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He also won the 4 Crown Nationals midget car race that season. [23] ... Jeff Gordon Boulevard – In 1999, Pittsboro, Indiana renamed County Road 275 East, ...
Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American professional auto racing driver who competed in the NASCAR Cup Series over a 25-year career. He was born in Vallejo, California to Carol Houston and Billy Gordon; the couple separated a few months later. Gordon's mother then married John Bickford, a car builder and parts supplier.
Gordon clinched the Winston Million by winning the Southern 500, holding off a hard-charging Jeff Burton on the final lap. The two cars touched coming around Turn 4 to take the white flag side-by-side, with Gordon holding on to win his third of four consecutive Southern 500 wins, a record in NASCAR majors.
Jeff Gordon is an American racing driver who drove in the NASCAR Cup Series full-time from 1993 to 2015, winning 93 Cup Series races and four Cup championships. Gordon made his stock car debut in the NASCAR Busch Series on October 20, 1990, at North Carolina Motor Speedway for Hugh Connerty, crashing out on lap 23 and ending up with a 39th-place finish. [1]
The "triple crown" is earned in USAC racing when a driver claims all three national championships (silver crown, sprint car, and midget car). ... 4 Jeff Gordon ...
Jeff Gordon's No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet at Las Vegas in 2012, the No. 24's 20th and final season of DuPont sponsorship At the start of the 2011 season, a HMS organizational shuffle saw Gordon, the No. 24 and his sponsors move to the 5/88 shop, with Mark Martin's former crew chief Alan Gustafson becoming crew chief of the No. 24 team.
Jeff Gordon won his fifth Brickyard 400 and the 90th race of his career. The race was scheduled to start at 1:19 p.m. Eastern time, [24] but started a few minutes later with Kevin Harvick leading the field to the green flag, but he ceded the lead to Jeff Gordon on lap two. Due to overnight downpours, a competition caution came out on lap 21.
Gordon began driving the No. 24 car full-time in the 1993 Winston Cup season, with Evernham serving as his first crew chief. Gordon started his rookie season by winning one of the Gatorade Twin 125's, [8] becoming the youngest driver to win a Daytona qualifying race. [9] He followed this with a fifth-place finish in his first Daytona 500. [5]