Jeff Gordon News

Just two years ago, Jeff Gordon and his famed No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team were struggling, his crew chief was on the verge of leaving and doubts were beginning to creep into the mind of the four-time NASCAR champion. All that is behind him now as Gordon is just past halfway through one of his best seasons yet. And that fifth championship may be there for the taking. After 19 of 36 races this season, Gordon has ...

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) _ Jimmie Johnson withstood teammate Jeff Gordon's bumping and banging for much of the last 53 laps Sunday and held him off by a front bumper to win for the third time in six NASCAR Nextel Cup races this year. The teammates with Hendrick Motorsports provided a stirring duel at the end of the second Car of Tomorrow race, one that was mostly devoid of the destructive ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ This much Jeff Gordon knows for sure: His life will change dramatically when his daughter is born this summer. And maybe, just maybe, his NASCAR career won't seem quite so important. ``I think it's going to be one of two things: It's either going to make me work that much harder and appreciate racing that much more and enjoy it that much more,'' Gordon said. ``Or ...

Jeff Gordon took a break from the Nextel Cup championship to get married again. The four-time NASCAR champion wed Belgian model Ingrid Vandebosch on Tuesday in a private ceremony in Mexico, Jon Edwards, Gordon's publicist, confirmed Wednesday. The 35-year-old Gordon, the sport's most marketable driver, and Vandebosch have been together since 2004. They appeared in the movie ``Taxi,'' in which the 37-year-old model played a bank robber and Gordon made ...

The fall visit to Martinsville Speedway is one Jeff Gordon always looks forward to, especially when he's contending for NASCAR's big championship. He's the dominant NASCAR driver at the Martinsville Speedway, with seven career victories and an average finish of third in his last seven visits here. But while this weekend loomed especially large for the four-time champion a month ago when he was second in points and seemed ready ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. can do no wrong at Talladega _ at least as far as the fans are concerned. It seems most of the 150,000 or so NASCAR aficionados who show up twice a year for Nextel Cup races at the big Alabama track are rabid Junior fans. Each time their hero's red-clad No. 8 Chevrolet whizzes by, thousands rise to their feet like a mini-wave, throw their hands in the air, pump their fists and exult. ...

Jeff Gordon's championship hopes took a hit Sunday when the four-time NASCAR champion got caught up in an 11-car crash midway through the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports crew managed to get his battered No. 24 Chevrolet back on track to make up a few places and scavenge a few extra points later in the race, but Gordon still wound up 36th, his second straight finish near the bottom of the field. ``You know what, ...

Four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon once swapped cars with Juan Pablo Montoya for an exhibition run. The time the stock car star and the Formula One racer spent in each other's cars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was brief and told them little about how they would fare in a race. But, now, Montoya has left F1 behind and is taking aim at competing with Gordon and the rest of the Cup drivers for championships. He got ...

A year ago, Jeff Gordon was left in the dust by his teammates on a regular basis. They were all driving similar cars. So the problem must have been the guy in the driver's seat, right? ``My teammates were doing things, and they were working for them and they were running good,'' Gordon said. ``And we were trying the same things, and they weren't working. So all of a sudden, ...

Technically, Brian Vickers is Jeff Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports teammate. Well, for nine more races at least. Certainly, Gordon doesn't seem to mind that Vickers is leaving after this season, especially not after some hard driving led to some harsh words on Friday. ``He's my teammate, but he's not my teammate because he's moving on next year,'' Gordon said. ``I raced him harder than he wanted me to race him earlier ...