Robby Gordon to pull triple duty

[Lugnut]

Next weekend Robby Gordon will drive three different race cars in two different racing series in two countries. The NEXTEL Cup series will be racing in Dover DE and the Baja 500 is racing in Encinada, Mexico. Robby will be competing in both.

http://www.robbygordon.com/cms/publish/article_698.shtml

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The 37-year-old driver will travel approximately 11,200 miles by air during the odyssey (nearly half the distance around the world) and more than 1,100 miles on the ground.


Less than eight hours after the completion of Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, his journey will begin with his first cross-country flight to Ensenada where he will spend three days practicing (or pre-running) both a Red Bull/Toyo Tires-sponsored Chevrolet CK1500 Trophy Truck and a Jim Beam/Toyo Tires-sponsored Hummer H3. Gordon will make the 2,800-mile flight to Dover on Thursday evening before practicing and qualifying his Mapei and Menards-sponsored Chevrolet Monte Carlo Friday. Following Friday’s NASCAR sessions, he will again return to Ensenada where he will take the green flag in the Baja 500 at approximately 9 a.m. (PDT) Saturday.


He will start the Baja 500 in the Trophy Truck and drive approximately half of the race before turning the wheel over to his teammate Andy McMillin who will take the truck to the finish line (McMillin campaigns the Team Gordon truck full-time in the SCORE International Off-Road Series).


Shortly after Gordon starts the 500, his father, Bob, will start in the Hummer H3 where he will also drive half way and then turn the truck over to the younger Gordon who will in all likelihood complete the 424-mile course in the H3.

[MaineDem]

1. I find it difficult to be impressed by anything Robbie G does

And to see he's driving a Hummer at Baja doesn't help.

[Chemical Bill]

2. Go Robbie!

He's won in Baja, and competed at Dakar. If he had taken Dakar with more caution, he might have finished, but he put up a good showing while running. I also like the way he throws a helmet. :evilgrin:

Bill

[Lugnut]

3. 8th place overall at Dakar

Robby won the 6th stage as well. Videos of segments from the entire rally are up at You Tube. Team USA broke a few records this trip.

1.First American Born and Raised Driver/Nav Team to win a Dakar Stage.

2.Co-Pilot Andy Grider became the first American Navigator to provide direction to a stage win.

3. Hummer was the first US manufacturer to win a Dakar Stage.

4. In 2005 Robby was and still is the only American to win a stage... multiple stages and today Robby extended that to 3.

5. First and only Dakar racer ever to design and win on his own brand wheels.

6. First and only American to Design and win with his own Brand Shocks.

7. First American Based racing team to build, prepare, support and win a stage in the Dakar Rally.

8. First Team to give Toyo Tires a stage win in the Dakar Rally.

9. First American to drive his own car to a stage win in Dakar.

10.First team to film and produce in the field thier own YouTube.Com Web Site (Ranked top 20 on the 6th most viewed site in the world).