Breaking News: Gordon Leaving Ford
Friday, February 1st, 2008 2:19pm UTC
By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Published on Thunder Lounge.
Robby Gordon confirms that Robby Gordon Motorsports will leave Ford and embrace Dodge, and has signed a “Technological and marketing agreement” with Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
Technically, that isn’t too much of a switch with the new car. However, such a deal coming about this close to Daytona has to make one wonder the ol’ WTF question.
There has to be something in it for him. A logical guess is not getting squat for support from Ford. Then again, who knows. Keep your eyes peeled, this could get some attention in the coming days.
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Well, all things considered, not surprising. Ford – staid corporate giant married to Gordon the renegade.
It all figures, but I suspect there’s more under the covers.
First he went from Chevy to Ford so that he could move up the pecking order. Now he moves to Dodge with an agreement with GEM. That has to be the key to the switch as now he will have a ready supply of engines and technical support. For his sake hopefully GEM has their engineering problems from ’07 worked out.
I wonder what the deal is. Is it something that’s going to be limited?
Was the deal with Ford so “open”, or “limited”, that he could jump ship so easily? If so, I would venture to guess he wasn’t supported as well as he could have been. He was the 2nd highest Ford stable, right behind Jack.
What could be the limitations with Dodge? Could the time limit be short, and if so, could that potentially lead Dodge to pressure GEM to limit the amount of information being shared?
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