend at Bristol and hopefully in the very near future we’ll have some exciting news to announce about what our longer-term plans are.”
Gordon’s team fell out of the top 35 for part of the year and missed the race at Pocono with Ted Musgrave qualifying the car. Although he has put two cars in the field in each of the last three races, Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year.
“We’ll focus once we get toward the end of the season on one car,” Gordon said. “We’ll get ready for next year and get our inventory built up for Daytona and Vegas.
“It’s just a fact of the economy. I feel like I’m a pretty good sales guy. I’ve been able to sell sponsorship for a long time now. I’ve got a new, creative way of marketing that I think will be able to change my race team, for sure.”
From Scenedaily
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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" Anybody tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't bleepin' have any. They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the bleepin' smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby."
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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on
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Geez, give RGM & Kevin a chance first. Whatever happened before now doesn't really matter. Robby will have a good car at Atlanta for Kevin to drive. They will have a week off to prepare. The 26 and 38 have to qualify on time. 12 races left, anything can happen.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Plowman on
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Best movie ever!
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Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on
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“The plan is we’d like to [have him run the rest of year],"
"Gordon said he won’t run two cars the rest of the year"
So does this mean Robby will not race in Nascar as a driver the rest of the year? (other then Montreal) If so I will have a lot of free time on Sundays. Not gonna go "all in" as a Conway fan. Jeez it was hard enough watching RG finish poorly at times. At least we knew he could win or finish well if all the planets align. Bummer Robby fan first.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on
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Looks like RGM will only run one car at Atlanta with Kevin in the 7.
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Permalink Reply by El Jardo on
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Who owns the #07? I thought it was RCR, then I see Robby with it this year? How does the number thing work?
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Permalink Reply by bighead on
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Dam it kinda makes you think that Robby is ready to watch a little football......WHO DAT BABY
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Since Robby will be in Crandon the Atlanta weekend and still a couple of Score events before Dakar.I doubt Robby's thinking football. IMO
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Permalink Reply by Wheaton56 on
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LOL, or maybe RG is waiting for nascar to come get him out of bed and bed him to come back.......for a cool 23 Mil a year.........Just maybe
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Permalink Reply by George Ferrer on
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I am a big Robby Gordon fan, even when he was trying it with his own team with the number 13. He always drove to win, this starting and parking is killing me!! I know his team is strapped for cash. I am thinking a move back to Indy Car would be better. I would hate to see his cup team go away but he ruled in Indy cars.
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