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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.
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 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]
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy jokes about Gordon's elocution in his stand-up routine "Jeff Gordon Enunciates", featured on the album Big Funny (2000). [ 318 ] [ 319 ] Hip hop artist Nelly raps "I drive fastly, call me Jeff Gord-on, in the black SS with the naviga-tion" in the song " E.I. ", featured on the album Country Grammar (2000).
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JG Motorsports was a NASCAR Busch Series race team co-owned by Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick, which attempted 20 races in the year 2000. The team evolved from Gordon–Evernham Motorsports , which ran six races in the Busch Series in 1999.
There was a total of seven speeding violations on pit road during these pit stops, most notably Johnson. Once the green flag pit stops cycled through on lap 64, Jeff Gordon had the lead. Debris on the racetrack brought out the third caution on lap 86, with Gordon still out in front.