Jeff Gordon

When Jeff was 12, he made extra cash at races selling Jeff Gordon t-shirts. These are among the racing world’s most highly prized collectibles today.


Jeff attended his first Indy 500 in 1983. Tom Sneva won the race.


Jeff restored and rebuilt a 1933 Ford sedan when he was a teenager. He used a motor he had hand-built for the pickup he drove in high school.


At 19, Jeff was the youngest national champion in the history of Midget competition.
Jeff’s first Winston Cup race, in 1992, was Richard Petty’s last.


At 21, Jeff was history’s youngest winner of the 125-mile Daytona qualifying race.
Jeff’s $613,000 winner’s check at the 1994 Brickyard 400 was the largest in NASCAR history at the time.


Jeff’s Winston Million bonus in 1997 was the first since Bill Elliott won the mega-bonus in 1985.


Dale Earnhardt teased Jeff publicly when he cried after his 1993 Daytona qualifying win. In 1998, Earnhardt shed a tear after finally winning the Daytona 500. Yes, he admitted, he had “pulled a Gordon.”
Jeff recorded 17 consecutive Top 5 finishes in 1998, the longest streak of the Winston Cup era.


Jeff says his Lap 198 pass of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. at Daytona in 2005—without benefit of a draft—was the finest of his career.


It took more than 60 years for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to have its first four-time winner at the Indy 500, AJ Foyt. Jeff won his fourth race there in his 11th try.


Jeff and teammate Jimmie Johnson first became friends when Jeff admired his aggressive driving at Darlington in 1998. In 2004, they traveled together with their girlfriends to Spain, New York and the Bahamas.


Jeff’s favorite TV show is Friends. His favorite video game is Tiger Woods golf.
Jeff established his own wine label in 2005.


Jeff hosted Saturday Night Live in early 2003. In 2004, he filled in for Regis Philbin one morning.


Off the racetrack, Jeff has never had an accident—when moving forward. He admits to having backed into a few things.


Jeff, who stands 5-7, says the athlete he’d most like to swap places with is 7-1 Shaquille O’Neal.


If racing hadn’t worked out for Jeff, he says he would have tried to get into the space program.


Jeff appeared on Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown. He won in his preliminary game, beating Angie Dickinson, Kathy Griffin, Penn Jillette and Ron Livingston. In the championship round, he was matched against fellow winners David Cross, Steve Harris, Seth Meyers and Dave Navarro. Jeff was the first to exit.


Since 1993, Jeff Gordon has had a average finish of 17th or better every year, his best being in 1998 with a average finish of 5.7!! His secound best average for the year was from last year, at 7.3!!!
WHAT A YEAR!!


Jeff has 7 wins at Martinsville and 7 at Darlington


Jeff has 6 wins each at the SUPERSPEEDWAYS of Daytona and Talladega,
and 5 each at Bristol and Infenion!!



JEFF GORDON HAD MADE $87,739,772 IN HIS 509 races, before this year started!!



HE HAS 81 WINS, 234 TOP 5’S, 317 TOP 10’S, 63 POLE STARTS, AND A AVERAGE FINISH OF 12.2!!!
Before this year started.



2005 and 1993 are the only years since Jeff came to Cup racing that he did not finish top 10, finshed 14th in points his first full year (1993), Then finished 11th in 2005!!
FOUR championships, and so many SHOULD have beens!!



This info was taken from Nascar.com and Jayski!!


Jeff Gordon, THANK YOU FOR THE YEARS of RACING you have givin us!!