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Jeff Gordon is a threat to win anywhere at anytime - short and intermediate tracks, road courses or superspeedways. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images for NASCAR) ยป More Photos
By his own admission, Jeff Gordon isn’t having much fun this season, certainly not compared with years past.
Gordon, of course, won championships in what is now known as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 1995, ’97, ’98 and 2001, and would have had two more had NASCAR not modernized 55 years of tradition by adopting the Chase for the Sprint Cup in 2004.
Last year, Gordon won six races and finished second in points to his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson. And lest one forget, he’s won more than $96 million in his NASCAR career, which makes him the all-time top money winner in the sport.
This year’s been anything but fun, though. Gordon is winless through the first 16 Sprint Cup races of the year and he had earmarked Infineon Raceway as a place he’d get his season turned around. After all, Gordon is the career leader with five victories on the 12-turn, 1.99-mile road course, not far from his hometown of Vallejo, Calif.
Yet the breakthrough win didn’t come. Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon was another maddening exercise for Gordon, a frustrating and inexplicable
And yet, somehow, someway, when the dust had settled over Northern California, Gordon finished third in a car he hated and in the process earned his seventh top-five finish, second behind only points leader Kyle Busch. In other words, Gordon’s day was as frustrating as it could be, but ultimately productive. Forty other drivers finished behind him, after all, but it wasn’t enough.
“I'm disappointed the way we started the race,” said Gordon. “I really thought yesterday we were going to be good on the long runs and instead, we were not. You know, I thought of all places that this would be the last one that we would really need to work that much on, but I don't know, after today. ... We just were not even close for out here.”
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