Robby Gordon gets Parked at Cup

The short of it:

Robby Gordon has been parked for today's Nextel Cup race at Pocono Raceway. P.J. Jones will drive the No. 7 Robby Gordon Motorsports Ford for Gordon.

The long of it:

"Toward the end of Saturday's race at Montreal, Robby Gordon demonstrated blatant disrespect and disregard for NASCAR directives on multiple occasions," NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said. "His actions were certainly disruptive to the orderly conduct of the event." (nascar-bits.blogspot.com)

Gordon becomes part of an "illustrious" group of Cup drivers for being parked for their actions.

He joins Alum Kevin Harvick (2002). Jimmy Spencer missed a race in 2003, but he was serving a one-race suspension for punching Kurt Busch (heh heh) at Michigan when he was forced to sit out the following week at Bristol.

http://www.scenedaily.com/

http://www.nascar.com/

I wonder if we'll hear from Robby Gordon about this issue!?

UPDATE: Well, Robby did make a comment, and it can be found at
http://www.robbygordon.com/cms/publish/index.shtml
But as I write, the site is loading very slowly, presumably from the amount of people headed over there to look.

For the record: Robby made a bad move in a bad situation.

I think he was right. He should have been put back in the spot he was spun from, if indeed, he was spun under yellow.

I understand why he did what he did.. To have listened to NASCAR officials would have put him outside the top 10. (But he'd be driving today if he did.) If they had heard his appeal, then where he finished might have been awarded to him. That was the premise of his continueing. (HELLO, Robby? When has NASCAR ever gone back on a call, even when they are wrong?) But the parking stems from not adhering to NASCAR's instructions.

I think what's occurred here will open the spotlight on this kind of scenario because Robby noted that these kind of scenario's have occurred before.

Good idea Robby, bad execution.