Cingular Wireless Racing
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Event/Date:       Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500/October 26, 2003
Venue:  Atlanta Motor Speedway 

Robby Gordon’s NASCAR Winston Cup Performance History at Atlanta Motor Speedway

Date	Start	Finish	Laps Completed/ Total Laps	Status	Money
03/09/03	18	17	323/325	Running	$77,912
10/27/02	20	20	247/248	Running	90,556
03/10/02	23	18	324/325	Running	72,246
11/18/01	DNQ
03/11/01	41	20	323/325	Running	49,346
11/20/00	33	27	321/325	Running	36,005
03/12/00	DNQ
03/9/97	1	14	327/328	Running	42,935

 TOTALS      Avg. Start: 22.67      Avg. Finish: 19.3           Laps: 1,865/1,876  Money: $ 369,000

 NASCAR Winston Cup Points Position: 16th (dropped one position from last week)

 NOTES:

 ROBBY GORDON QUOTES:

“We’ve had good runs in the past at Atlanta and it’s one of the race tracks I really enjoy to drive. We had an up-and-down day all day at Atlanta in March. We were really good in Happy Hour when it was overcast but the Cingular Wireless Chevrolet was really tight when we started the race and then would get loose. The guys worked hard on making adjustments each time we pitted and we made up some ground and got up to 15th. We really had probably a 12th-place car there at the end but we couldn’t get our lap back and could only move up so far as a result. If I could have just restarted next to the leader that last time, we could have gotten our lap back and it would have been a different ball game.  We had a car to run with them there in the end.  Hopefully, we’ll be stronger out of the box Sunday morning this time around.

 “We’ve got four races left to try to make up some ground.  I really thought we were going to get a big boost in the points at Martinsville but I got caught up in some other guys’ wreck late in the race and ended up behind the wall for a little while.  We were running seventh at the time and we honestly thought we had a car capable of winning the race.  If we weren’t going to win, we were definitely going to be patient and take what the car would give us, because it was going to put us closer to our goal of top 10 in points.  Unfortunately, that wasn’t meant to be.  We are going to keep digging the last four races because we are not mathematically out of the top 10 yet.  It’s just going to depend on how the season plays out with everyone else.

 “I’ve struggled at Atlanta ever since they re-configured the track a few years ago. I sat on the pole at Atlanta the first two times I raced there — in the 1990 ARCA race and 1997 Winston Cup race.  But it takes a completely different line to get around the track now than it did back when I won the pole.  Getting around Atlanta is an art in itself because there are some pretty big bumps on the track.  If I drive the Cingular Wireless Chevrolet into turn one and drive the normal line, I’ll ride over some fairly large bumps.  Either the car has to work really well or we have to compensate for that in order to get through the bumps.  The sooner you can get back in the gas coming off turn two, the quicker your lap is going to be.  The quicker lap is on the bottom of the race track for qualifying but that will completely change in the race.  In the race after the tires wear down a little bit, guys will be running really high on the track.

 “When you go down the backstretch and off into turn three, it looks completely different than turn one.  From a driver’s point of view, it doesn’t seem like turn three is banked as much as turn one. Plus, there aren’t any real bumps getting into three, although there are some halfway between turns three and four.  The track seems like it flattens out more coming off of turns three and four than it does exiting one and two.”

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