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Martinsville In-Car Audio

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 Jeff Gordon broke a long drought at Martinsville Speedway Sunday afternoon, winning the Goody’s 500 for his eighth Martinsville victory, but his first since winning this race in the fall of 2005. It was his first win of the season and the 88th of his NASCAR Cup series career. “This is a special win for many reasons,” Gordon said. “It’s Martinsville. That grandfather clock (winner’s trophy) is special. It’s a historical track. It’s been good to me. There’s a lot of meaning to winning at this track.” Gordon moved up to 3rd in the NASCAR standings and trails Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson by 27 points with 3 races remaining in the season.

source: Jeff Gordon Online

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Talladega In-Car Audio

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With 20 laps to go at Talladega Superspeedway, Jeff Gordon found himself in 2nd place. However, as is usually the case at Talladega, things can change drastically in an instant with one move in the draft. Gordon faded outside the top-20 with 16 laps to go and rallied back slightly to finish 14th. He trails points leader Jimmie Johnson by 34 points with 4 races remaining in the season. Gordon’s 9th consecutive top-15 finish is a study in consistency, but he was hoping for more at Talladega.

Gordon started 19th and played it conservative at the outset by dropping to 33rd place behind the lead draft. On lap 10, he dropped to 35th place while running with Kevin Harvick and others distantly behind the 20-car pack at the front of the field. At the 100-mile mark, Gordon ran in 30th place in conservative mode more than 3 seconds behind the leader. He stayed out during a cycle of green flag pit stops and led a lap before coming to pit road on lap 46. Following stops he ran in 25th place on lap 50. Gordon drafted up to 20th place behind David Reuttiman on lap 73, but slipped to 26th by the end of lap 74. The next caution waved on lap 76 when Marcos Ambrose and Juan Pablo Montoya wrecked in the tri-oval. Gordon took four tires during the round of pit stops and restarted in 25th place. At the halfway point, Gordon ran in 33rd in single file toward the rear of the drafting pack.

Gordon ran near 30th for the balance of the next fuel run. He stayed out during a green flag sequence to lead two more laps before coming to pit road for a two-tire stop on lap 125. He cycled through in 22nd place toward the back of the lead drafting pack. He then opted to join the competitive battle for position and moved up to 18th on lap 130 using the middle line. Drafting behind Michael McDowell he moved into the top-10 on lap 133. On lap 140 he moved to the high line and ran 7th behind Joey Logano. He ducked to the low line on lap 148 to draft in front of Jimmie Johnson. He advanced to 2nd place behind Dale Earnhardt Jr on lap 152. Gordon came to pit road with 27 to go for right side tires and cycled through in 3rd place behind Kyle Busch and Greg Biffle. He moved to 2nd place with 21 to go when Biffle moved to the high line. However, he was caught in the middle of a drafting line and slipped to 4th with 19 to go. Gordon moved to the low line with 13 to go and got a drafting push from Casey Mears to make a charge for 3rd place. However, the line struggled and Gordon dropped to 7th. He fell outside the top-20 with 9 laps to go and ran in a draft behind Clint Bowyer. With 3 to go, he moved into a drafting line behind Johnson in 18th place. After a crash on the final lap involving Mears and Austin Dillon, Gordon was credited with a 14th place finish.

Turning point
Gordon was shuffled from 2nd place outside the top-20 with 19 laps to go. That effectively ended his hopes for a solid finish.

JG’s comments
“It was a good day. I thought that the car was fantastic. I thought the team did an awesome job of executing our plan and we were in perfect position. And it just didn’t work out. I got kind of shoved on the back straightaway and was trying not to wreck and that got me out of a really good position and then we were kind of a sitting duck at that point and just went to the back and wanted to see what we could do with them on that final lap. And of course you know, a wreck is going to happen. I hope Austin (Dillon) and Casey (Mears) are okay. That looked pretty nasty.”

 source:  Jeff Gordon Online

 

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Charlotte In-Car Audio

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Jeff Gordon finished 7th at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He remains 4th in the NASCAR points standings, 36 points behind Matt Kenseth. As the polesitter, Gordon led the first 26 laps of the event. He’s led more laps in the last 7 races (153 laps) than he did in the first 24 races (151 laps) this season.

Gordon started on the pole and led the first 25 laps before the caution waved for JJ Yeley’s wall contact. After opting for four tires, Gordon restarted 8th on lap 30. He worked through drivers who took two tires and ran 5th on lap 38. However, he was unable to gain further headway prior to a green flag pit stop on lap 77. The next caution waved on lap 83 for Mark Martin’s engine. On the restart, Gordon used the outside line to take 3rd from Jimmie Johnson. However, he battled a tight handling issue and dropped to 5th as Johnson and Kyle Busch passed by lap 125. Gordon came to pit road for a green flag stop on lap 127. At the halfway point, Gordon ran in 5th place, more than 10 seconds behind race leader Kasey Kahne.

A debris caution on lap 172 brought the lead lap cars to pit road. Gordon gained two spots exiting the pits and restarted in 3rd. Kyle Busch went by shortly after the restart to send Gordon to 4th. Matt Kenseth passed on lap 217, which dropped Gordon to 5th. Three laps later Ryan Newman tracked Gordon down for position. He came to pit road for a green flag stop on lap 228. Gordon took 6th from Newman shortly after the stops, but gave the spot back on lap 273. He came to pit road for a green flag stop with 52 laps to go.

Gordon once again took 6th from Newman after the round of pit stops. A debris caution with 28 laps to go took fuel strategy out of the equation. Gordon opted for two tires and restarted in 2nd place on the outside of Kasey Kahne. Two laps after the restart, Matt Kenseth went by on the high side to send Gordon to 3rd. Brad Keselowski passed the #24 car on the backstretch to send him to 4th. With 19 laps to go, Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson passed Gordon for position. Kevin Harvick passed Gordon with 17 to go, which moved him back to 7th place where he finished.

Turning point
Crew chief Alan Gustafson opted for two tires on the final pit stop, thus mirroring the strategy of Kasey Kahne. Gordon restarted 2nd alongside Kahne, but was unable to hold the spot due to tight handling.

JG’s comments
“All weekend long other than qualifying we were just battling getting the car through the center of the corner having the rear security on fresh tires and then having the front turn once the pressures and heat got in the tires. So, it was a fantastic performance. That balance we could never really get it. Certainly it helps when you’re out front. That first run it was pretty good, but I could feel it going that direction. My car was really good on 4 tires. At the end I loved the call by Alan to take 2. It got us up there. I went through turns 1 and 2 and I was like, ‘oh boy, we might have something for them.’ But then I went through turns 3 and 4 and it got tight. Boy, it just kept getting tighter and tighter. I thought we were pretty fortunate to finish 7th. We put in a great effort to hang in there.”

“It was a solid night. I was really good out front there in the beginning. We really struggled all day on Friday and tonight we could just not get it to take off good and then be good on the long runs. It looked like some guys were maybe a little bit freer than us on the shorter runs, but we were still able to maintain some good laps times and then be good on the long runs. It was a solid effort. It was a great call there to try to make two (tires) work. Our car was just way too tight to be able to do it. We lost a few more positions than I was hoping. But it was still solid.”

 source: Jeff Gordon Online

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Kansas In-Car Audio

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It wasn’t a long-awaited win for Jeff Gordon in the Hollywood Casino 400, but a solid 3rd place finish moved him to 4th in the NASCAR standings, just 32 points from the lead. Gordon’s 429th career top-10 moved him past Dale Earnhardt for the 4th highest total in NASCAR history.

Gordon started 14th and ran well ahead of a lap 1 crash involving Danica Patrick. He advanced to 12th by lap 35 and ran 11th when the caution waved on lap 42 for Michael McDowell slowing on the track. Gordon opted for two tires on the pit stop and restarted in 4th place. He used the outside line to take 3rd, but returned to 4th when Jimmie Johnson passed on lap 69. Gordon came to pit road for a stop on lap 85, just prior to a debris caution on lap 87. Although the caution trapped him a lap down, he stayed out for the wave around to get back on the lead lap. He restarted in 28th place on lap 92. Gordon steadily gained spots and ran 21st at the 100-lap mark. Gordon had advanced to 18th before the caution waved on lap 118 for Landon Cassill’s engine. Pit stops followed with Gordon opting for two tires and restarting in 14th place. He ran 12th at the halfway mark just prior to a caution for a wreck involving Ryan Newman and Justin Allgaier.

Pit stops followed with Gordon opting for two tires. He restarted 11th on lap 144 and moved into the top-10 prior to the next caution for Travis Kvapil’s spin on lap 146. Gordon moved around Carl Edwards and Dale Earnhardt Jr on lap 152 to take 7th place. However, he battled a tight handling condition and dropped to 11th by lap 165. A caution for David Gilliland’s wreck with 97 to go brought Gordon to pit road for adjustments. He changed four tires and restarted in 19th place. Gordon gained 4 spots after the restart to run 15th, prior to a caution for Casey Mears’ wall contact on lap 180. Kyle Busch’s spin brought out another caution with Gordon moving up to 13th place. The next caution waved with 68 laps to go when Carl Edwards made contact with Busch, which sent him into the wall and destroyed the front of the M&M’s Toyota. Gordon came to pit road for four tires and restarted in 28th place. He came to top off the fuel with 61 laps to go.

Gordon worked through race traffic and ran 18th with 50 laps to go. He moved up to 11th place prior to a debris caution with 40 to go. Gordon came to pit road for two tires and restarted in 3rd place because he didn’t have to wait on fuel as the other drivers did. On the restart, Gordon moved around Jeff Burton to take the runner-up spot. He ran more than a second behind race leader Kevin Harvick before a caution for Brian Vickers’ crash slowed the field with 25 laps to go. He restarted on the inside of Harvick with 19 to go. Kurt Busch moved to the outside to pass Gordon in turn 1. Gordon settled into 3rd place behind Busch where he finished the race.

Turning point
Topping off the fuel with 61 laps to go allowed Gordon to spend less time on pit road when he came in for the final with 40 laps to go.

JG’s comments
“It was a great day for our team. Ever since the Chase started, they’ve been bringing me awesome race cars. We’re having a lot of fun out there. Everything could have gone wrong for us today, and there at the end it actually went right. So, that’s nice to have.”

ON POST-RACE DISCUSSION WITH KURT BUSCH

“It’s not a NASCAR race if you don’t have a discussion with another driver about an incident on the track. These restarts are so tough. Everybody’s trying to get every position they can. I got in the outside lane one time and (Kurt) just came up. The next lap I got to his bumper and got him loose. That led to him wanting to run into me on the right side on my door. These cars are so sensitive aerodynamic-wise. You just can’t have any little damage like that. It did seem to affect our car. I just wanted to have a good civil conversation with Kurt, and we did. We’re really proud to finish 3rd today.”

source: Jeff Gordon Online
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