Topic: Jeff Gordon

The ongoing struggles of Dale Earnhardt Jr. were not the sole reason for the sweeping changes made at Hendrick Motorsports.. A day after Rick Hendrick shuffled the driver and crew chief lineup for three of his race teams, the team owner said ...
Hendrick Motorsports made sweeping changes to its organization Tuesday, shuffling the lineup for every team except five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson.. A crew chief change for slumping Dale Earnhardt Jr. was not unexpected, but nobody predicted the stunning swap team owner Rick ...
Jeff Gordon would have won the 2004 Cup that Kurt Busch won. Tony Stewart would have been the champion under either format in 2005, and Jimmie Johnson would have been the champion under either format in 2006 and 2009. But Gordon would ...
After a bittersweet season that saw Jimmie Johnson win his fifth consecutive NASCAR championship but three teammates go winless, Hendrick Motorsports has shuffled its crew chief lineup for the 2011 Sprint Cup season.. Mark Martin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jeff Gordon were ...

US Auto Racing

The Indianapolis 500-mi classic, now a part of Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George's Indy Racing League (IRL) schedule, faced its first competition ever. Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, and Toyota built engines for CART, and Oldsmobile and Nissan did the same for the ...

Chase heats up in Phoenix

If Jimmie Johnson is looking to rebound in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, Phoenix International Raceway is the perfect place for him to do so. Johnson finished ninth last Sunday at Texas and fell 33 points behind new leader Denny ...
Denny Hamlin took over the points lead from Jimmie Johnson in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after winning Sunday's AAA Texas 500 in a wild day of racing at Texas Motor Speedway.. Hamlin grabbed the lead from Mark Martin with ...
Four-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson had a major shakeup to his race team Monday when Hendrick Motorsports gave him teammate Jeff Gordon's pit crew for the final two races of the season.. Gordon's crew was flawless the rest of the day ...
Chad Knaus defended the decision to dump Jimmie Johnson's crew with two races remaining, a move he said was done for the overall good of Hendrick Motorsports.. "I don't think people understand it's not an easy decision," the crew chief said Tuesday, ...
Born in Valleja, California, on August 4th, 1971 Jeff Gordon wasn?t even five years old when he got into a car and started racing. His parents were criticized for letting such a young child drive a car, but neither Jeff nor his ...
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