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Gordon continues to drive National Guard’s message
At Texas, No. 24 car will spotlight GED Plus program

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/business/03/31/jgordon.national.guard.ged/index.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon has been racing in NASCAR for almost 20 years, but there is one thing that still sends chills up his spine: prerace festivities. There’s just something about the first note of the national anthem that gets Gordon’s adrenaline pumping.

“There’s hundreds of thousands of people standing there getting ready to watch the race with their hands over their hearts,” Gordon said. “They’re looking at the American flag and then the flyover — I don’t think it gets any more patriotic than that.”

Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports team have a chance to share their patriotism publicly this season by featuring National Guard community-related initiatives on the hood of the No. 24 Chevrolet in eight Sprint Cup Series events.

The National Guard’s mission is to use the No. 24 car as a platform to help create awareness on some of the special programs it has to offer. These programs provide such incentives like job opportunities, valuable career training, college tuition, salary and benefits and the guidance needed to excel in life.

“The more I get to learn about the National Guard and what they have to offer, the more impressed I am with what they are doing.” Jeff Gordon