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CART: Milwaukee Qualifying Notes, Robby Gordon

5 June 1999

Robby Gordon
#22 Johns Manville/Panasonic/Menards Toyota-Swift
Qualifying Notes/Quotes -- Saturday, June 5, 1999
Miller Lite 225
Round 7 of 20 in the CART FedEx Championship Series
At The Milwaukee Mile - Milwaukee, Wis.

Robby Gordon qualified his #22 Johns Manville/Panasonic/Menards
Toyota-powered Swift champ car 23rd on the starting grid for Sunday's
Miller Lite 225 here at the historic Milwaukee Mile.  Gordon recorded a
qualifying lap of 22.882 seconds (an average of 162.363 mph) around the
one-mile oval under hot, sunny and muggy conditions. Helio Castro-Neves
captured the pole in 21.931 seconds (169.404 mph).  A tape-delayed
broadcast of today's CART FedEx Championship Series qualifying show is
set for 1:30 a.m. EDT Sunday on ESPN2.  The green flag falls for the
Miller Lite 225 at 2 p.m. CDT on Sunday.  It will be broadcast by ABC on
a one-hour tape delayed basis at 4 p.m. EDT.

Quotes

ROBBY GORDON -- "The car's just not there, yet. I'm very nervous in the
car right now.  We're going to have to make some changes so we can run
consistently hard for 200 laps tomorrow.  We're suffering the same
symptoms we did before St. Louis - a power-on loose condition - and
we've got a long way to go to clean it up.  This was the car that was
our back-up at St. Louis.  It's a good car, but it just doesn't have the
same geometry as the one we crashed in the race.  We stopped in the
middle of this morning's (practice) session to re-do the geometry, a job
which takes about 25 minutes.  Unfortunately, that wiped out the rest of
the session.  Hey, you've got to remember that we're a young, first-year
team.  We're going to have our good weekends and we're going to have our
struggles.  It's very competitive out here.  Just look at the company
we're in at the back of the grid."

MIKE HELD (Team Gordon Co-Owner) -- "The good news is that I don't think
it could get much worse.  That leaves a lot of opportunities on the
horizon.  Obviously, the car is not very good right now.  Robby's a
brave driver.  We all know that.  Give him a good car and he'll go
fast.  But, obviously, we've got some work to do."    

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