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Three-time race winner Jeff Gordon leads the field to the start of the 2015 Daytona 500. The Daytona 500 is an annual American stock car race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and held every February at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Richard Petty has the most Daytona 500 wins with seven and Cale Yarborough is second with four. ... 2005: Jeff Gordon. 2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2003: Michael Waltrip. 2002: Ward Burton.
The last three Daytona 500 winners have come from two midpack race teams and a rookie. ... Ricky Stenhouse Jr. holds on for first 500 win. ... Jeff Gordon (3) 2004: Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2003 ...
Earnhardt won 76 races in the Winston Cup Series from 1979 to 2000. Of those, 67 wins came with Richard Childress Racing in the No. 3, with sponsorship from Wrangler Jeans and GM Goodwrench. Earnhardt won his first six races in 1979 and 1980 driving for Rod Osterlund, winning Rookie of the Year honors in 1979 and his first of seven ...
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]
Gordon's first win of 2007 was at Phoenix, tying Darrell Waltrip's modern-day record of 59 poles, [77] followed by tying Dale Earnhardt for sixth all-time in overall number of Cup wins. [78] At Talladega , he recorded his 77th career Nextel Cup victory, to the dismay of the fans, who began throwing beer cans at Gordon's car. [ 79 ]
The 2005 Daytona 500, the 47th running of the event, was held on February 20, 2005, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the first race of the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup season. Dale Jarrett won the pole and Jeff Gordon won the race, making this his third Daytona 500 win.
From 1995 to 1998, Gordon won 40 races, the 1997 Daytona 500 and three Winston Cup titles. Evernham left the No. 24 team with seven races remaining in the 1999 season, the same year Gordon won his ...