Jeffery Michael Gordon

(born August 4, 1971) is a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver. He was born in Vallejo, California and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion, Rookie of the Year in 1993, three-time Daytona 500 winner, and the current driver of the #24 Dupont Chevrolet Impala. His primary sponsor is DuPont, though Pepsi and Nicorette both supplement the team as secondary sponsors. Other sponsors include GMAC, Quaker State, Haas Automation, Bosch Spark Plugs, and Georgia-Pacific/Sparkle. Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick are the co-owners of the Jimmie Johnson #48 Lowe's team, Johnson won both the 2006 and 2007 NEXTEL Cup series championship. Gordon also has an owns part of his own #24 team."In 1993, Gordon raced his first full season in Winston Cup for Hendrick Motorsports, in which he won a Daytona 500 qualifying race, the Rookie of the Year award, and finished 14th in points. Ray Evernham was placed as Jeff Gordon's first crew chief. Gordon's success in the sport reshaped the paradigm and eventually gave younger drivers an opportunity to compete in NASCAR. However, during the 1993 season, many doubted Gordon's ability to compete at such a level at such a young age because of his tendency to push the cars too hard and crash.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. takes a back seat to Jeff Gordon at Sonoma (June 23, 2008)
Dale Earnhardt Jr., who ended a 76-race winless streak last week at Michigan International Speedway, will seek his second consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory today at the Toyota/Save Mart 350. But oddsmakers do not give Earnhardt much of a chance on the road course at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. At betEd.com, Earnhardt is listed with 120-1 odds, numbers that put him deep in the pack of 43-car field. Four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, who has won five times on the difficult course at Infineon, is listed as the favorite at 3.75-1. Gordon, who had already gained four of his six 2007 victories by read more...

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Jeff Gordon expects to rebound at Sonoma (June 19th 2008)
Jeff Gordon expects to be able to bounce back from a few difficult weeks to contend for victory once again on Sunday at the first road course race of the season at Infineon Raceway. The four-time Sprint Cup champion has the best record among active drivers at the track, with five wins, three of them from pole position. Gordon says that even after struggling to be a contender for victory recently, he believes the Sonoma track will provide him his first chance of winning a race this season, although he doesn’t expect that to translate in a sudden upturn in his form at read more...

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Jeff Gordon is a Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion. Three-time Daytona 500 winner. Four-time Brickyard 400 winner. And the list goes on. Jeff Gordon has combined determination, hard work and decades of experience to achieve an unparalleled roster of victories. His fans expect only the best from him, and they are rewarded at every turn with Gordon's racing agility that defines the skill of the sport.

Jeff was five when he began running laps at a makeshift racetrack that he and his stepfather, John Bickford, converted from a fairground in his hometown of Vallejo, California. Inspired at an early age by John to be the best he could be in everything he did, Jeff embraced racing with a natural talent and true humility.

The young man from California jumped behind the wheel of a quarter midget and his competitive spirit quickly ignited. "He slipped around the track for days getting used to the car and how to drive it," John says. Jeff didn’t do so well in his first year of competition, but he knew he could do it. At just six years of age, Jeff won 35 main events and set five track records. And so it began…