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Jeff Gordon announced that 2015 will be the last year for him to run in NASCAR full time. He hasn't ruled out individual events after 2015 but has not announced any plans. He remains an equity owner in Hendricks Motorsports and will remain active in NASCAR as an equity owner and supporting his foundation. The fact that Chase Elliott is expected to move into the Hendricks Motorsports Cup stable in 2016 probably had a to do with the announcement.

When Jeff Gordon and Pepsi teamed up in 2013 to stage an undercover “test drive” with a supposedly terrified car dealer, Jalopnik’s Travis Okulski called out the professional racer for faking the stunt, characterizing it as “duplicitous.” So Gordon decided to get back at the writer by staging another stunt. And it’s hilarious. “With a little help from Okulski’s bosses, they got Okulski into a cab in North Carolina, and, well … magic happens,”Yahoo Sports explains.

3/12/2013 For all you NASCAR fans!...a disguised Jeff Gordon takes an unsuspecting car salesman on the test drive of his life. Jeff Gordon test drive

In one of the more surreal scenes in recent NASCAR memory, Jeff Gordon and Clint Bowyer set off a sequence of events during the Sunday Phoenix race that could have repercussions not just for next week, but for next season and the Sprint Cup championship.

: #24-Jeff Gordon, and five-time X-Games gold medalist and rally driver, Travis Pastrana, will represent Team USA in the 18th Race of Champions - Nations Cup, Dec. 3 at the 70,000 seat Stade de France in Paris. Three years ago, Team USA - Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Colin Edwards - won the event. Approximately 10 countries with drivers from many racing disciplines, including NASCAR, Formula One and World Rally Championship, will take part in the prestigious international competition.(GM Racing PR

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TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) -- There was a time when Jeff Gordon didn't like restrictor-plate racing. No more. Gordon proved again Sunday he is NASCAR's new king of racing at plate tracks, fighting off challenger after challenger on the way to winning the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway in overtime. ``This is the type of racing where experience is really key,'' Gordon said. ``The more that I get used to watching my mirror, using the air and having the kind of car I had today, I feel like I get better at restrictor-plate racing.'' That's bad news for the rest of...

eff Gordon never has approached the popularity of the late Dale Earnhardt -- perhaps NASCAR's biggest star ever. But Gordon is fast approaching one of Earnhardt's greatest accomplishments. A victory last Sunday at Martinsville Speedway was Gordon's second of the year and the 71st of his career, moving him within five of matching Earnhardt's 76 wins -- fifth on NASCAR's victory list.

Drivers include, Geoff Bodine, Kurt Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Eliott Sadler, Mark Martin, Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Jimmie Johnson and Jeremy Mayfield.NASCAR President Mike Helton has endorsed the president.Successful owners Jack Roush, Richard Childress, Robert Yates, Joe Gibbs, and Teresa Earnhardt have endorsed the president.NASCAR heroes Rusty Wallace, Michael Waltrip, Kyle Petty, Bobby and Terry Labonte have endorsed the president.

In just one quick Google search, I found a $2000 political contribution made by Jeff Gordon to: TRIPLETT, KEVIN R. (R) House (VA 09) TRIPLETT FOR THE NINTHThose of you posting today about which NASCAR drivers endorsed the president — and using that opportunity to bash Gordon as "gay" — are embarrassing. You're exactly the kind of people the Kerry-Edwards "Mary Cheney" stunt was meant to reach.

<p>The new Jeff Gordon lives part time in a Manhattan apartment and takes his girlfriend to out-of-the-way nightspots. He vacations in the Hamptons. He jokes on TV about being cleaned out by divorce lawyers and freely admits that personal turmoil affected his driving last year. He's more willing to speak his mind. And he no longer goes out of his way to thank God in victory lane.</p>

Nextel to sponsor NASCAR's top division By Lee Montgomery, Turner Sports Interactive June 19, 2003 3:18 PM EDT (1918 GMT) NEW YORK -- Say goodbye to the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. And say hello to the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. The world of stock-car racing changed quickly and dramatically Thursday morning with the announcement that Nextel Communications Inc. of Reston, Va. will back NASCAR's top series for 10 years, starting in 2004. The deal was announced amid smoke and laser lights in the NASDAQ building in Times Square. And it took less than an hour for NASCAR to proclaim that...

NASCAR Heeds Call of a New SponsorNextel Replaces Winston in No. 1 Position By Liz ClarkeWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, June 18, 2003; Page D01 For 33 years, NASCAR and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company have been so closely linked that race fans exhale them in a single breath: NASCAR's Winston Cup series.That long association is coming to an end as Reston-based Nextel Communications Inc. assumes sponsorship of NASCAR's elite division, which since 1971 has been known as the Winston Cup.NASCAR officials yesterday confirmed that company chairman and CEO Bill France Jr. will be in New York Thursday for a "major news...

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- It appears Jeff Gordon loves Martinsville in the springtime. For the third time in his career, Gordon grabbed the Bud Pole at Martinsville Speedway, turning a lap of 94.307 mph Friday to earn the top starting spot for Sunday's Virginia 500. Gordon, whose three poles at Martinsville have all come in the spring race, knocked Dale Earnhardt Jr. off the pole. Earnhardt's best lap was 93.863. The rest of the top five included Ryan Newman, Ken Schrader and Rusty Wallace.

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- A few days of not shaving got Jeff Gordon a whole lot of attention. The four-time Winston Cup champion showed up at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Friday sporting a dark black goatee, a radical change to the clean-cut image he's presented over most of his career. The facial hair drew a flurry of attention -- cameras were constantly following him around -- and he was quizzed about it every time he stopped during his preparation for The Winston, NASCAR's all-star race. ``All I wanted to do was have a little fun,'' said Gordon, convinced by his...

NASCAR's Gordon counter-sues for divorce By Kathryn Quigley, The Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH - The divorce case of NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon and his wife, Brooke, hit a sharp curve this week when he counter-sued for divorce, claiming he should be exempt from splitting the couple's estate because he risked his life to acquire it. Gordon, a four-time Winston Cup champion, says he deserves a bigger share of the couple's businesses, homes, cars and boats. "Due to the Husband's extraordinary contributions to the acquisition of the funds as a result of his hazardous, life-threatening occupation, the Husband claims...