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  Robby Gordon keeps following his own road - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jeff Gordon is the winningest Cup driver at the Glen with four victories.
Robby Gordon caught a red-eye back to Florida, drove straight to Sebring and clocked laps faster than the previous day.
Gordon's No. 7 Ford is ranked 29th in owner points, but Kyle Petty says the car has been better than its results.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/nascar/2007-08-08-Robby-Gordon_N.htm?csp=34   (997 words)

  
  Robby Gordon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robby Gordon (born in Bellflower, California, on January 2, 1969) is an American racing driver, who currently competes in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series although he has also raced in the NASCAR Busch and Craftsman Truck series, Champ Car, the IRL, Trans-Am, IMSA, IROC and Paris-Dakar.
Robby’s primary sponsor was Jim Beam Whiskey, his crew chief is Greg Erwin.
Gordon has also continued racing in the Indy 500, competing 8 times from 1993 to 2004 and fielding his own team in 1999, 2000 and 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robby_Gordon   (1147 words)

  
 NASCAR: Grown-up Robby Gordon reunites with Ford
So Gordon left the security of Richard Childress Racing, where his only job was to climb into the car and race every weekend to launch Robby Gordon Motorsports, where driving the car is probably 10th on his list of things to do.
Gordon has qualified for every race this season, and at 27th in the points he's a full 10 spots higher than where he finished last year.
All they see is the Robby Gordon they knew 10 years ago has matured, made smart decisions along the way and finally sees the big picture.
www.startribune.com /694/v-print/story/746569.html   (818 words)

  
 ESPN.com - WC - Robby Gordon not buying into Danica mania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
CONCORD, N.C. Robby Gordon accused Danica Patrick of having an unfair advantage in the Indianapolis 500 and said Saturday he will not compete in the race again unless the field is equalized.
Gordon, a former open-wheel driver now in NASCAR, contends that Patrick is at an advantage over the rest of the competitors because she only weighs 100 pounds.
Gordon never planned to race in the Indy 500 this season, choosing instead to focus on his job as owner of a NASCAR team.
sports.espn.go.com /rpm/news/story?series=wc&id=2070899   (431 words)

  
 SI.com - NASCAR - It's Gordon vs. Gordon as Robby beats Jeff in Sonoma - Tuesday July 01, 2003 03:15 PM
But while Robby celebrated, the runner-up criticized him for his pass of teammate Kevin Harvick under a yellow flag that NASCAR said was perfectly legal.
Gordon took advantage of the situation to pass Harvick as they raced back to the flagstand to take the caution.
Controversy aside, the victory Sunday was particularly satisfying for Robby Gordon, a former Indy-car star who has had two NASCAR road races slip through his fingers in the past.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /motorsports/news/2003/06/22/gordon_sonoma_ap   (1025 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Robby Gordon enjoys role of 'bad boy'
Jeff Gordon, who already had clinched his fourth Winston Cup championship, was leading Robby Gordon with 15 laps to go when the two cars made contact and Jeff spun out.
Robby Gordon, a 33-year-old native Southern Californian who went on the win his first Winston Cup race that day, said he is comfortable with the role as NASCAR's newest "bad boy," although he contends too much was made of the incident at New Hampshire with Jeff Gordon.
Gordon also had the car to beat on the series' other road course, Watkins Glen, when a TV telemetry box exploded in his car, starting a fire that knocked him out of the race.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/rac-nas-loc/2002/jan/30/512963576.html   (788 words)

  
 Robby Gordon driven by naysayers : Pro-Sports : Albuquerque Tribune
Gordon was penalized for speeding on pit road, charged all the way back to the top five but wound up with a disappointing finish after having to make a late gas stop.
Gordon said the turnaround began in the last two races of 2005 when he bounced back from missing races in Atlanta and Texas to finish eighth at Phoenix and 14th at Homestead.
Gordon, who failed in a previous attempt as a NASCAR owner-driver in 2000 when he was partnered with Menard and Mike Held, chose to leave Childress' established team after the 2004 season and said he is much more prepared to succeed now.
www.abqtrib.com /news/2006/Mar/22/robby-gordon-driven-by-naysayers   (1168 words)

  
 rpm.espn.com: Harvick blasts Robby Gordon's victory
Jeff Gordon, who finished second to the unrelated Robby Gordon on Sunday at Infineon Raceway, blasted the winner for the pass after the race, saying the move broke a gentleman's agreement.
Gordon stayed ahead the rest of the race, holding off a strong challenge from Jeff Gordon as Harvick finished third.
Robby Gordon said he asked for clarification of the rule three times during the driver's meeting.
espn.go.com /rpm/wc/2003/0623/1571982.html   (616 words)

  
 Robby Gordon Merchandise Super Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Robby Gordon jumped back into an Indy car in 1999 for the Indianapolis 500 where he all but had the race in the bag until he ran out of gas leading the last lap.
This 9 race deal gave Robby Gordon the positioning and the car that he needed to bring home his first oval-track top ten at Phoenix, then he capped the season off with a win at New Hampshire.
Robby Gordon’s first full season in Cup came in 2002 where he saw 5 top ten finishes.
racingusa.com /robbygordon.html   (426 words)

  
 ROBBY GORDON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On Thursday, April 12th, Robby Gordon will be at the Arizona Army National Guard Papago Park Installation to show his support of the United States military in conjunction with Phoenix International Raceway.
Gordon came off a weekend in which he scored top-five finishes in both the Nextel Cup and Busch series road races at Watkins Glen International, then went to Michigan and, filling in for buddy and Busch team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr., Gordon was third in Saturday's Busch race.
ELMIRA — Robby Gordon is a former multi-champion off-road racer.
www.robbygordon.com /cms/publish/cat_index_31.shtml   (425 words)

  
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Robby Gordon celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the Sirius at the Glen NASCAR Winston Cup race in Watkins Glen, N.Y., Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003.
The key for Robby Gordon was pitting when Rusty Wallace went off the course on the 51st of 90 laps.
Robby Gordon's Chevrolet beat the Dodge of road-course ace Scott Pruett by 2.33 seconds to take the $4 million Sirius at The Glen.
www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=6770   (699 words)

  
 rpm.espn.com: Robby Gordon
Gordon's 20th-place points finish was second-best among Childress' crew, and pretty much par for the down season the entire RCR team experienced.
Season lowlight: Gordon maintained his reputations for having too short a fuse when he kept ramming Jimmie Johnson in the rear during a restart late in the year.
Gordon and Johnson were both trying to get a lap back, but Gordon thought Johnson's car was slower so the rookie should have gotten out of the way.
espn.go.com /rpm/wc/spot02/rgordon.html   (376 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Robby Gordon: I don't think anybody was sandbagging during the Shootout.
Robby Gordon: Contracts are supposed to be signed today so in the very very near future we'll announce our Indy 500 plans.
Robby Gordon: Pre-race routine consists of a drivers' meeting, hospitality for Cingular Wireless and possibly another hospitality appearance.
cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20040211009/tscript.htm   (1924 words)

  
 Robby Gordon: IRL Racing, Robby Gordon IRL Merchandise, IRL Drivers, Robby Gordon Racing, Team Lowes Racing, Robby ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Gordon's first taste of NEXTEL Cup came in 1991, when he drove for Junie Donlavey in the Daytona 500.
While Gordon struggled in qualifying, missing three of those final nine events and using provisional starts in two others, he scored his first Cup oval track top-10 at Phoenix and then ended the season with a victory at New Hampshire.
Gordon's highlight of the season came when he finished second at Watkins Glen behind the wheel of the Jim Beam car.
www.racingone.com /driver.asp?driverid=71&subseries=11   (577 words)

  
 Winston-Salem Journal | Legend: Robby Gordon loves off-road racing
Gordon and his father, Bob, are two happy-go-lucky guys who have prided themselves on those family Baja vacations for about 30 years now - playing around on goat paths, deep sandy washes, and beautiful deserted beaches at 110 mph in high-tech space-buggies and 800-horsepower rock-throwing trophy trucks.
The Gordons are a bit pensive this week as they look ahead to what has long been one of their highlights of each year: the Baja 1000.
Robby just won the Baja 500 in June, over many of the same wild roads he'll run this week, some stretches that he's run so frequently, in both directions, he could do them in the dark of the night.
www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_ColumnistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128768118720&path=!sports&s=1037645509200   (1626 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - NASCAR - Robbie Gordon deserves heaping criticism
Robby must be really good to pull a three foot section from under the seat, fashion it through the net and not lose any time in the process.
Robby was going to finish no worse than 15th and the top 15 was crucial to make progress to 25th in the standings.
Robby Gordon has a second year Nextel Cup Effort a full time SCORE effort and is the only American to win a stage in the world's longest race and is going back to Africa to win it.
www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=146016   (3551 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - NASCAR : Robby Gordon hits speedbump
While Gordon couldn't control what happened on the Indianapolis track and finished 22nd, he was able to get himself to the Brickyard quite nicely.
Gordon improvised as he navigated his way to the track, jumping onto the tail of another caravan that did have an escort.
Gordon was ferried from an airport near Lowe's Motor Speedway to the track's aboard a helicopter owned by Carolinas Medical Center -- the only aircraft allowed in the speedway so close to race time, under the FAA's rules.
archive.sportingnews.com /nascar/articles/20030525/475195.html   (731 words)

  
 NASCAR.COM - Robby Gordon switching to Ford for 2007 season - Oct 14, 2006
All three of Gordon's career Cup victories came in Richard Childress Racing Chevrolets, but at the beginning of his career, Gordon was a Ford factory driver in family prepared off-road trucks and sports cars fielded by Roush Racing.
Gordon said his team has already begun preparation of Ford racecars and would use powerplants from Roush/Yates Engines next season, but that he would not test any Fords himself until after the 2006 season, when his current relationship with General Motors in NASCAR ends.
Gordon said in a worst-case scenario he wanted his Nextel Cup team to be a two-car operation by 2008, and also said he planned to field Ford Fusions in the Busch Series, though he provided no details.
www.nascar.com /2006/news/headlines/cup/10/14/rgordon.mwallace.charlotte/index.html   (547 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
NASCAR Cup Series driver Robby Gordon has been busy since the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway: after trekking across the Baja Peninsula to start his team's Trophy Truck in the Baja 1000, the California native flew back to Florida to run in his final race for Richard Childress Racing.
Gordon will compete in 2005 as both driver and owner of his own Cup team under the banner he developed for his NASCAR Busch Series car and his SCORE off-road truck - Robby Gordon Motorsports, and the team has been busy gearing up for the Daytona 500, the season opener.
Gordon was invited to test with the Volkswagen Race Touareg team in September.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=174529&FS=NASCAR-CUP   (553 words)

  
 Robby Gordon - The Huffington Post
Robby Gordon: He's been in the news for all of the wrong reasons this past week, but Gordon is looking forward to getting back on the...
Robby Gordon avoided a lengthy suspension Tuesday when NASCAR fined him $35,000 and placed him on probation through the end of the year for his misconduct during the Busch Series race in Montreal.
Robby Gordon avoided a lengthy suspension Tuesday when NASCAR fined him $35,000 and placed him on probation through the end of the year for...
www.huffingtonpost.com /people/Robby+Gordon   (1222 words)

  
 Robby Gordon Motorsports Robby Gordon Motorsports, Robby Gordon, AUTO RACING - CBS SportsLine.com
Gordon was directed to AuctionCause by eBay, and the company helped him re-list the helmet at a starting bid of $5,000.
Gordon threw the helmet at Waltrip after they were involved in an accident during Sunday's race at New Hampshire International Speedway.
Gordon was fined a total of $35,000 and docked 50 driver points by NASCAR for the actions.
www.sportsline.com /autoracing/story/8875072   (582 words)

  
 RacingPress.com Feature Story :: Robby Gordon returns to Cup ownership ranks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Saying that having the number 7 on his car is no accident, Robby Gordon made it official this afternoon and announced that he will move his Busch Series team to Nextel Cup Series racing this year as an owner driver.
Gordon also talked about his departure from Richard Childress, saying that he was not fired and that there is no rift between him and Childress.
Gordon also hinted that that he will be returning to the Indianapolis 500 this year.
www.racingpress.com /publish/gerg011805.shtml   (421 words)

  
 Motor Sports: Robby Gordon has plenty of critics ---- and success North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest ...
The team plans to improve with Robby Gordon in the car, but it can't be overlooked that the driver brings sponsorship to the team.
Robby Gordon also owns his Busch Series team, which is fifth in the season standings.
Robby Gordon draws criticism for being so busy or for being distracted with feuds and other types of racing.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/04/24/sports/professional/24_00_074_24_04.txt   (1674 words)

  
 NBC's Parsons: Gunning for Robby Gordon - NASCAR - MSNBC.com
Robby Gordon's road course racing experience will work in his favor in  Sunday's Nextel Cup race at Infineon (Calif.) Raceway, says Benny Parsons of NBCSports.com.
Robby Gordon could not be beaten last year in the two Cup road course races.
In last year's win at Infineon, Robby Gordon's pass of RCR teammate Kevin Harvick with the caution out on Lap 71 was legal under the rules in place at the time, but it was still questioned by Harvick and Jeff Gordon, who finished runner-up.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5279182   (1198 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Robby Gordon leaves his bad luck in Baja
Gordon, a long-time off-road racer, returned to his desert roots and raced his Chevrolet Trophy Truck in the grueling 708-mile event.
Plagued by shock problems, Gordon was the 14th finisher in his class and completed the trek in 20 hours and 17 minutes.
Gordon, a two-time winner of the Baja 1000, plans to race a Hummer H3 in next month's Dakar Rally, a 6,000-mile off-road endurance race from Lisbon, Portugal, to Dakar, Senegal.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sports/2005/nov/23/519710101.html   (615 words)

  
 RaceZing Designs - Racing Website Design
Robby Gordon returned to NASCAR Winston Cup this weekend at Sonoma in a one race deal with Jim Smith's #7 Nations Rent team.
Gordon agreed to let him back on the lead lap if a caution were to come out so there was no need for Harvick to press the issue.
Robby Gordon's performance and behavior (both on and off the track) this weekend might very well have earned him another shot at being a Winston Cup driver.
www.racezing.com /story1.html   (1393 words)

  
 Robby Gordon: Drivers: NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Chevy Racing: Chevrolet
Robby took five GTO checkered flags in 1991 and won a Trans-Am race in 1992.
Robby’s first taste of Cup racing actually came in 1991, when he entered the Daytona 500 for Junie Donlavey.
Robby then signed on with Richard Childress Racing to take the driver’s seat of the No. 31 Chevrolet after Mike Skinner elected to have reconstructive knee surgery with nine races left in the season.
www.chevrolet.com /chevyracing/nextel/drivers/gordon_r   (406 words)

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