Full Throttle

As you will recall part of Robby Gordon’s specially aged Whine during the L’Affaire Nosepiece was RGM had come under threat of going insolvent partially due to the 4.5 million dollars he lost as a result of the Dakar Rally being canceled.

Well his chickens, dressed as lawyers, have come home to roost.

Vanguard Integrity Professionals sponsored Team Gordon in the Dakar Rally and is asking for US$1.15 million back from the driver.

“We want the world to know that Vanguard is no longer associated with Team Gordon,” the company said in a statement released to The Associated Press.

Vanguard’s contract for the Dakar event was to run through the 2010 race, was being the operative word.

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in California has taken care of that and the company has gone so far as to demand Gordon remove its logos from his uniforms and equipment as part of the dispute.

This may shock some of Robby’s sycophants but canceling of Dakar isn’t the front burner issue, as always it’s Robby’s mouth at the center of it.

Gordon has this to say at the time:

“Let’s put it in perspective. Eleven people got killed over there,” Gordon said in January. “I’m pretty sure in L.A., we kill 11 a night on the streets of L.A. … It was a couple of kids in the back of a pickup truck with a couple of AK-47s shot a couple of people.

“I’m sorry to say that. But the reality of it is it’s not like it’s this big setup bombing.”

I don’t recall reading those quotes then, and frankly I’ll refrain from commenting now. I’ll let a Vanguard spokesman summarize my feelings:

“It is not positive to be associated with someone who said al-Qaeda attacks are no worse than an average night in America — especially for a security software company. It’s simply not a true or accurate statement.”

Exactly! Sometimes Robby is dumber than a box of rusty wrenches.

UPDATE: I’ve seen Robby do and say many dumb things, but I have to ask, has anyone aside from Jay Busby seen Robby “put a clown on a unicycle into the wall?”