I've watched NASCAR for as long as I can remember. I picked Jeff Gordon as my favorite driver because I liked the car colors. One Valentines day my mom was buying a Dale Earnhardt jacket for my dad so I wanted her to get a Jeff Gordon one as well. She did!
The next month we met several of our racing friends at Martinsville Speedway to see my brother and my first live NASCAR Sprint Cup Race (March 2009). Mom wore the Jeff Gordon jacket because it was too big on me!
I watched my first Daytona 500 when I was six months old. By the time I was 18 months old I was eating nachos with my dad. I can only remember rooting for Jeff Gordon throughout my life. He is a part of my earliest memories.
I was upset to find out about Jeff Gordon's decision to stop racing full time in the Sprint Cup series at the end of 2015. He was and still is my favorite driver and I'm upset that I'll have to root for someone else starting in 2016.
Gordon has several sponsors such as Panasonic, Drive to end Hunger, DuPont, Niccorette, 3M, Imron Elite, Zyntac, Farm Ville, Pepsi, AARP, National Guard, and Looney Tunes. At one time he was sponsored by a Star Wars movie through Pepsi which I had a shirt of that I wore out! Star Wars and Jeff Gordon - two of my favorite things!
Gordon drives the No. 24 Chevy Impala. Before he came to NASCAR Gordon had a long history of racing everything from quarter midgets to sprint cars. He wanted to find a ride in IndyCar but that never worked out.
Gordon races for Rick Hendrick along with Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne, and Jimmie Johnson. Gordon started in the Busch series, which is now the Xfinity series, and worked his way up to Sprint Cup series.
Gordon earned his last of four Sprint Cup championships in 2001, the year before I was born. But even though he has never won a championship in my lifetime, he is still a winner and continues to add to his race winning totals nearly every year I have watched him. He is currently third on the all-time wins list of NASCAR drivers behind Richard Petty and David Pearson. He has 92 wins and could add to that total this year!
Gordon was in the Chevy Camaro Commercial were he is disguised and fooled a car dealer. This is hilarious and one of my favorite commercials ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mHPo2yDG8
Gordon was also featured in one of my favorite Disney movies, Cars 2 where he plays Jeff Gorvette, a Chevy Corvette GT car.
I always try to watch the last 10 laps in all Sprint Cup races and especially if Gordon leads!
After 2015 I will root for Chase Elliot who will be taking over in the No. 24 and Tony Stewart in the No. 14 because he was always my second favorite after Gordon.
I hope Jeff Gordon races his heart out this year and we have many victories to celebrate. Either way, I'll remain his fan.
