Watkins Glen

[bajafox]

Pretty much RG's last chance at a good showing this season...

[RGFan]

No, it is absolutely his last chance (barring a fluke or if RG signs a deal with Hendrick (lol).

[BeerRUN]

I just got here the weather is cool with a light wind its going to be a good race

[kaw500]

Looks like RGM has entered the #155 into the Nationwide race on Saturday. RG has had some eventful weekend there maybe has one more in him. Agree last real chance this year not sure he will be that good at Dega.

[bajafox]

Nice, I was hoping he would enter the Nationwide race, I think he has a better chance of winning there than in Cup

Hopefully he qualifies well

[BAJA63]

Rg get poll and wins race, pj 2nd. Rg wins nationwide race. Just wait and see

[Racer21(Roberto)]

Rg get poll and wins race, pj 2nd. Rg wins nationwide race. Just wait and see

hehe. I dont think so. But i'd love for you to proove me wrong.

[spalind]

Hey, the good news is that with MW putting Carpentier in his car for the weekend, RG should pass MW and move all the way up to 33rd in the standings!!!

[RGFan]

Hey, the good news is that with MW putting Carpentier in his car for the weekend, RG should pass MW and move all the way up to 33rd in the standings!!!

I do not care about the driver points, I care about the owner points.

[bajafox]

http://www.nascar.com/video/cup/2009/08/05/cup.wat.yocum.rgordon.nascar/

[Racbaja]

Robby needs to follow Tony around and pit when he does, Tony always has good pit strategy unlike RGM.

Ron Plunkett
Plunkett Racing 557

[randy s]

well. it's practice time. rg went out late but after 1 lap, he was in the top 5. mcreynolds hit the nail on the head. he said rg can't afford to beat himself. where have we heard that before?

[randy s]

jimmie the sissy is at the top of the practice leader board. i can't stand that guy. just had rg on the tube and he broke a tranny mount bracket that kept him out of the first minutes of the session.. mcreynolds just said rg has the finest road race cars he's ever seen. not ONE of the finest. the finest period. wow.

[randy s]

kurt busch fastest now.

[randy s]

rg's problem is that alot of drivers are good now. he used to be dominant. not so much anymore. those guys are pros and the playing field is leveling out. even if rg is at the top of his game, it ain't gonna be easy.

[allwaysbaja]

kurt busch fastest now.

Kurts no slouch at Watkins Glen. Remember the battle he and Robby had in the nationwide/busch cars a couple of years ago ??

[randy s]

Kurts no slouch at Watkins Glen. Remember the battle he and Robby had in the nationwide/busch cars a couple of years ago ??sure do. one of the best races ever even if the outcome wasn't what i wanted. great race.

[fishd00d]

Robby had a crap qualifier time I am glad I left him off my fantasy roster!

[allwaysbaja]

Robby had a crap qualifier time I am glad I left him off my fantasy roster!

Could RG be more in race trim than qualifiying trim?

[fishd00d]

Could RG be more in race trim than qualifiying trim?

Maybe but his time is well over a second behind the poll so far...hes 16 out of 28 so far...

[allwaysbaja]

Maybe but his time is well over a second behind the poll so far...hes 16 out of 28 so far...

might have over driven the lap? or hot, slick track, who knows? Looks like he's back there with some good, road racing company.

[fishd00d]

Well both RG cars are in. RG in 22nd and PJ in 39th. I still doubt RG will have a top 5 run though.

[BAJA63]

Looks to be another high blood preasure weekend for rg fans. Wtf is up with pj. Why is he so slow,whats wrong with the car or is it him. At least rg is 3rd fastest in practice for nationwide.

[ttucker77]

Did PJ start and park at Sonoma? I'm been wondering about this since then.

I'm not too worried about Robby. I think he'll do very well tomorrow in the Busch race.

[racer56]

PJ broke at Sonoma.

[RGFan]

PJ broke at Sonoma.

Yes, PJ "Broke" like on lap 2 of the race.

[Offspring]

Yes, PJ "Broke" like on lap 2 of the race.

I heard it will be a 'rear gear' problem tomorrow for the start-n-park 04. Replay of Sears Point, but still a payday.

[Kartman]

Well both RG cars are in. RG in 22nd and PJ in 39th. I still doubt RG will have a top 5 run though.

Word on site in DNQ

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_0113.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_0136.jpg

[fishd00d]

Word on site in DNQ


Hes in:

39 204 P.J. Jones Toyota Jim Beam / Menards

[Racer21(Roberto)]

anyone else gonna watch the nationwide race, to see Robby Gordon maybe win? qualified 3rd, and his car is good on the long run.

[ttucker77]

anyone else gonna watch the nationwide race, to see Robby Gordon maybe win? qualified 3rd, and his car is good on the long run.

Robby got jacked up by Greg Biffle in the inner loop. I bet he ain't happy...

[bajafox]

That sucked but he's running top 5 now

[woundedyak]

Dam,RG made a hell of a pass in the "s" turns. If his pit strategy works out. he might just have a chance to win this thing!

[fishd00d]

lol RG just lost 7 spots with a bad pit. WAJ the saga continues.

[bajafox]

That was depressing

[bajafox]

Ambrose and Kyle have better cars anyway

[Racer21(Roberto)]

"look at the 55 of Robby Gordon! I wonder how long NASCAR will let that go!" lol, his hood is ruined, and he is still pretty fast.

[RBrown]

That poor tape job on his hood is going to cost him. Instead of making it better, they made it worse! Why didn't they use one of those big tape panels. Other crews can rebuild a whole fender, they couldn't even tape one down!

[bajafox]

That was definetely the worse taping job in the history of taping

[bajafox]

Flat tire, its over

[woundedyak]

Beats himself once again!

[fishd00d]

Did you really expect something else to happen besides this? lol Contact with the #20 takes him out of todays race pretty much with a flat.

[RBrown]

Looks like Kangaroo Jack and ET are going to battle it out. Robby probably earned an invite to the Nascrap Office!

[Racer21(Roberto)]

oh boy.... and RG got the free pass from that wreck. haha.

i wasn't a big fan of Burnt toast anyways.

[racer56]

RG drives like an idiot yet again. Week after week Robby shows he has no business running the upper echelons of Nascar.

[Racbaja]

Great final six laps by Robby 29th to 14th. Love him or hate him he brings excitement to Nascrap road courses.

[racer56]

RG capitalizes on his 3rd place qualifying run to another great finish. If Robby had hit the pace car, he would have had a perfect day.

[NicksTrix]

todays report card reads: "does not play well with others"

[DailyPedal]

RG capitalizes on his 3rd place qualifying run to another great finish. If Robby had hit the pace car, he would have had a perfect day.

Amen...I have (had) so much respect for his ability but once again, he takes himself out of a top ten finish jacking around with slower cars (Logano). All his lame attepts to teach Logano a lesson or get some form of payback did nothing but cost him tons of spots and make him look like a nut job...and the idea that he adds some excitement to a race...sorry, all he did was let down the few fans he has left that were truly rooting for good things...

[bajafox]

Logano "you can't fix stupid"

Pretty fkn embarrassing to hear an 18 yr old say that to a 40yr old

[DailyPedal]

Logano "you can't fix stupid"

Pretty fkn embarrassing to hear an 18 yr old say that to a 40yr old

No kidding...I was waiting for the announcers to say something like that...you could here it in their voices as they replayed some of RGs antics...like "what is the guy thinking" over and over...LOL

[Kartman]

If anyone saw Menard spin n turn 2 and end up backwards today you probably saw me. I was shooting uphill at the S's heard and felt a big thump 4 feet to my right, look over and see Menard backwards. Im glad those barriers are sturdy here. The let us go in some really sketchy spots but kick out of other tame ones, makes no sense.

[tomahawkracefab]

when it comes to swingin the steerin wheel left AND right..Marcus is THE MAN !!!

[DailyPedal]

when it comes to swingin the steerin wheel left AND right..Marcus is THE MAN !!!

And more than that, he is a class act and very fan friendly. Since he made the trip, he has quickly become one of my favorite drivers...

[kaw500]

If anyone saw Menard spin n turn 2 and end up backwards today you probably saw me. I was shooting uphill at the S's heard and felt a big thump 4 feet to my right, look over and see Menard backwards. Im glad those barriers are sturdy here. The let us go in some really sketchy spots but kick out of other tame ones, makes no sense.

Are sticking around for tomorrow re-try?

[Kartman]

Yep I will be here until they race or leave town. A few action shots from todays race.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_4106a.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_4130a.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_5156a.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_5208a.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/DSC_5223a.jpg

[Kartman]

ME after walking a mile from outside turn 1 to the media center in the rain with 60lbs of gear.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e367/kartmanaz/2009%20Racing/glen/mattndorsey.jpg

[DEZERTBOUND]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/9913764/NASCAR-watching-Robby-Gordon-after-wreck

[racer56]

"You can't fix stupid. It's forever."

[bajafox]

I'm listening to the in car of RG, his car is loose and running warm

[bajafox]

Stremme needs to park his car

Spun out Carpentier

Spun himself out and took out JG and Harvick

[bajafox]

RG in the pits, hood is up

[bajafox]

RG 2 laps down

[bajafox]

whatever the problem was with RG's car seems to be fixed

[kaw500]

whatever the car was with RG's car seems to be fixed

All the makings of a long day.

Think I'll head to work:mad:

[bajafox]

haha, fixed my sentence, I'm still not fully awake

[kaw500]

whatever the problem was with RG's car seems to be fixed

Electrical

[bajafox]

20 car spins out, carried too much weight into the turn, no caution

[bajafox]

88 spins out, hits hard, car is done

[bajafox]

Jr he ran out of brakes

[bajafox]

RG 2 laps down with more cars going down a lap, I dont think he will even finish on the lead lap. If RG didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all...

Max Papis running 5th, Boris was running 5th but his car started to over heat. Too bad, he would be my pick if RG didn't win

[kaw500]

[QUOTE=bajafox;884062]RG 2 laps down with more cars going down a lap, I dont think he will even finish on the lead lap. If RG didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all.../QUOTE]

Yep its hard to keep rooting for the ship not to sink when it just keeps taking on water

[bajafox]

I threw on a life jacket a while ago and jumped ship... I still hope RG has good finishes but I like my other Toyota drivers' chances better, the 18 and 83

[bajafox]

The 24 car completely wadded up, so glad it happened during commercial so we didn't see it

[bajafox]

Oh wow! The replay was pretty BRUTAL

[bajafox]

Looks like RG back on the lead lap now. The wreck also took out the 31

[DEZERTBOUND]

Looks like RG back on the lead lap now. The wreck also took out the 31

yep:)

[bajafox]

Hornish and JG took a hard hit in that wreck, glad to see they're ok

[Mike @ pit b]

Can any of these guys turn right???

[kaw500]

WOW that was ugly, looks like RG may be 1st car a lap down, could he be back on the lead lap? Did I miss something else?

[bajafox]

I think he's back on the lead lap now

Kasey got loose and got into Hornish

[bajafox]

I can't figure out of RG has to pit or not, but if he doesn't (some of the leaders do and Ambrose is close on fuel) he might have a shot at this

[bajafox]

RG is going to pit, should be the last and and he's supposedly back on the lead lap

[kaw500]

I can't figure out of RG has to pit or not, but if he doesn't (some of the leaders do and Ambrose is close on fuel) he might have a shot at this

His radio call in not coming in on the net but if he's good on fuel he may get a decent finish out of this

[kaw500]

Little air time for RG up to 21st

[bajafox]

Worked his way back into top 20 so far

[spalind]

Is a top 10 too much to hope for??

[kaw500]

RGM made the most of being 2 laps down on a road course to come bace and finish 18th on the lead lap.

I'm done till Dega, Trick or Treat.

TS a good bet to take it all

[spalind]

Zzzzzzz...other than congrats to Ambrose on the 2nd place finish...yet another disaster in a string of disasters for NASCAR...could the series get any more boring or snake-bitten?? Yeah, I'm sure all these rainouts and monday races are just making sponsors climb over themselves to sign up for next year...

[bajafox]

It was prettty boring, too many races coming down to gas mileage. TS did have the best car and won, but it seems like week in and week out teams are hoping to win on fuel mileage

Something needs to be done, the double file restarts helped, but not much

[mattb]

Get some rain tires on these things. What ever happened to that concept from a couple of years ago?

[racer56]

That was before the POS COT.

[Mumzy]

They need to have a sedan series that can run ANY 8 cyl motor...turbo or not... diesel or not. Open tires. The only rule is that the shell of the body must be factory, and the block must be production from the same manufacturer as the body.

Open it up and let Yankee ingenuity take over.

[07FJRog]

They need to have a sedan series that can run ANY 8 cyl motor...turbo or not... diesel or not. Open tires. The only rule is that the shell of the body must be factory, and the block must be production from the same manufacturer as the body.

Open it up and let Yankee ingenuity take over.

I am thinking that all the cars in the Nascar class are Sedans. :eek: Camry, Charger, Fusion, Impala..... yep not a hardtop among them! lol

[RBrown]

I agree, BORING! I didn't think the NAS-TARDS could screw up a road course race, my bad. I am tired of this fuel milage element as well. (I thought Racing was a measure of speed) maybe they can limit the teams to one set of tires and see who can make it to the finish! If these idots think they are too big to fail, they should talk to: CART, F1, GM, Chrysler, etc...

[mark@PhotoAhead]

I agree, BORING! I didn't think the NAS-TARDS could screw up a road course race, my bad. I am tired of this fuel milage element as well. (I thought Racing was a measure of speed)

I agree, I'M sick of hearing "fuel mileage" during the races.
When it turns into a fuel mileage race I switch over to the watch paint dry channel.

[bajafox]

fuel mileage = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Every single race you hear that term, Truck series and Nationwide races are more fun to watch these days

I told my wife this was the last race I was going to watch this year, unless it's a plate race and I'm home alone bored out of my mind, I'm done watching for the season

GO CHARGERS!

[Kartman]

New blog posted on my weekend at The Glen.

http://durkadurka.net/blog/

[DEZERTBOUND]

Thank you for sharing...

[michael_loomis]

They need to have a sedan series that can run ANY 8 cyl motor...turbo or not... diesel or not. Open tires. The only rule is that the shell of the body must be factory, and the block must be production from the same manufacturer as the body.

Open it up and let Yankee ingenuity take over.

they do! its called the 24 hours of LeMons! :D

except the tire treadwear has to be 190 or higher.. haha.