Robby Gordon goes off

#27
#27
In the Pruett/Harvick deal - I'd have to lean towards Pruett getting screwed. He did force Harvick over but Harvick's reaction was to tag him hard in the rear. The contact was behind the rear wheel. While Harvick may have gotten beside Pruett at one point, Pruett regained the position before Harvick tagged him.
 
#28
#28
RG contended that in the past, getting spun on the yellow didn't get treated as not maintaining a "cautious" pace. Ambrose punted him.

To me the question is when did they freeze the field. If RG had already taken the lead then he really got screwed. If he hadn't passed Ambrose yet then he did it to himself.
 
#29
#29
Robby Gordon=million dollar talent, five cent head.

if i've said it once around here, i've said it it a million times. regardless of who's right and wrong, the guy is a first class grade A moron.
 
#30
#30
At least Robby doesn't put up with Nascar's crap like a majority of the drivers. If the other drivers where like him then we would have a much better sport
 
#31
#31
and we'd have more drivers sitting at home this weekend. says alot about paying attention to your boss.
 
#32
#32
I'm still not sure what happened at the end of the race.... except that Robby Gordon went insane.
 
#33
#33
TennesseeFan07 said:
At least Robby doesn't put up with Nascar's crap like a majority of the drivers. If the other drivers where like him then we would have a much better sport
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To each his own I guess, but personally, if I wanted to watch a bunch of guys act like a-holes and whine and yell at each other, I'd watch professional wrestling.
 
#34
#34
Nascar hates Robby Gordon. They're afraid that his one car team will be competitive once they continue to gain experience so they take an opportunity every week to hurt Robby. I mean all of the time you'll see Robby come on to pit in a green flag stop you'll see a debris caution that messes up his whole race. Nascar is after money from these big car teams and just because Robby doesn't have his head of Nascars butt like Waltrip no one likes him. He's gained a fan with these past years because he doesn't let Nascar dictate how he lives his life like they do to most people.
 
#36
#36
Oh yeah, it was definitely funny. He just went off the deep end.... very entertaining stuff. :popcorn:
 
#37
#37
Nascar tried their best to let the canadian the win by penalizing gordon and knowing that gordon and ambrose were going to cancel each other out. Only problem was Harvick won.
 
#38
#38
I don't think they were trying to let him win... although, I wouldn't have minded if he did, me being Canadian and all.
 
#39
#39
I know one thing's for sure, if Nascar doesn't figure out how to officiate a road race then next week at Watkins Glen will be terrible.
 
#43
#43
I'm not a fan of NASCAR but I did watch most of the race yesterday because they were on a road course. The thing between Harvick and Pruett was just two guys being aggressive and is one of those things that happens in racing time to time. You can't put the blame solely on one person there.

RG got hosed. Yesterday they said that NASCAR froze the field when the yellow came out, which should have allowed him to regain 1st for the restart. I watch the prerace show this morning to see what they were saying about it. Now they say NASCAR went back to the previous loop, which should have put RG at 2nd.

Interviewed this morning, RG said the rule as he has always known it was that you have 3 laps to respond to a black flag so he decided to restart from where he thought he should be and could finish and then appeal the positioning. Now NASCAR says that he is being parked for not responding immediately?
 
#44
#44
Wasn't it David Pearson back in the 70s that had an engine problem with about 10 to go and he won the race without serving the penalty because he had 12 laps to do it.
 
#45
#45
TennesseeFan07 said:
UPDATE 2: NASCAR issued a statement Saturday evening about the incident during the Busch race from Ramsey Poston, NASCAR Managing Director of Corporate Communications: "Once the caution came out on Lap 72 the field was frozen. Once the field is frozen, all cars must maintain cautious pace in order to be scored. At the time that the field was frozen, the #59 was in the lead. The #55 did not maintain cautious pace and by NASCAR rule, cars not maintaining cautious pace are scored only when they blend back into the continuous line.
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In one of the replays from yesterday it shows one of the cornerworkers extending the yellow to be waved as Ambrose made contact with RG. They were ahead of the accident and that was the first he knew of the yellow and hadn't had time to slow to a "cautious pace". This is one of the reasons I am not a NASCAR fan. Its the equivelent of the WWE.
 
#48
#48
d4ster3 said:
great race :rock: nascar needs more Robby Gordons :)
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They've got 'em. Tony Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Kyle Busch.

BTW, Tidwell seems to see things slightly different then the rest of the people watching the race, so good luck getting him to agree with you.
Proud2BaVol said:
I'm not a fan of NASCAR but I did watch most of the race yesterday because they were on a road course. The thing between Harvick and Pruett was just two guys being aggressive and is one of those things that happens in racing time to time. You can't put the blame solely on one person there.
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I agree with this.
 
#49
#49
BTW, Tidwell seems to see things slightly different then the rest of the people watching the race, so good luck getting him to agree with you.
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Yeah, that must've been why GAVol and doozer agreed with it and others agreed about Pruett's driving.
 
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