Robby Gordon Motorsports Talladega Preview

Menards Talladega Preview
Sunday, Oct 2, 2005 in
Talladega, AL

TV: NBC 2:00pm/et



Notes 

*	Yellow and Black …  the No. 7 Robby Gordon Motorsports will
feature the yellow, black and silver Menard paint scheme this week
*	Trackside Appearances … Robby Gordon will be making appearances
at his merchandise trailer after qualifying on Friday, after happy hour
on Saturday and on Sunday morning. Please visit the trailer for more
specific times
*	Listen in ... You can hear the team’s race transmission by
tuning your scanner to 469.4500
*	New partner … Carloans.com has come on board as a new associate
sponsor for the balance of the 2005 season and will continue to support
Robby Gordon Motorsports through 2006
*	Impound?  Talladega will not be an impound race
*	Helmet Auction … Gordon’s race-thrown helmet received 55 bids
and raised $51,100 for the Harrah’s Employee Relief Fund. It also
enjoyed being the number one watched item on eBay.

 

 

Two hundredths of a second is all that separated Robby Gordon’s Chevy
from making the Aarons 499 the last time the NEXTEL Cup series visited
Talladega. Since then the team has gained much more confidence in its
speedway program.

 

Robby Gordon on returning to Talladega

”This will be our third restrictor plate race with the same car. We know
it’s a good car. It ran very well in the qualifying race at Daytona in
February and again in the race in July. The Menard Engine Group has been
making steady improvements in the engine shop and hopefully this will be
the weekend that we get some breaks and finally display the true
potential of this team.  We had hoped to have a completely new Speedway
package for this week, however, the engine department found something it
didn’t like just a week or two ago so we’ll be running the same motor
package we ran at Daytona in July.  The new restrictor plate motor will
be ready for testing at Daytona in January and will give us a bunch of
help.”

 

Robby Gordon on last week’s race at Dover

 

“The team once again gave me a car that was much better than the result.
We had some issues with speeding on pit road and when our pit official’s
radio failed at about the same time there was some confusion on how I
should serve the penalty.  That effectively put us two laps down.  Our
pit stops were solid and car was fast off the corners.  We had an engine
failure that isn’t yet fully understood, but from all indications it was
a fluke that can be easily corrected.”