When NASCAR restarted the race with Robby behind Marcos, it did two things. Robby had been cost the race by getting spun out, and now Robby was going to spin out Marcos so that the Australian rookie couldn’t win the race. I wouldn’t have restarted the race until I had gotten Robby off the track on a rollback because it cost Marcos Ambrose a win. You could say Marcos cost Robby a win by spinning him out, but Robby didn’t heed the black flag. He had been told to get in the proper position, and he chose not to. Darrell Waltrip, FoxSports
Aug 08, 2007
Robby reacted based on the fact that he was sure he had been treated unfairly, and who’s to argue…he believes what he believes, and that’s that. Not listening to NASCAR even if you feel it’s not fair isn’t the wisest thing to do, in fact I’m sure there is no way it could ever work in your favor. But Robby being Robby…he went with his gut and lost sight of the big picture, unfortunately also losing sight of the wrath of NASCAR as well.
NASCAR puts up with quite a bit, they really do. They get bad mouthed and fussed about. They get accused of being partial on one weekend and blind on another. They’re cheered for their innovation and jeered for their old fashioned traditions. But all in all, they do a pretty good job of governing a huge group of unruly, cocky, loud mouthed risk taking drivers and their teams. Amy Hair, Cup Scene Daily
Aug 08, 2007
Robby Gordon was W-R-O-N-G. That’s the bottom line. NASCAR is the governing body, and what it says goes—like it or not. Every driver believes he has been wronged by either another competitor or NASCAR pretty much in every race. We can’t be having drivers becoming judge and jury, or worse a vigilante, on the track. I don’t like suspending a driver in Cup for actions in Busch, but then again, this was an extreme case. De Los Santos and Charlie McCarthy, CBS.SportsLine
Aug 08, 2007
Next, you need to get back in line where NASCAR tells you dude.
Then you should not spin out the leader even if he was the guy that spun you out at the point of the caution.
Finally, when someone else wins the race, you do not do co-burnouts because you think you won the race. As entertaining as it all was, it is just not cool. Chuck Abrams, InsiderRacingNews.com
Aug 08, 2007
Considering all of the altercations with teammates and other drivers that Gordon has been involved in over his career – or even the numerous one-car spins or multi-car wrecks he’s caused – it seems to me that Robby Gordon has definitely upped his “stupid bar” another notch or two this time. Tommy Thompson, Frontstretch.com
Aug 07, 2007
NASCAR announced today that Robby Gordon, driver and owner of the No. 55 Ford in the NASCAR Busch Series, has been fined $35,000 and placed on probation until Dec. 31, 2007 due to a rule violation during last Saturday’s race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.
Gordon was found to be in violation of Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) of the 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Rule Book.
Aug 07, 2007
Gordon became the first driver parked by NASCAR since April 2002, when officials sat Kevin Harvick down for the Cup race in Martinsville. Yes, Jimmy Spencer wasn’t allowed to compete in the night race at Bristol in 2003 after he punched Kurt Busch after a race at Michigan the week before. But officials couldn’t exactly “park” Spencer, since the race in question had already been completed. Instead, he was suspended for the following race. The infractions of Harvick, and more recently Gordon, took place before the running of those particular weekend’s Cup events. Kenny Bruce, SceneDaily.com
Aug 07, 2007
Robby Gordon: “I’ve had a bunch of drivers come up and say, ‘That one was wrong,’ or whatever. I’ve got to be honest, I probably did some of the wrong things after the race but I got put in a position to do the wrong things. If I feel what was a judgment call was a bad judgment call I felt I had the right to express that. The caution had come out and I had slowed to abide by the caution when I got hit from behind and Marcos spun me.” MotorsportsNews
Aug 07, 2007
Robby Gordon’s colorful nature has benefited him greatly over the last few years. As a single-car driver/owner, his chances of winning from week to week hovered between slim and none.
But for sponsors who couldn’t align themselves with a top-tier organization, he became one of the best choices as far as also-rans were concerned. On one TV show last year, he said something to the effect of how Robby Gordon Motorsports wanted to be a race team but was more of a marketing company by necessity.
Aug 07, 2007
“His actions were certainly disruptive to the orderly conduct of the event,” said Kerry Tharp, NASCAR director of communications. “Way over the line when it comes to conduct on the track.”
NASCAR responded by suspending Gordon for Sunday’s Nextel Cup series race at Pocono.
Aug 07, 2007
Robby, Robby, Robby…What went wrong during Saturday’s Busch race in Montreal? Does anybody know? I mean, save from Robby Gordon being kicked out of Sunday’s Nextel Cup Pocono race by NASCAR, of course. Was that called for? Well, let’s see what I can decide.
So, what exactly happened on Saturday? See, this is the first problem. Nobody really saw…I doubt even NASCAR got a look at what transpired between his No. 55 and Marcos Ambrose’s No. 59. At the moment that the field was busy spinning into a pile of debris behind Robby and Marcos, Robby was putting the moves on the No. 59’s rear bumper.
Aug 06, 2007
NASCAR ruled that Marcos had the lead and that Robby was to restart the race behind the 33 car of Ron Fellows and that was to be in 15th place. However, Robby Gordon simply decided to ignore NASCAR’s directive and stayed in second position on the track, even though he knew he was in line for the black flag.
As the race restarted with a green-white-checkers, Robby got into the back of Ambrose’s 59 car and sent him for a spin. No surprise that Robby would do this though. At that point, the battle was on between Kevin Harvick, Patrick Carpentier, and Max Papis. Much banging and bumping occurred between these three drivers over the final lap and a half.
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