[Nevadastars]

According to the video, it sure looked like Robby Gordon threw a chunk of rollbar padding out to cause a caution at Atlanta. Jeff Burton sure wasnt pleased with it and made good points about finding the culprit and fineing them severely. Gordon said it wasnt him and it came out from under his car. I'm not so sure.....

[atown85]

they have some very good replays of it and when showed to RG, it was tough for him to disagree with it. He said it looked like it came from the back of the car. BS!!!!!!!! Cheater and should be fined plus some.

[nascarfan24]

didn't that whole interview look creepy?
they were in between two haulers in the dark and robby looked very guilty!

[Nevadastars]

Originally Posted by nascarfan24

didn't that whole interview look creepy?
they were in between two haulers in the dark and robby looked very guilty!

It sure did! It was almost like they were cornering Robbie in a dark alley, saying "look what dirt we got on you!". He looked surprised at the whole thing, but also looked like he had egg on his face after he saw the vid.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Nevadastars

It sure did! It was almost like they were cornering Robbie in a dark alley, saying "look what dirt we got on you!". He looked surprised at the whole thing, but also looked like he had egg on his face after he saw the vid.

If he is guilty, and he sure as hell looks like it... He made a good play by telling one of the crew in front of the cameras to look at the car and see if anything was missing. I haven't seen Jeff get that fired up in a long time.

[Speed Demon]

I don't think Jeff Gordon was cryin about it. I believe it was Jeff Burton and he had a good reason to be mad as hell. If it was Jr. that it happened to you know they either would have waited to call the caution until he got his lap back or launch a "real" investigation.

[Speed Demon]

. . . and could Robby say it came out from under his car -- how could he know????????
When and why would his pit crew start padding rollbar under his car! What an idiot!

[wingkey1]

I apologize if the answer to this question proves me to be asleep at the wheel, but help me here -

Was there an/some advantage gained by RG by doing this? Was he about to go a lap down or something?

Again sorry if the answer should be obvius to me.

Clearly hurt Burton, at least from my point of view.

[Nevadastars]

Originally Posted by Speed Demon

. . . and could Robby say it came out from under his car -- how could he know????????
When and why would his pit crew start padding rollbar under his car! What an idiot!

Whats funny, is he said it looked like it came out from under his car.........yet it never showed him run over anything. Either way, since he was just about ready to go a lap down, it was a perfectly timed caution. Jimmy Spencer was accused of tossing out roll bar padding several years ago, so it wouldnt be the first time.

[LSC9901]

FROM NASCAR.COM



Robby Gordon said he thinks the debris came from the rear of his car, not the window. Credit: AutostockR. Gordon lucky, Burton not-so after debris yellow

Gordon denies throwing padding out window to get late free pass

By Ryan Smithson, NASCAR.COM
October 29, 2006
08:44 PM EST (01:44 GMT)
On Lap 290, a small piece of debris emerged from around the No. 7 Chevrolet of Robby Gordon, who was the first car a lap down. The resulting caution put Gordon back on the lead lap, and he rallied to finish 10th.
Gordon denied that he threw debris out the window to create the caution. The piece was suspected to be foam rubber padding commonly used to cover roll bars.
"I definitely didn't throw anything out the window, so I don't know," Gordon told NBC after the race. "It looked like it came out the back of the car actually."
NASCAR reviewed the tape of the incident and said it was inconclusive.
Jeff Burton, who finished 13th, disagreed.
He said that drivers occasionally throw roll-bar padding onto the track to create needed cautions, and he called on NASCAR to investigate.
"We were going to be OK and they threw the caution for a piece of roll-bar padding," Burton said. "They ought to stop every car on pit road, and they ought to check every car."
Burton had just completed a pit stop seven laps prior to the caution and was seeking a stretch of green-flag racing to stay on pit cycle with everyone else. That didn't happen when the caution flew.
"Whoever threw the roll bar padding out, they ought to fine them 185 points and fine them 100 grand, because it is a huge impact on the race and it is ridiculous and it happens too often. They need to figure out who did it and penalize them."
During a Busch race at Texas Motor Speedway in April, Reed Sorenson allegedly threw a piece of roll-bar padding out the window in an attempt to create a caution.
NASCAR gave Sorenson a black flag for the incident, but he did not face additional NASCAR sanctions, which are usually distributed during the middle of the week.

[Nevadastars]

The problem with Burtons statement, is I dont think they are mandated to put a certain amount of padding in their cars. Plus, there is no way they could just grab a piece and toss it out. Padding we used on our race cars were zip-tied in, and needed to be cut off. If anyone is throwing padding out, it is already loose in the car just for that reason.
My point is, there is no way they could check each car for missing padding.

[LSC9901]

I'd hate to think that in todays world of competitive sports that they would have to resort to tactics such as those but with the sponsor pressures for good finishes, who knows. He is currently in 27th place in the points standings so staying in the top 35 shouldn't have been an issue. If he did do it, which has not yet been proven, my guess is that it has a lot to do with sponsor $$$$

[drnascar48]

If you remeber that the guy from NBC said that Robby Gordon had to go find a hat but I really think that his crew cheif was telling him to make up alot of BS and lie about throwing the piece of rollbar padding out his car. So when NBC showed the replay to robby gordon and after they showed his face you could tell that he was nervous about and that NASACR will find out about. He could also been thinking what to say and the rist thing that came out of his mouth was that it was piece from under my car it looks like. But I think if NASCAR and NBC would look inside of his car they would find a piece of rollbar padding missing. This is what I think NBC should have done last night. They should have got Robby gordon, His crew cheif, Nascar officials, Mike Helton, and Jeff Burton and they should have walked over to Robby Gordon's race car and looked at the inside of his race car and they would have found were the piece of rollbar padding was. Also in that interview last night with Robby Gordon I remember him saying that he had one bad pit stop tat hole night. He said the pit stop to long. I think the reason why that pit stop took to long is because he was trying to get that piece of rollbar padding off of the rollbar he he could throw it out of his car. That is what I think.

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Speed Demon

I don't think Jeff Gordon was cryin about it. I believe it was Jeff Burton and he had a good reason to be mad as hell. If it was Jr. that it happened to you know they either would have waited to call the caution until he got his lap back or launch a "real" investigation.

Uhmm... I didn't say Jeff Gordon. I just said Jeff. I was referring to Burton, If I was referring to Gordon I would have said that cryin whiny-a$$ Gordon.

[nascarfan24]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

I'd hate to think that in todays world of competitive sports that they would have to resort to tactics such as those but with the sponsor pressures for good finishes, who knows. He is currently in 27th place in the points standings so staying in the top 35 shouldn't have been an issue. If he did do it, which has not yet been proven, my guess is that it has a lot to do with sponsor $$$$

i hate it
nascar is like the only sport where some mega contraversy doesn't ever happen and now it's seeping in!