Food City 500 - Robby Gordon Notes

Robby Gordon
Team Cingular
Event Preview Fact Sheet
Event/Date: Food City 500/March 28, 2004
Venue: Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway

NASCAR Cup Points Position: 24th (gained eight positions last weekend)

NOTES:

This Week’s Race Car at Bristol Motor Speedway (chassis No. 105) is going for three-in-a-row this weekend after running at Atlanta and Darlington in the last two weeks helping Gordon jump 13 positions in the NASCAR standings, posting a fourth-place season-best finish last weekend. In March 2003, Gordon also drove the same chassis to a 17th-place finish at Bristol, his best finish ever at that speedway

At Bristol Motor Speedway, Gordon also will be competing as a driver and team owner in the NASCAR Busch Series Sharpie Professional 250 Saturday, March 27, behind the wheel of the No. 55 Team Gordon Fruit of the Loom Chevrolet.

Qualifying for the Sharpie Professional 250 will broadcast live 1:30 p.m. EDT Fri., March 26, on SPEED, MRN and XM Radio. The Sharpie Professional 250 will broadcast live 1 p.m. EDT Sat., March 27, on FOX, PRN and XM Radio.

The Food City 500 will be broadcast live 1 p.m. EDT Sunday, March 28, on FOX, PRN and XM Radio. Qualifying for the Food City 500 will broadcast live Friday, March 26, starting at 3:10 p.m. EDT on SPEED, PRN and XM Radio.

ROBBY GORDON QUOTES

On Bristol:

“I like Bristol. For me, Darlington and Bristol are a lot alike in the way the No. 31 Team Cingular Chevrolet runs well at both places, but the final results never show it. Well, they finally did show it this past weekend. Hopefully, we can go to Bristol with some momentum from Darlington and have some good luck and be able to position ourselves to finish inside the top 10 with all three RCR teams.”

“From what everyone has been saying the tires are going to be interesting at Bristol. We didn’t test there, but Ron Hornaday did with the No. 2 Busch car. We share information throughout the house at RCR, so we are going to be ok. Swapping information between Busch and Cup played a crucial role for us in Darlington, so we’ll see if it helps again this weekend.”

On Darlington:

“Darlington simply felt good for everyone on the Cingular Wireless team and at RCR as a whole. Darlington was a perfect example of why it is so beneficial to run a Busch and Cup car. I guess it is like they say two heads are better than one. It really paid off for everyone last Sunday.”