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NASCAR Statement On Parking Of Driver Robby Gordon

Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007

Pocono Raceway

As a result of his actions on the race track at Saturday?s NASCAR Busch Series race at Montreal, NASCAR has parked driver Robby Gordon for today?s Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway. Referencing Section 12-2 of the 2007 NASCAR rule book ? ?if the act or omission of a member is determined by a NASCAR official to constitute a threat to the orderly conduct of the event, NASCAR may take emergency action against that member ?? That action includes parking a driver for an event. Parking is final, non-appealable and non-reviewable.

Towards the end of Saturday?s race at Montreal, Robby Gordon demonstrated blatant disrespect and disregard for NASCAR directives ? on multiple occasions. His actions were certainly disruptive to the orderly conduct of the event.

NASCAR will continue to review this situation and address any further actions at the beginning of this week.

P.J. Jones will be driving the #7 car today ? he practiced in it here on Saturday. Since he did not qualify the car, he will start the race at the end of the line

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