Apparently, Robby Gordon does feel some remorse for taking out Australian driver Marcos Ambrose at Montreal last weekend.
By now, just about every race fan in America, Canada, and Australia saw the comical meltdown of Robby Gordon at Montreal on Saturday. It is simple, Robby Gordon completely lost it. His celebratory yet defiant burnouts were classic. However, NASCAR Busch Series rookie driver Marcos Ambrose took the biggest hit in Robby Gordon's latest outburst.
Robby Gordon has often been known to lose his cool. In 2004, Gordon purposely spun out Greg Biffle, which also took out Chase for the Championship contenders Tony Stewart and Jeremy Mayfield. Just a year later, at the same New Hampshire track, Gordon tossed his helmet in the direction of Michael Waltrip, and proceeded to refer to Waltrip as a piece of feces on national television. So you just knew that it was a matter of time before the ticking timebomb went off again.
Gordon had reason to be upset, he should have restarted in the lead, however, NASCAR has a very confusing rulebook. So everyone knew that Gordon was not going to take NASCAR's ruling lightly.
Gordon intentionally spun Ambrose, preventing the driver from winning his first ever NASCAR race. I must say that Ambrose took it much better than I would have. Basically, he took it like a man.
Here is the twist. Robby Gordon has offered Marcos Ambrose an olive branch. He has invited Ambrose to drive a second Robby Gordon Motorsports car for the race at Watkins Glen this weekend.
"Marcos did a helluva job," Gordon said. "He led a lot of laps on Saturday. It will be great to have him as my teammate...The first reason is that it's unfortunate that Marcos got put in a position in Montreal where I was thinking, 'OK, if I'm not going to win, he's not going to win.' "
Ambrose has apparently accepted the peace offering. "A bit of old outback Australian culture involved playing a game of Australian football, having a fight and then heading to the pub together for a beer - I guess this is a bit like that," he said.
So Robby Gordon does has the ability to show remorse.
Ambrose is expected to drive the #77 Ford.
