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CART: Australia Friday Practice Notes/Quotes, Robby Gordon

15 October 1999

Robby Gordon

#22 Johns Manville/Panasonic/Menards Toyota-Swift

First-Round Qualifying Notes/Quotes ­ Friday, October 15, 1999
Honda Indy 300
Round 19 of 20 in the CART FedEx Championship Series
Surfers Paradise, Australia

First-Round Qualifying time - 94.674 seconds
First-Round Qualifying position - 14th

Quotes

ROBBY GORDON ­ "We're having a hard time smoothing out the rough ride
here.  It's wild out there, I feel like I'm fighting a grizzly bear in
every corner.  Part of that is the track, but part of that is also us
trying to come up with a better shock setup.  At times, it's so bumpy I
can barely see.

The biggest thing for us right now is to sort out the bumps and keep the
car from jumping as much when I run through the chicanes.  If we can do
that we'll be in much better shape.  Even at that though, the session
wasn't too bad.  We ended up 14th.  The bummer was my last lap put us
13th and in the fast group for tomorrow, but Helio came through as the
last guy in the session and beat us to drop us down.  It would have been
nice to be able to take advantage of all the rubber in the late session
Saturday."