108 Facts About Robby Gordon

Robert Wesley Gordon was born on January 2,1969 and is an American former auto racing driver.

Robby Gordon has raced in NASCAR, CART, the IndyCar Series, the Trans-Am Series, IMSA, IROC and the Dakar Rally.

Robby Gordon owns and competes in the Stadium Super Trucks, a series he formed in 2013 and whose championship he won in 2013 and 2014.

Robby Gordon operates the Speed family of brands, which includes the energy drink Speed Energy that has sponsored his racing efforts since 2010.

Robby Gordon won two championships in the Mickey Thompson stadium series, three Baja 500 in 1989,1990, and 2005, and three Baja 1000 in 1987,1989, and 2006.

Robby Gordon participated the last SCORE International off road race at the now closed Riverside Raceway in 1988.

Robby Gordon has continued off-road racing throughout his career in Champ Car and NASCAR.

In 2005 Robby Gordon took part in the famous 16-day Dakar Rally, driving for the Red Bull sponsored Volkswagen team.

Robby Gordon became the first American to win a stage in the car division.

Robby Gordon won two stages in total and a 12th place division finish.

In 2006, Robby Gordon took part in the Dakar Rally in a Hummer H3.

Robby Gordon finished in the 8th position, his best finish in this race.

Robby Gordon raced in selected Traxxas TORC Series events, including the 2010 AMSOIL Cup World Championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway.

Robby Gordon led the first lap of the race before retiring with mechanical difficulties.

Robby Gordon finished 3rd in the 2009 Dakar Rally in South America, where the event was moved after terrorist threats led to the cancellation of the 2008 event.

Robby Gordon finished 8th in the 2010 Dakar Rally in South America with his Monster Energy truck.

Robby Gordon was excluded from the 2012 edition after stage 10 for illegal modifications of his engine.

In June 2012, Robby Gordon announced that he was founding and owning a stadium truck racing series of his own, titled the Stadium Super Trucks, based on the stadium truck racing concept developed by Mickey Thompson.

Robby Gordon won the inaugural Stadium Super Truck championship in 2013, by seven points following a year-long battle with former Mickey Thompson Off-Road teammate Rob MacCachren.

Robby Gordon's series was renamed to Speed Energy Formula Off-Road in 2014.

Robby Gordon won a second championship that year with six wins and a 75-point advantage over Sheldon Creed.

That year, the series made its X Games debut as part of X Games Austin 2014, where Robby Gordon finished third and won a bronze medal.

Later in the year, Robby Gordon participated in the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Britain.

In June 2017, the night following an SST race at Hidden Valley Raceway in Australia's Darwin, Northern Territory, Robby Gordon took a truck to a local nightclub and began to perform donuts.

Robby Gordon defended his action, stating he had asked security guards if it was allowed, to which they agreed.

Four months later, Robby Gordon issued an apology to CAMS and donated $10,000 to the Australian Road Safety Foundation, resulting in his visa ban being lifted.

In 2018, the series was banned by CAMS for safety reasons following a wreck at Barbagallo Raceway that sent a truck's wheel into a vacant pedestrian bridge; despite legal action from Robby Gordon, SST lost the case.

CAMS ended the ban in 2019 as the sanctioning body and Robby Gordon formed a three-year commercial rights agreement, branding the series' Australian operations the Boost Mobile Super Trucks; the new Australian championship began in 2020.

Robby Gordon's first start in the CART IndyCar series came in 1992.

For 1999, Robby Gordon fielded his own team in the series with little success as the Toyota power the team used was still sub-par in performance.

Robby Gordon raced 10 times in the Indy 500 from 1993 to 2004 fielding his own team in 1999,2000 and 2004.

In 1999, Robby Gordon came within one lap of winning the Indianapolis 500.

Robby Gordon inherited the lead by virtue of not stopping for a final pit stop and tried to conserve enough fuel to last until the end of the race.

Robby Gordon's fuel ran out coming out of turn 3 on second last lap and he had to give up the lead to Sweden's Kenny Brack.

In 2001, Robby Gordon, following his departure from Morgan-McClure Motorsports, re-joined Foyt's team for the Indianapolis 500.

Robby Gordon made his debut in stock car racing in November 1990 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, driving for Junie Donlavey in the Automobile Racing Club of America season finale; he finished 21st, but turned heads by winning the pole for the event.

In 1993, Robby Gordon drove the No 28 Texaco-sponsored Ford for Robert Yates Racing at Talladega in the team's first race after the death of driver Davey Allison.

In 1994, Robby Gordon drove in one race for Michael Kranefuss starting and finishing 38th at Michigan.

In 1996, Robby Gordon raced at Charlotte in what was one of the first starts ever for Dale Earnhardt, Inc He raced at Rockingham and Phoenix for Felix Sabates.

Robby Gordon raced in 22 starts with SABCO, and captured the pole at Atlanta.

Robby Gordon finished fourth at Watkins Glen, his only Top 10 finish of the year.

Robby Gordon returned to NASCAR full-time in 2000, attempting to run his own team.

Robby Gordon started the 2001 season driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports in the No 4 Kodak-sponsored Chevrolet, but was replaced by Kevin Lepage after only five races.

Jeff was black flagged while attempting to retaliate under caution, and Robby Gordon went on to earn a controversial first career victory.

Robby Gordon continued to race for Richard Childress Racing in 2002.

Robby Gordon crashed in the Daytona 500 and had a string of poor finishes in the spring.

Robby Gordon performed well at Sonoma and led the most laps at Watkins Glen with 21 and finished third.

Robby Gordon had a Top 10 run at the Bank of America 500 but crashed in a 10-car pileup which collected teammates Jeff Green and Kevin Harvick.

Robby Gordon finished 20th in the final points standings, which was, at the time, his highest finishing position in his career.

In 2003, Robby Gordon broke out and compiled his best season statistically.

Robby Gordon finished sixth in the Daytona 500 and finished 10th in the Aaron's 499.

Robby Gordon led 29 laps at Richmond and finished fourth in the rain-shortened race.

Robby Gordon continued running well during July, finishing seventh at Chicagoland, and then sixth at the 2003 Brickyard 400.

Robby Gordon took his third career win later in the year at Watkins Glen.

Robby Gordon led 22 laps at Talladega before finishing fifth, and then led 16 laps at Watkins Glen, racing Tony Stewart for the win late in the race.

Robby Gordon then was involved in a controversial incident with Greg Biffle at Loudon that led to NASCAR slapping the No 31 team with a two-lap penalty, a $15,000 fine and a 50-point deduction in the point standings, and led to the team putting Gordon on probation.

In 2006, Robby Gordon's team used engines from Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Robby Gordon performed well at Sonoma and Watkins Glen, qualifying and finishing in the Top 10 in both races.

Robby Gordon started his season with a 15th-place finish in the 2007 Daytona 500, and picked up a few Top 10 finishes, before he had a break-out race at Sears Point in which he qualified second, led a race-high 48 laps, and finished 16th.

Robby Gordon had two Top 10s by year's end, and finished 26th in points.

On February 1,2008, Robby Gordon said he would go to Dodge in 2008, marking his 4th change in as many years.

Robby Gordon announced a technical, manufacturing and marketing services agreement with Gillett Evernham Motorsports.

Robby Gordon competed in fewer races in 2010, as Jim Beam did not renew its contract.

In January 2010, Robby Gordon formed an alliance with BAM Racing, his sixth change in six years.

Robby Gordon performed well at Sonoma in the Toyota Save Mart 350 and ended up second to Jimmie Johnson, which secured some part-time sponsorship for RGM.

Robby Gordon secured a sponsorship to compete in the 2012 Daytona 500, but poor performance resulted in Gordon racing only at Phoenix and the road-course race at Sonoma.

Robby Gordon failed to qualify for early-season races at Las Vegas and Fontana.

At that point, sponsorship money dried up, and Robby Gordon's team made no further starts in 2012.

In 2013, Robby Gordon officially closed his NASCAR team in Charlotte and changed his shop to form the Stadium Super Truck series.

In 2005, Robby Gordon Motorsports participated in 4 Busch Series Races with two races being on the road courses in Mexico City, and Watkins Glen, and two being on oval tracks.

Robby Gordon participated in several Busch races in 2006, including a few for Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Robby Gordon was able to save his car, as Busch went down the final straightaway to win the race.

In 2007, Robby Gordon only had a few top tens in the NBS and came near to a win at Montreal before being disqualified by NASCAR for ignoring a penalty.

Robby Gordon, to make up for the incident, gave Ambrose a free race for RGM at Watkins Glen International the next weekend to make his first Sprint Cup start but because of rain, Ambrose did not qualify.

Robby Gordon started the Watkins Glen race in his No 55 Jim Beam Dodge in 2nd place and finished in 19th position.

In 2009, Robby Gordon cut his Busch season to just one single race, at Watkins Glen.

Robby Gordon dominated the last 20 laps of the race but ran out of fuel with two laps to go handing the win to colleague veteran Boris Said and resulted in the top 20 in the finish.

Robby Gordon led 5 laps but broke down from engine failure, finishing 31st.

Robby Gordon has run 4 career Craftsman Truck Series races with one top-5 and 2 top-10 finishes.

Robby Gordon has run for Team SABCO, Bobby Hamilton Racing, and Morgan-Dollar Motorsports.

Robby Gordon competed twice in the Race of Champions, first in 2001 in Gran Canaria, where he broke the lap time record.

In 2014, Robby Gordon competed in the Nations Cup for Team Americas alongside 2014 World Touring Car champion Jose Maria Lopez.

In May 2017, while the Stadium Super Trucks were at Barbagallo Raceway in Perth, Robby Gordon made his Aussie Racing Cars debut.

Robby Gordon shared the No 57 car with fellow SST driver Sheldon Creed; the car was usually run by Bill Hynes, but Hynes wished to focus on SST.

Robby Gordon has been involved in numerous controversies throughout his racing career.

The angered Robby Gordon got out of his totaled car and threw his helmet at the No 15 car as it was passing by.

Robby Gordon passed Ambrose to take the lead at the same time as a multi-car wreck was unfolding behind them; Ambrose spun him, under a yellow flag, to reclaim it seconds later.

Robby Gordon, who had a strong race all day, refused to go to that position, and was black flagged after the restart, and after spinning out Ambrose.

Robby Gordon did not come in for his penalty and was then given the black flag with diagonal white cross, meaning that his subsequent laps were no longer being scored.

Robby Gordon announced in a post-race interview that he would appeal the result of the race.

Robby Gordon was docked 100 driver and owner points as a result of rule infractions during Speedweeks of 2008 at Daytona.

Robby Gordon's car was found with an unapproved front bumper cover.

Robby Gordon appealed the penalty issued by NASCAR in February, 2008.

Likewise, Robby Gordon was initially declared the winner of the 2009 Baja 500 on June 6,2009.

Robby Gordon was caught with excessive rear toe after the May 27,2009 Coca-Cola 600 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Robby Gordon was docked 50 points and his crew chief was fined $50,000.

In 2010, the car Robby Gordon owns and drives was found to have illegal parts during inspection on May 7,2010 before a race at Darlington Raceway.

Robby Gordon was docked 25 owner points and 25 driver points.

On March 4,2011, Robby Gordon was placed on indefinite probation in NASCAR due to an altercation he had with driver Kevin Conway in the garage area the night before.

At Bristol, Robby Gordon completed only 10 laps but pocketed $85,960.

Ironically, in 2012, Robby Gordon blasted past-champion Terry Labonte for "starting and parking" after 12 laps at the Daytona 500 qualifying race.

Labonte ran the full race, leading three laps and finishing 18th, while Robby Gordon retired after 25 laps and finished 41st.

Robby Gordon stated that if there was a problem with the system, he would plug it and still win stages.

Robby Gordon did so the following day, winning the stage by more than 15 minutes in front of the second-place finisher.

Robby Gordon was permitted to continue while the ruling was appealed to the French Automobile Sport Federation.

Robby Gordon's Hummer crashed and rolled over in the sand dunes of Peru in the penultimate stage of the rally, but was set back on its wheels by spectators and Robby Gordon continued on to a 10th-place finish of that stage.

Robby Gordon then won the final stage the following day, finishing the rally in 5th place overall.

Robby Gordon co-operates Speed UTV with Todd Romano with consultation from Robby Gordon's former engine builder Tony Cola; the brand's vehicles receive inspiration from SST and IndyCar.