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Well, Ambrose decided to go over and show the southerners how to race as well all know.

Nascar were running one of their very rare circuit (instead of oval) races this weekend.

In summary:

Ambrose was running first for at least half the race.

Robby Gordon got in front briefly, Ambrose hit his rear and spun him (haven't seen the footage of this so I can't comment, but no-one I've seen said this was deliberate)

Yellow flags come out, and pissed off RG overtakes the whole field under yellow to get back to second

Race restarts

Gordon deliberately punts Ambrose in the first corner, passes a black flag at every flag point, crosses the finish line first

Gordon isn't given the chequered flag (he's been disqualified), they give it to next car over the line, Harvick.

Gordon is still so pissed off that he goes and does the victory burnout at the end of the cool down lap next to Harvick.

ROFL

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=250694

I saw the footage on the news, from the footage Ambrose tap could have been classed as a racing incident, wasn't alot in it, but could have resulted in a drive through in Aus. but it was a left hander, I doubt robbie has seen many of them. But Robbie was just stupid, and why didn't Ambrose belt him, Ambrose the V8 driver would have, NASCAR has made him soft.

here are 2 youtube clips for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC0XBfly_qc (Part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQiH_ZZBC7M (part 2)

FARK! It's on 4:30am on thurday. damn they always do this. they put the nextel cup races on at a decent hour but the busch series gets screwed. no one gives a rats ass about the nextel cup! yes it's the top category, but they should know as aussies we only care about the one with an aussie in it!

Don't you be bringing your F1 sh!t into this thread Ivan. (Only because I have only watched the first 20 laps of the Hungarian GP & have to go home to see the rest.) But yeah, the FIA screwing a team over & it accidentally helping Ferrari, wow who would have thought. >_<

On the upside now everyone will know who Marcos Ambrose is, which if he had just won the race wouldn't have happened. I have no idea how he kept his cool after the race, however. Maybe he needs a cardboard cut out of Greg Murphy to get him fired up.

Disgusting conduct from Gordon. I'm sure Ambrose would have apologised at the end of the race, punting people off happens. Its a shame but thats racing. Talk about a spoiled little kid.

What the hell is Robby Gordon doing in Busch anyway??? Or am I thinking of Jeff?

Yeah he is a cup driver, about 10 of them do pretty much every busch race as well to prove how tough they are.

I love how deliberate gordons move was makes me laugh.

Check out some of the blog entries below the news story i posted - basic summary is "what the hell was the rookie aussie doing int he way of our hero" one bloke even said "ambrose might be ok on an oval but gordon was killing him on a road course" muahahahahahah

Disgusting conduct from Gordon. I'm sure Ambrose would have apologised at the end of the race, punting people off happens. Its a shame but thats racing. Talk about a spoiled little kid.

What the hell is Robby Gordon doing in Busch anyway??? Or am I thinking of Jeff?

were you thinking of Jeff Gordon in the number 24 Dupont car?

A quick read of the replies makes me never want to watch NASCAR again.

Seriously, how the hell can you justify a take-out manouver that is blatantly dangerous and possibly lethal?

At least Ambrose showed a bit of class in the after action.

If you look very carefully at the video you will see that Gordon actually passed Ambrose just after the yellow 's for the full course came out and then Ambrose tagged him which is why Ambrose was given the leaders position at the re-start. Going to be interesting to see the aftermath of this as Gordon is considered to be Nascar Royalty.

cheers

Muz

Dont confuse Robby gordon (brat) with Geoff. Geoff gordon may well be the best and fairest driver ever to pull on a nascar body shell and take it to the rednecks (he's a california kid).

I am no Ambrose fan, he was the spoilt brat over here but he sure got a raw deal in that little fracas. But anyone willing to lower their standards enough to drive ford shit deserves what they get. :laughing-smiley-014:

well gordon probably has about 30 cup cars and 20 busch cars so it's no great skin off his nose and I guess makes him look like less of a wanker.

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