Sonoma Last NASCAR Start for "Mama's" Boy? R. Gordon Starts Stadium Truck Series

Jun 23, 2:45 PM EDT

Sonoma could be 2012 NASCAR finale for R. Gordon

By JENNA FRYER

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) -- Robby Gordon believes Sunday's race at Sonoma will be his last one of the NASCAR season.

Gordon has no sponsorship lined up beyond this week. He's raced only twice this season - the Daytona 500 and at Phoenix. After failing to qualify at Las Vegas and California, Gordon has not attempted to make a NASCAR race since March.

"For 2012, this is probably my last event," Gordon said. "Right now, today, we don't have anything planned past Sunday."

Gordon will start 34th at Sonoma, where in 2003 he picked up one of his three career victories. He has no plans to race this summer at Watkins Glen, where he also won in 2003.

"I'd love to go to Watkins Glen, but I don't have a sponsor right now to go there," Gordon said. "So as we sit here right now, there's nothing on the table for anything until next season."

Gordon said he has money lined up for two races in both 2013 and 2014, but he has no intention of attempting to run a full Sprint Cup Series schedule again unless a funding package - perhaps from manufacturer Dodge - comes through.

Without that, a five- to 10-race schedule is probably his most realistic option. But even if that doesn't come through, he doesn't want to walk away completely away. He says NASCAR keeps him humble.

"I love NASCAR. But I come here and get ... kicked, which is good for me because I'm not a good loser," he said. "I've kind of been out of sight, out of mind."

Gordon is still racing, though, and working to grow his Speed Energy drink. He's starting a stadium truck series that he plans to have running in 2013, and Gordon is building all the trucks that will compete.

Gordon is trying to put together a 10-race schedule for the series, and says he already has contracts for events in Los Angeles and San Diego. Gordon wants to add stops in Texas, Long Beach and Las Vegas. He said he's hired USAC to officiate the races.

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It just seems like his heart was never really in NASCAR and the only reason he was doing it was because all the talent in America went to NASCAR once US open wheel racing self destructed in the mid 90s as we all know too well. More so in the past few years, I got the distinct impression that his NASCAR participation increasingly meant nothing more to him than a check with which to fund his other endeavors that he actually enjoyed like the dirt truck stuff.

Oh, I see. I always figured he was more interested in going the IndyCar route but guess not. Yea, it was not the smartest of moves to attempt to go at it alone in stock cars just as the sport was getting more and more to where you had to be part of a big organization to win. Like you said, the time had past for success stories like Kulwicki's. A real shame as he could've done big things had he stuck with RCR.

Yea absolutely, he's another one of those guys that we always talk about like Tony who would have been perfect in the 50s and 60s racing scene, mixing it up all over the map racing everything with a steering wheel.