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Cup champ says birth of daughter best day of his life
By David Caraviello, NASCAR.COM
June 22, 2007
09:04 PM EDT
SONOMA, Calif. — Jeff Gordon didn’t want to leave.
NASCAR’s newest father sat in a New York hospital room, cradling his newborn daughter in his arms. It wasn’t easy to put her down and leave for Infineon Raceway, site of this weekend’s Nextel Cup event.
“I was holding her and she was sleeping in my arms right before I left the hospital,” he said Friday. “I did not want to leave. That’s why I’m excited about being here, because I want to get out there and get this race over as fast as I can. I want to get it done faster than anyone else and get back to my little girl and Ingrid.”
Gordon and his wife, Belgian model Ingrid Vandebosch, celebrated the birth of daughter Ella Sofia on Wednesday. The baby was breach — turned backward in the mother’s womb — so Vandebosch underwent a Caesarean section. That morning on the way to the hospital, her water broke.
“It is absolutely incredible,” Gordon said. “I expected it to change my life, but I never had any clue of how it was going to, but it has. It’s just things are different now, in a great way, though. It was just probably the best day of my life.”
“Every time I open my phone, it puts a smile on my face,” he said. “With everything that’s happening here today, as devastating as it is for me, there’s nothing that’s going to bring me down today. More important things in life are at the top of my list.”
Like diapers, which Gordon is already willingly changing on a daughter that shows signs of having her daddy’s dark hair. One of the first things he did after waking up Friday morning was call Ingrid and Ella. Hendrick Motorsports teammate Casey Mears could sense Gordon’s giddiness on the helicopter ride to the racetrack.
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