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Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon

American racing driver Jeff Gordon won 93 NASCAR Cup Series races. He drove in the Cup Series full-time from 1993 to 2015. In 1992, Rick Hendrick watched Gordon race in a Busch Series event at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and Gordon joined Hendrick Motorsports two days later. During Gordon's career with Hendrick, he won his first race in 1994 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Coca-Cola 600, and later became a four-time Cup Series champion. He also won the Daytona 500 three times, in 1997, 1999, and 2005. As of 2017, he ranks third on the all-time Cup wins list with 93 career wins, the most in NASCAR's modern era (1972–present). Over the course of his racing career, Gordon won a total of 98 NASCAR races, including five races in the Busch Series. His final NASCAR victory came at Martinsville Speedway in 2015 in the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500. (Full list...)

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