| |  | | | | AGE: 37 | HOMETOWN: Pittsboro, IN | YEARS RACING NEXTEL CUP: 16 | PRIMARY SPONSOR: DuPont | MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet | CAR OWNER: Rick Hendrick | TEAM: Hendrick Motorsports | RACES: 72 | WINS: 6 | T5: 33 | T10: 48 | POLE: 14 | EARNINGS: $12,765,953 | | | > Biography | | | | | | Driver Performance | 1 | | Daytona International Speedway | 8 | 39 | 186 | Susp. | $319,599 | 51/5 | 2 | | California Speedway | 2 | 3 | 250 | Running | $214,186 | 170/5 | 3 | | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | 4 | 35 | 262 | Accident | $130,286 | 63/5 | | | November 16, 2008 | After 14 straight seasons of winning at least two races per year, four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon ended the 2008 campaign without a victory.
Nevertheless, Gordon was in a positive frame of mind... | | | November 11, 2008 | HOMESTEAD, FL -- This weekend, Jeff Gordon will head south for the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway – the season finale for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. While the racing for NASCAR’s premier... | | | November 09, 2008 | Jeff Gordon started strong in Sunday's race, but midway through the event, the engine in his No. 24 Chevrolet began to lose power. Finally, the motor blew, and Gordon retired from the race in 41st... | | | November 04, 2008 | AVONDALE, AZ -- Following four consecutive top-10 finishes, Jeff Gordon has moved up to fifth in the standingsthe highest ranking in 2008 for the four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion.
With only... | | | October 31, 2008 | If Jeff Gordon needed a change of pace to break the spell of his last disastrous tango with Texas Motor Speedway, he found it Friday afternoon.
Gordon covered the 1.5-mile distance in 28.652... | | | October 30, 2008 | Stops in Nashville and Kentucky may prove to be the best route for Team DuPont to find Victory Lane at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. In April, Jeff Gordon battled the handling on his No. 24... | | | September 19, 2008 | Jeff Gordon's 2008 Sprint Cup season has been spent in pursuit of positives. So far, at least, that has been largely fruitless.
But Gordon did harvest something satisfying Friday at Dover... | | | September 13, 2008 | Joey Logano's first NASCAR Sprint Cup start on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is the most anticipated debut since Jeff Gordon arrived in the top stock car series.
The difference is that... | | | July 06, 2008 | Jeff Gordon was in position for his 14th victory at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night.
Then he made two costly mistakes.
First, Gordon moved up the track and allowed eventual... | | | July 01, 2008 | NASCAR is a performance-driven business in which the rules are very simple: If you don’t perform, you’re going to be out of a job. Casey Mears, driver of the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 car,... | | | May 02, 2008 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. admits his 71-race losing streak played a role in his decision not to help teammate Jeff Gordon in the final stages of last weekend's Sprint Cup race at Talladega... | | | April 25, 2008 | Buy a Raffle Ticket – Help a Child – Drive Home in Jeff Gordon’s Corvette!
It could be that easy! Be among the select few who have a chance to drive home in Jeff’s personal 2007 Z06 Corvette. ... | | | March 05, 2008 | CHARLOTTE, NC -- Jimmie Johnson had never run so poorly, not in any race in his six previous seasons and certainly not at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he'd won three-straight races.
Johnson's... | | | February 10, 2008 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- At Daytona testing last month, four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon promised that February's Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway wouldn't lack for... | | | December 19, 2007 | Van from Dallas: What do you think about the fact that under the system Dale Earnhardt won his seven championships, Jeff Gordon would have six because he would have won in 2004 and 2007. But... | | | December 12, 2007 | In theory, it would be hard to imagine a better Chase than the one Jeff Gordon had this year.
The only problem was that Jimmie Johnson had a better one.
Gordon won twice and posted an average... | | | November 27, 2007 | HOMESTEAD, FL -- As Jimmie Johnson made his celebratory trip around the track, crew chief Chad Knaus fumbled with papers that had fallen from his notebook, too distracted to celebrate.
"I wanted... | | | November 11, 2007 | Jimmie Johnson continued his amazing white-hot streak, winning his fourth consecutive NASCAR Nextel Cup race and all but sealing his second straight championship with a late charge to capture the... | | | October 07, 2007 | Commemorating the 15th anniversary of what many call the single greatest race in NASCAR history, Jeff Gordon will serve as the Grand Marshal for the Oct. 28 Pep Boys Auto 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race... | | | September 18, 2007 | A Sprint Nextel commercial that debuts this month will feature Jeff Gordon as a father and a husband, marking the first time since his wife gave birth that an ad refers to the NASCAR driver’s new... | | | |
