Jeff Gordon: Full Biography
Jeff Gordon is an American former NASCAR driver and the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. He won 93 Cup Series races, third on the all-time list, along with four championships, three Daytona 500s and a record five Brickyard 400s. He entered the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2019.
The Debut He came out of quarter midgets and USAC, winning the national midget title in 1990 and the Silver Crown in 1991. His first Cup start came at Atlanta in November 1992, in the same race that closed Richard Petty’s thirty-five-year career. He was rookie of the year in 1993, won the Coca-Cola 600 and the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994, and took the championship in 1995 at twenty-four — the youngest champion of the modern era.
The Peak Ten wins in 1996 were not enough, and he finished second. Ten more in 1997 brought a second title and the Daytona 500. Then 1998: thirteen victories in thirty-three starts, still the modern-era record for a season, and a third championship. A fourth followed in 2001.
The Streak He drove the No. 24 for Hendrick Motorsports for his entire career and started 797 consecutive races, a NASCAR record. His last full season was 2015, in which he won at Martinsville and finished third; he came back in 2016 to substitute for Dale Earnhardt Jr. He now runs the team he raced for, and its cars have won the championship twice under him.
