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Robby Gordon responds to Peterhansel calling him a cheater
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Robby Gordon talks about entering the 2013 Dakar Rally after one of his competitors makes a comment about him and his HUMMER
PETERHANSEL COMMENTING ON ROBBY GORDON ENTERING THE 2013 DAKAR RALLY:
“This is a cheater born, we are here to compete, not for show race, and this is not the circus, even if it pleased the audience.”
“We must fight on equal terms, Robby Gordon must comply with the rules. If this is the case, it is welcome. Otherwise. Not!”
PETERHANSEL IS NOT ONLY CALLING YOU A CHEATER BUT CALLING YOU A SHOWMAN RATHER THAN A RACER, HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THAT?
RG: I take that personal, the fact he is calling me a cheater or my team a cheater. We explained our system last year to A.S.O. at initial technical inspection and we did not change anything from that day of initial tech on our car until the day they saw our car, saying it wasn't legal. With all that said what Peterhansel needs to understand is this is the entertainment business and it is not just about racecars. If it was just about racecars we would all be driving diesel powered Mini’s and they would sound like a bunch of sewing machines.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT HIM TALKING ABOUT FIGHTING ON EQUAL TERMS?
RG: We are really excited to go to the Dakar, last year A.S.O. can say we were disqualified, but to be honest with you at the end of the day we finished 5th and it wasn’t worth fighting with them. So we'll accept whatever we have to accept, but in regards to Peterhansel and playing fair and square, we played by the rules A.S.O. told us we could play by last year and they came and inspected our cars for 2013 and we are ready for the challenge. Last year if you take out the stages I had to tow Al-Attiyah around we would have been easily ahead of Peterhansel at that point. This year our car is even better fine tuned, we’ve had more time to work on it. Even with the inflation disconnected last year, I want to remind Peterhansel that we beat him 10-15 minutes a day when we wanted to go. So he's going to have to tighten his seat belts and we are ready for the battle. There is STILL nothing Monster, about his Mini!
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Permalink Reply by Dave Horwath on
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+1
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Permalink Reply by Speed Freak 7 on
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That could be a bit of a reach. Peterhansel doesn't have a fansite, the most action his facebook has seen is when he hit the bike and nobody is gonna be talking about the Minis on a Monster site. There is a lot of forums on Vagisil however or maybe he has some stock in Vaseline.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Parsons on
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What have i offended you or anyone..dude it's an off-road forum and it's not funded by RG or Speed Energy..so good old america let's us have our freedom of speach and i dont think im offending anyone....
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I find being called a snob offensive, that's insulting a person and I don't think I'm a snob or anyone else on here is. Saying minis are for girls isn't calling the X-Raid team girls, were saying the minis are made for girls. Just remember this is a Robby Gordon fan site and if you throw punches expect to take a lot of hits back. I personally don't mind the rivalry on here and it makes for a good build up to Dakar as long as we don't make things personal and insulting. US vs THEM!
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Permalink Reply by TOG on
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Rivalry is great. Seems a few are 'misguided' what US vs THEM means:
US = United States, Robby Gordon & SPEED Energy
VS = Against , aka who we are racing against
THEM = Red Bull, Monster & mainly Peterhensel.
Them DOES NOT mean the ASO.
Minis are for girls, Hummers are for snobs , who cares???
LETS RACE!
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Love it TOG...now let the battle go on and may the best team win..
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Permalink Reply by SlyFoxx on
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Are you honestly going to say you find no parallel between the "snobs" comment and "are for girls" comment? Really?
Joe hasn't done anything but come here, support his man and talk a little smack. I suggest you and anybody else here who has a problem with him to man up and deal with it.
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You and Tog are right. I retract my comments and I apalogise to Joe
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Permalink Reply by David Z on
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Well you offended me here with that post…… America needs to be capitalized.
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I guess I missed the memo...I thought this was a Robby Gordon fan site. If I had another independent driver that I liked I would interact on that site, but that's just me. I certainly wouldn't got to a rivals site an expect to be greeted with open arms. Being a lowly Jets fan I wouldn't go to Dolphins site and go poking them in the eye without expecting to be pocked back and if they didn't that would amaze me...But, like I said, I didn't get the memo.
Jeans AWESOME
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