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Atlanta II In Car Audio

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September 7 – – Jeff Gordon battled handling issues throughout the Pep Boys 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway en route to an 8th place finish.  He moved up to 2nd in points heading to Richmond — the final race before the chase for the championship begins.

Gordon started 4th and dropped to 6th within the first two laps before the tire pressures came up.  On lap 6, he took the 5th position from Kurt Busch.  He ran down Kyle Busch and moved into 4th a few laps later.  On lap 20, Gordon took 3rd from Jimmie Johnson.  The first caution came on lap 37 for Sam Hornish’s spin, which allowed the drivers to come in for adjustments.  Gordon, like all of his peers, dealt with handling issues during the opening run.   He came onto pit road in 3rd place and departed in the same position.

He took 2nd place for Kasey Kahne within two laps of the restart before falling back to 4th after getting loose in turn two.  On lap 48, he dropped back as Johnson and Denny Hamlin passed, and Mark Martin took a spot on lap 49.  Gordon fell to 9th on lap 50 as Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch went by.  Gordon fell to 16th on lap 60 battling a loose condition.  Sam Hornish’s second spin of the night brought out the caution and the leaders came to pit road.  Gordon restarted in 16th place on lap 65.  Within one lap of the restart, he used the outside line to move up to 11th. His forward momentum stalled and was back to 14th on lap 80.  Carl Edwards’ engine problem on lap 83 slowed the field for a caution period. Gordon gained four spots on pit road to move up to 9th place for the restart.  He pedaled up to 6th on lap 88 by taking advantage of Hamlin who spun the tires coming up to speed.  Gordon moved back into the top-5 with a pass on Kurt Busch on lap 89. Hamlin regrouped to take 5th on lap 91.

Max Papis’ wall contact on lap 105 brought the caution out.   Gordon held 6th through the round of pit stops.  On the restart, Gordon moved up to 4th on the outside line.  He took 3rd from Martin Truex on lap 116, before Johnson pushed him back to 4th one lap later.  He regrouped to take 3rd from Kyle Busch on lap 125.  A debris caution slowed the field on lap 131 as Gordon complained about a loose handling condition.   The pit crew turned a 12.7 second stop to push Gordon into the lead.  He chose the outside line for the restart and dropped to 2nd as Hamlin got a strong run off turn two.  Gordon went back to the front on lap 140 with a pass on Hamlin in turn one.  However, he slipped to 3rd on lap 167 after Hamlin and Kevin Harvick passed.  Two laps later, Brian Vickers went around Gordon on the outside line.  Dale Earnhardt Jr passed by on lap 176, and Mark Martin went by on lap 182.  Gordon came in for a four-tire change on lap 189 under the green flag.  Johnson’s spin on lap 201 brought the caution out with Gordon in 8th. He gained two spots during pit stops and restarted 6th on lap 204.

Gordon moved to 2nd on the restart, but slipped back to 4th as the tire run continued.  On lap 221, Earnhardt Jr and Martin passed to put Gordon back to 6th.  With 100 laps to go, Gordon ran in 8th while battling loose handling issues.   A caution for Kurt Busch and Reed Sorensen’s crash brought the field to pit road.  The pit crew once again did its job by gaining two spots.  He moved to 4th on the restart with 72 laps to go.   However, as was the case throughout the race, Gordon fell off as the run progressed.  He dropped two spots back to 6th with 60 to go.  Joey Logano’s spin with 57 to go brought the field back to the pit road.  Gordon exited pit road in 11th place due to a dropped lugnut.  He re-entered the top-10 with 47 laps to go, and took 9th from Kyle Busch four laps later.   Brian Vickers took a position from Gordon with 29 to go, sending him back to 10th.  Clint Bowyer’s spin with 16 to go set up some drama for the finish of the race.  Gordon lost a position on pit road and restarted in 11th with 11 laps to go.  He moved to 8th shortly after the restart but didn’t challenge Vickers for position.  At the front of the field, Kasey Kahne took the lead from Kevin Harvick on the final restart to win his second race of the season.

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JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT IMPALA SS, FINISHED 8TH:

“It was really crazy. There were a lot of things going on. I can’t even keep up with all the different things that happened. There were times I thought we had the car to beat then I thought we were going to go a lap down. We were trying to keep up with the changing conditions whether it was track, tires or whatever it was. Man, we were all over the place and never could seem to find any consistency. It was a good fight, a good top-10 and it was good to lead some laps.”

Bristol II In Car Audio

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August 23 – – Jeff Gordon’s 23rd place finish in the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway closed out an inconsistent summer stretch in which he has posted just two top-5 finishes in the last 7 races. At Bristol, Gordon worked his way up to 8th from his 33rd place starting position, but battled a loose handling — and damaged — car in the second half of the race. He went two laps down before gaining one back late in the event. At the front of the field, Kyle Busch held off Mark Martin for his fourth win of the season.

Gordon started 33rd and fell back to 35th within three laps. The first caution came on lap 11 for Joey Logano’s cut tire. Gordon came onto pit road for a four-tire change. He restarted in 32nd place on lap 16, and followed Michael Waltrip in traffic on the outside line to move to 28th place on lap 25. He eventually got around Waltrip and moved to 25th on lap 30. Gordon held the outside line but couldn’t move forward due to race traffic. The second caution waved on lap 64 when Denny Hamlin cut a tire. Gordon had advanced up to 24th position by running an extremely high line in the corners. Pit stops ensued with Gordon exiting in the 24th spot. On the restart, he held the high line and got a strong run up to 22nd. He entered the top-20 on lap 85 with a pass on Robby Gordon.

Gordon moved to 19th by lap 100, but began losing grip off the corners. He fell to 21st over the next 30 laps and needed a caution flag for more adjustments. He got the caution he needed on lap 135 after A.J. Allmendinger broke a brake rotor. Gordon came to pit road and had the benefit of an opening in front due to Regan Smith having been lapped. He restarted in 20th place on lap 141 and quickly gained three spots. He moved to 16th on lap 151. A caution for Bobby Labonte’s spin on lap 163 brought the caution. Gordon came to pit road for a tire change in an effort to fix a tight handling condition. He moved to 17th on lap 173, and took 14th on lap 177 due to the fresher tires. The high line was again preferred as Gordon moved to 12th on lap 187. Three laps later he passed Greg Biffle to move into the top-10. At the 200 lap mark, Gordon was up to 8th position.

Martin Truex took the 8th position from Gordon on lap 220. The caution waved on lap 255 for debris from John Andretti’s car. Gordon came to pit road in 9th place and departed in 12th. He briefly moved into the top-10 before dropping back to 13th on lap 280. Five laps later, he fell to 15th while he continued to battle loose handling issues. Dale Earnhardt Jr passed on lap 293 to put Gordon back in 17th. By lap 310, he fell to 21st, and was back in 25th on lap 319 as the leaders approached to put him a lap down. Jimmie Johnson passed on lap 330 to put Gordon one lap down. His problems were exacerbated as Brian Vickers was lapped, meaning that Gordon was not the first car one lap down. The caution waved on lap 356 after David Gilliland hit the wall. Vickers received the free pass to get back on the lead lap. Gordon restarted in 24th and battled to be the first car one lap down. However, he fell to 26th as the laps wound down. With 100 laps to go, he was mired in traffic in 26th place and had no chance for the free pass. Gordon went two laps down on lap 406. He got one of the laps back by staying out under a brief caution for a passing rain cloud.

Martin Truex’s cut tire brought the caution with 20 laps to go. Jeff Burton received the free pass just ahead of Gordon. The restart with 15 laps remaining saw Kyle Busch pull ahead of Mark Martin. With 9 laps left, Michael Waltrip’s wreck brought the caution, but David Stremme was ahead of Gordon to get the free pass. At that point, Gordon’s fate for the night was sealed with a 23rd place effort.

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Michigan II In Car Audio

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August 17 – – After several shaky races over the summer, Jeff Gordon re-asserted himself with a strong 2nd place finish in the Carfax 400 at Michigan Speedway.  Gordon and crew chief Steve Letarte used the race as a preview for several Chase races — including the October race at California Speedway.  If the performance at Michigan is any indication, Gordon will be a contender for the victory.  However, there is still work to do to challenge reigning champion Jimmie Johnson, who dominated the Michigan race only to come up short on a fuel gamble for the second time this season at the 2-mile track. Brian Vickers and Gordon both ran the final 51 laps on a tank of fuel.  Vickers took the checkered flag more than a second ahead of Gordon after Johnson pitted with 3 laps to go.

Gordon started 21st and dropped back to 25th in the opening laps while running the low line.   As the tire pressures came up, Gordon moved forward. By lap 6, he was back up to 21st position.   The caution flag waved for rain showers on lap 7, which resulted in a red flag.  After a half hour delay, the cars returned to the track.  Gordon pitted for fuel only under the caution flag and restarted in 16th place.   He moved to 13th on lap 18 and set his sights on the top-10 as the field began stringing out.  Gordon claimed 11th on lap 23 and moved into the top-10 on lap 26.  Gordon took 9th from Martin Truex on lap 29 as his forward march continued.  The leaders began pitting on lap 41, thus allowing Gordon to move up in the running order.  Because he pitted earlier in the race, Gordon could stay on the track for additional laps, and inherited the lead on lap 44.

Gordon’s lead was short-lived as he pitted for tires and fuel on lap 45.  After the pit stop sequence, Gordon ran in the 7th position.   Robby Gordon’s cut tire on lap 54 brought out the second caution flag.  Gordon opted for a two tire change and exited in 2nd place behind Matt Kenseth.  He restarted in 3rd because Paul Menard did not pit.  On the restart, Gordon moved up to 2nd behind Kenseth. Jimmie Johnson took the runner-up position on lap 62, and Mark Martin pushed Gordon back to 4th on lap 70 as four tires played out its advantage.  By lap 88, Gordon dropped to 7th place due to the older tires on the left side of the car.  Gordon came to pit road on lap 97 for a four-tire change complete with a track bar adjustment.

Gordon cycled through the pit stop sequence and held onto the 7th spot.   He moved up to 5th at the halfway point as the handling improved on the car.  On lap 107, he took 4th from Clint Bowyer.  A debris caution slowed the field on lap 115 and brought the leaders to pit road.  Gordon, who took four tires, departed in 7th place due to several drivers taking two tires.   On the restart, David Ragan got loose coming off turn two just behind Gordon.  Ragan spun sideways and collected Kurt Busch who impacted the retaining wall on the backstretch.  On lap 132, Gordon pulled low in turn one to take 6th from Tony Stewart.  The caution waved one lap later for Ragan’s spin on the frontstretch.   The restart on lap 140 saw Gordon take off from the outset.  He moved to 4th within one lap, and took 3rd from Martin on lap 143.  Two laps later he passed Kenseth for the runner-up spot.  A passing shower brought the caution flag out on lap 146.

Pit stops ensued and Gordon lost 9 spots after taking four tires.  He restarted in 16th due to six cars staying on the track.  Gordon moved up to 15th on lap 154, but was distantly behind the leaders due to the field stringing out.  David Stremme’s talent evaporation for the second consecutive weekend brought out the caution flag on lap 157.  Gordon stayed on the track to gain track position — at the expense of having plenty of fuel to make it to the end if the race went green.  Gordon restarted in 8th place and used a strong run on the outside line to take 6th on lap 161.   He took 5th from Kenseth with 35 laps to go.  Two laps later, Gordon moved around Kevin Harvick to take 4th place.   With 30 to go, he passed Martin and moved up to 3rd.  Johnson ran out of fuel with 3 laps to go and handed the lead to Brian Vickers.  Gordon moved up to 2nd but distantly trailed Vickers at the white flag.  Vickers took the checkered flag for the first time since his last lap victory at Talladega in 2006.  Both Vickers and Gordon ran the last 51 laps on a tank of fuel.  Gordon moved up to 2nd in the points standings due to Johnson’s 33rd place finish after the late stop for fuel.  “I knew I saved a lot leaving pit road,” Gordon said.   “I feel like that got us a lap.   When the caution came out, I shut the engine off and got another one.  We wanted to conserve a little, but then Dale Jr started coming really hard.”

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“It was a really good run. I mean, we started 21st.  Just slowly but surely worked our way up to the front.  We got in the top five there that one time.  We took two tires.  That got us a little bit behind.  We were playing a little bit of catch up from that point on.  We had a good car.  We didn’t have the best car.  But like you saw today, the best car doesn’t always win.  We did everything we could to get the best finish we could.  I really felt confident we were going to make it, even though Steve told me we were four short when we left pit road that last pit stop.  I shut the engine off so much.  I felt like I got us six laps.  At least with the caution, I felt like I did.  Felt pretty confident I didn’t have to conserve a whole lot.  Dale Jr was pressuring me a lot at the end.  I was waiting, to see if the 43 and 83 ran out.  One did, one didn’t.”

Q.  Jeff, very early in the race, lap 27 or 30, it seems you and Mark Martin were running identical speeds.  What was your setup?   How is the information sharing among your teammates?

A.  “The information sharing is fantastic.  Felt like this weekend we came really well prepared with our notes from the last race and the run that we had and our teammates. I mean, we all have our different driving styles, likes and dislikes.  You rarely ever start with the same setup.  But I would say that we were pretty close to the 5 and the 48.  I felt like we ran about like them.  We weren’t able to maintain the track position that one time we got it, because we were on two tires instead of four.  I felt like we were one of the best cars on fresh tires, then we’d really get tight.  Those guys were maybe just a little bit freer than us and better than us in the long run.  I felt like the three of us were really close.  There at the beginning I saw Dale Jr get real loose.  I don’t know about where they were with their setup, but I know they had to make some big adjustments.  I was pretty impressed that they were saying, Hey, the 88 is the car to beat, he’s coming hard and fast.  Obviously they made some good adjustments.  I’d say we all had really good cars, and probably not too far off on the setups.”

Q.  Jeff, how is the back?  Second now in Sprint Cup points with three races to go before the Chase.

A. “My back is fine.  I would rather be third in points right now and had that win today.  That’s all that really matters at this point for us.  We’re having a great year.  We’re showing that we’re strong, a great team.  I just would like to have a few more bonus points going into the Chase, a little bit more momentum.  This certainly is going to help towards the momentum if we can go to Bristol next week and keep putting a strong finish out there and effort.  That’s going to mean as much to me as anything.”

Watkins Glen In Car Audio

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August 10 – – The rain-delayed HelluvaGood at the Glen was a day of ups and downs — well, mostly downs — for Jeff Gordon.  Before the race, Gordon took the blame for a poor qualifying effort, yielding a 31st place start.  The team’s goals for the day were to have fun and play strategy to gain track position, hoping for a lucky caution.

Gordon clawed his way through heavy traffic and took advantage of an excellent first pit stop to reach 16th place by lap 22.  On lap 23, the David Stremme’s talent evaporation resulted in a spun in the inner loop, damaging Gordon’s and Kevin Harvick’s cars and forcing an extra pit stop.

Gordon once again chewed his way from 31st to 20th at lap 41 when Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashed, but couldn’t move his damaged car forward.  On lap 62, Sam Hornish ricocheted off the inside barrier in turn 9 after contact with Kasey Kahne and helicoptered into Gordon’s car, slamming it into the barrier in a head-on crash that ended Gordon’s day.  Gordon exited under his own power and was saddled with his first DNF of the season with a 37th place finish.

At the front of the field, Tony Stewart held Marcos Ambrose at bay to win his 5th career race at Watkins Glen — the most of any driver.  Stewart expanded his points lead to more than 250 points on Jimmie Johnson, and more than 340 points on Jeff Gordon.  Maybe there is some silver lining in the Chase system after all.

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Post Race Comments

“It wasn’t that hard of a hit its just my back can’t stand too many hits. I really was concerned for Sam (Hornish). He took a heavy hit into the wall, a heavy hit by me and Jeff Burton. I saw him go off into the grass and I knew he was going to come out in front of me and I was just hoping to squeeze by and didn’t make it. It just made a rough weekend for the DuPont Chevrolet even worse. Now we just leave here and focus on Michigan.”

HOW DO YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW?

“I’m hurting. Everything feels good except my lower back where I’ve already had issues. It will just take a couple of weeks for it to heal. By then we’ll go to Bristol and get through that then we’ll be alright.”

WHEN YOU KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO HIT HIM, DO YOU BRACE DOWN OR RELAX?

“The first thing I was trying to do was make it by him. Actually I sped up a little bit. I saw him slide off there and I was trying to get off the corner as fast as I could to get by before he got out there but as soon as I saw him and bounce out I knew I was going to hit him. I just braced myself and got on the brakes and waited for the impact.”

HOW IS YOUR BACK? ARE YOU OKAY?

“It’s just not what I needed you know. You take three or four steps forward up to this point, and you take a hit like that and you take a couple steps backwards. So yeah, it was a heavy impact. I’m just glad Sam (Hornish) is all right. I saw him get wide there off the carousel and I knew he was going to hit the tire barrier and ricochet off and I was just hoping I’d get by him before he got out to me and man, I nailed him and spun him around like a top and my car just came to a halt and it really took a toll on my back again. So I hate that, but I was real proud of this DuPont Chevrolet team. We didn’t have a great weekend going and the car wasn’t perfect, but we were playing out the strategy and got caught up in that first incident. It’s just one of those days. But we were going to ride it out and make something out of it. I think Steve Letarte had some tricks up his sleeve with the pit strategy. Just wrong place, wrong time.”

WHAT WILL YOU HAVE TO DO THIS WEEK TO GET READY FOR MICHIGAN NEXT WEEK WITH YOUR BACK?

“Oh, Michigan is pretty easy. If we were going to Bristol next week, I’d be concerned. So we’ve got a couple of weeks to hopefully heal. We went through this at Dover when I hit at Dover and hurt my back as well. Every time I hit something it takes a toll on my back, but it seems to recover. But when you’re braking that hard it’s already pretty tight and then you hit like that and it spasms a bit. But we’ll be all right. Rough hit really for Sam. I saw him get taken wide there off the carousel and once I saw him starting to go around I knew he was going to get the outside wall and I kind of knew with what we saw with Jason Lefler in the Nationwide race. I was just trying to pick where to go. I don’t know if there is any safe place to go from where I was sitting. I just nailed him. I tried to squeeze by him on the outside and there was just no way. Nailed him and spun him around like a top. It took a toll on my back. Nothing else hurts, everything else is good. It’s jsut the back. Then I got into the outside wall the other side and was just sitting there in the track hoping nobody was going to hit me again.”

ITS BEEN A TOUGH WEEKEND FOR YOU.

“Sure. The only saving grace is that there are no road courses in the Chase. You want the bonus points. You want a good run. You want momentum. We just haven’t been good here in quite some time. I think our car was actually decent today we just didn’t qualify good enough to show for it. We moved up quite a few spots which is already tough to do on a road course. You don’t see anybody passing unless they’ve got fresh tires out there. I got caught up in that first incident and that really messed up our strategy. We were making some ground up until that happened. I’m proud of the guys. We made improvements as the weekend went on. We’ll just have to wait until the next time we come back here to show just how many improvements we really made?”

ARE YOU SORE?

“Oh man, my left side and my back is super sore. It’s going to take probably a couple of weeks for it to heal completely and then we’ll be back to new. This happened at Dover when I hit the wall in Dover it was similar. This is a little bit different angle and it’s hurting. Luckily we’ve got Michigan coming up next weekend. It’s pretty easy on things.”

WHAT’S YOUR FIRST REACTION AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

“Well first reacation is man that hurt and then you hope you don’t get hit again. I was just bracing myself. I saw cars that were still coming by pretty fast. As long as the car wasn’t on fire I was good to sit in there until everybody went by. Then I just wanted to get out and see what kind of pain I was in with my back. I knew I was hurting and then was wondering is Sam (Hornish) was okay because he took a couple of heavy hits there. I saw Jeff Burton was in it too so just making sure everybody was alright and then get back here and go home.”

HOW MUCH DO YOU PROTECT YOUR BACK NOW? “There’s nothing you can do. You got to get out there and you’ve got to just hope you don’t get into situations. It’s not life-threatening or anything its just painful. I’ve had MRI’s and everything else after these things and everything looks fine. It’s just some spasms that go on. You’ve just got to calm that down but it doesn’t just calm down by itself in a day. It really does take a couple of weeks.”

Pocono II In Car Audio

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August 3 – – Denny Hamlin led the most laps en route to his first Cup series victory since March 2008. Hamlin claimed the Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway after passing Clint Bowyer for the lead with 10 laps to go.  He kept a charging Juan Pablo Montoya at bay to win for the third time at Pocono.

Jeff Gordon’s day was an exercise in traffic-induced frustration.  He ran in the top-10 for the balance of the race, but a late four-tire change put him back in 15th place.  He battled door to door with Kurt Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jimmie Johnson, among others, in the closing 20 laps.  Gordon finished the race in 8th as the handling on his car seemed at its best in the final run.

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“It was a good car; definitely the best car we’ve had here in a while. I’m really excited about that and that we’ve been able to make those kinds of improvements. The strategy and the track position didn’t go our way today, so we ended up eighth. But it’s nice when you’re passing cars; good cars even toward the end of the race.”

HOW WAS THE RACING DIFFERENT AT POCONO WITH THE DOUBLE-FILE RESTARTS?
“I can’t even explain to you how insane it was out there. And when you get guys that have no tires that have stayed out, or two tires, against guys that have four tires, it just shakes it up so much because you’ve got such a speed difference and guys trying to hang on to position and guys fighting hard to get ’em and I mean it was just nuts. I saw so many guys rubbing, banging, smokin’ sideways, three-wide, four-wide, and I was right in the middle of it at times as well. It’s not the most fun, but when you make it out of it, you’re like whew, and you know it’s awesome racing to watch on TV and from the grandstands.”

JIMMIE JOHNSON WAS THREE LAPS DOWN AND MANAGED TO COME BACK AND FINISH 13TH. WAS THERE A TIME WHEN YOU GUYS WERE RACING FOR POSITION WHEN YOU WONDERED IS THIS GUY ON THE LEAD LAP?
“Right there at the end I knew he was back on the lead lap and I wasn’t expecting him to pass me, that’s for sure. But you know, these guys, you can never count them out and that’s what makes them a championship caliber team and Jimmie’s a great driver. So, it’s unfortunate that they had a car that was probably capable of winning, or at least battling up there for the win, that it kind of took them out of it there. But they fought back and still had a pretty decent day out of it.”

YOU ARE SOLID WITH FIVE RACES LEFT GOING INTO THE CHASE, DO YOU SAY YOU’RE GOING TO BE MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN YOU TYPICALLY WOULD BE?
“Yeah, I was being aggressive. The set-up was a little bit more aggressive for us, which paid off. Steve Letarte was real aggressive on the pit strategy. He probably is going to beat himself up a little bit over that last one, but all day long we were pitting early and taking two tires, and doing the things we needed to do to get ourselves in position to win. And there at the end, you can’t always factor in guys that are going to be on pit road when the caution comes out. And that cost us probably another three or four positions.”

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Brickyard 400 In Car Audio

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July 27 – – Jimmie Johnson hung around long enough and was in the right spot at the right time to claim the win.  That’s been a similar refrain over the last four years in the NASCAR world.  Johnson scored back-to-back victories in the Brickyard 400 at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a late pass on Mark Martin.  The victory was his third win at the Brickyard, and 43rd of his career.

Jeff Gordon battled through race traffic but was unable to make significant headway due to several long green flag runs.  Gordon started 22nd and dropped a few spots in the opening laps.  He hooked up in a draft behind Kevin Harvick and moved up to 21st on lap 8.  He cracked the top-20 on lap 11 and settled into the 20th position.  Gordon moved up to the 15th spot following green flag pit stops on lap 37.  A caution for Kyle Busch’s cut tire and subsequent contact with the wall on lap 57 brought the field to pit road.  Gordon exited the pits in 13th place, having benefited from a stall opening in front of him due to Joe Nemechek dropping out of the race in the opening laps.

Gordon used the inside line to his advantage on the restart and moved into 11th position on lap 65.  He entered the top-10 on lap 67 and ran in 10th until the next round of pit stops on lap 91.  Gordon moved to 8th with a pass on Dale Earnhardt Jr. on lap 100.  However, he gave the spot back to Earnhardt Jr. during the final round of green flag pit stops with 35 laps to go.  He trailed his Hendrick Motorsports teammate for just two laps as the engine expired on the #88 Chevrolet on lap 128.  Gordon restarted in 8th position with 26 laps to go.

As Gordon faded on the restart, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Johnson took the lead from Martin with a power move on the outside entering turn one.  Gordon fell to 10th before passing Matt Kenseth with 22 laps to go to re-assume the 9th spot.

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Chicago In Car Audio

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July 12 – – Jeff Gordon posted a solid runner-up finish at Chicagoland Speedway after a late rally from handling problems.  Gordon battled a tight handling condition at the outset and struggled getting off the corners virtually the entire race.  He fell out of the top-10, but rallied back through pit stops to crack the top-10 with 50 laps to go. Gordon moved up to 8th with 25 laps to go and closed in on Kurt Busch for a position before the final caution with 21 laps remaining.  Gordon was the first car to come onto pit road.  Contact between Busch and Jimmie Johnson forced Gordon onto the track apron with 15 laps to go where he got around both drivers to take 4th place.  With 13 to go, he dove low on the backstretch to take 3rd from Kasey Kahne.  Three laps later, he took the runner-up spot from Denny Hamlin.

A caution for Kyle Busch’s spin brought out the caution with 6 laps to go.  Gordon restarted on the inside of his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Mark Martin with 2 laps to go.  Martin took off on the restart and Gordon slipped behind Kahne.  He grouped to take 2nd from Kahne on the final lap, but was distantly behind Martin at the finish.  Martin and Gordon collected $1 million from the race’s title sponsor for the 1-2 finish, since the pair finished 1-2 in the Michigan race sponsored by the same company in June.

Gordon is scheduled to be a presenter at the annual ESPN awards on Wednesday night.

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JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DUPONT IMPALA SS — Finished 2nd:

GOOD CALL BY YOUR CREW CHIEF TO GET YOU SOME TIRES, WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE AT THE END? “Well we had our struggles. We had a good car, we were just a little too tight there at the beginning and we were making adjustments. Carl Edwards and I got racing really hard and he got loose underneath me and we about wrecked so we had a long battle from that point on. It was an incredible call that (crew chief) Steve Letarte made and the whole pit crew just did a fantastic job getting us off pit road. It was four tires then it was just a battle maneuvering through traffic with cars slipping and sliding all over the place. That last restart Mark (Martin) went a little early and I just spun the tires when I tried to get it going. It’s still a great finish, one-two for Hendrick. Got to thank the Patriot Academy and DuPont. It’s a privilege having them on board. We could certainly use a night like this and that’s important in the Chase. We’re running really strong and showing them what we’re made of on these tracks.”

Daytona Coke Zero 400 In Car Audio

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July 5 – – Jeff Gordon struggled to a 28th place finish with a damaged car in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.  Gordon battled handling problems for the first half of the race before getting swept up in a wreck on lap 77.  He went on to finish as the last car on the lead lap in a race that saw a dramatic last lap battle between Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch.  As  Busch attempted to block Stewart, he found himself on the receiving end of a tap.  Stewart went by to claim the victory, while Busch’s car was wrecked beyond recognition.

Jeff led the first lap of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that was the only lap he led, and the only time he was in contention.  Hung out on lap 2 by aggressive moves on the part of Denny Hamlin and Kurt Busch, Gordon was shuffled quickly to the back of the main pack.  He was able to move back up to 8th position in the first quarter of the race, but a loose race car caused him to drift back to the mid-twenties, and on lap 77, he was caught up in a seven-car wreck that started many places ahead of him.  The car was badly damaged on the right front, but heroic efforts by the Dupont crew kept him on the lead lap, even though the car was damaged and he had intermittent radio problems.  A caution at lap 103 allowed the team to repair the splitter and correct handling issues and he restarted 26th, still on the lead lap.  Gordon chose to hold his wounded car at the rear of the pack, saying “we’ve got a better chance to drive through the big one than to be in it.”  Another caution at lap 152 allowed Gordon to pick up a few more spots, but a bad restart left Gordon last on the lead lap.  Kyle Busch’s violent wreck on the final lap left Tony Stewart in Victory Lane and Gordon 28th, last car on the lead lap.

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New Hampshire – In Car Audio

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June 29 – – Although Jeff Gordon didn’t come away with a victory in the rain-shortened Lenox 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, a strong 2nd place effort showed that Gordon had made significant improvement on the flat tracks. Since New Hampshire is the first race in the ‘chase for the championship,’ the strong effort in June should pay dividends in mid-September.

Gordon started on the outside of the front row and immediately jumped into the lead. However, he lost the top spot to Kurt Busch on lap 7. A caution for Patrick Carpentier’s brush with the wall slowed the field on lap 15. Gordon, and most of the top-10, elected to stay on the track. On the restart, he powered ahead of Busch on the outside line to take the lead. Jamie McMurray’s wreck on lap 22 slowed the field. Gordon chose the inside line for the restart and jumped to the outside to hold onto the lead heading into the first turn. Once again, the green flag run was short-lived as A.J. Allmendinger’s spin brought the caution out on lap 28. On the next restart, Busch jumped to the lead on the outside line.

A competition caution on lap 45 brought the field to pit road. Gordon departed pit road with the lead. He chose the outside line for the restart, and subsequently lost the lead to Jimmie Johnson.

Gordon settled in behind Johnson until green flag pit stops on lap 124. Gordon trailed his Hendrick Motorsports teammate by about one second on the track. A debris caution on lap 155 brought the field to pit road. Gordon opted for two tires and exited pit road with the lead. Gordon took the outside line on the restart and held onto the lead. The caution waved on lap 172 after Paul Menard hit the wall. Gordon once again chose the outside line for the restart. Gordon got a jump on the restart, which allowed him to stay in front of the day’s major incident. Martin Truex was turned sideways by Kyle Busch on the fronstretch while coming up to speed. Truex spun toward the outside wall and collected Casey Mears, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, David Ragan, and Brian Vickers. The race was red-flagged for track clean-up.

Gordon got the jump on the restart on lap 180, but the field only ran three laps before a caution for Joey Logano’s cut tire. Gordon raced to the lead on the restart and battled side-by-side with Tony Stewart for a few laps before Scott Speed’s spin brought out the caution flag on lap 190. On the restart, Stewart battled alongside Gordon and took the lead on the backstretch. Gordon ran 2nd to Stewart before green flag pit stops on lap 235. Gordon beat Stewart off pit road and was in position to take the race lead once the stops cycled through the field. However, with rain showers on the horizon, Ryan Newman and Joey Logano stayed on the track in an effort to win a rain-shortened race. Gordon’s fresh tires cut Newman’s 15 second lead in half with 40 laps to go. Newman came to pit road with 38 laps to go after running out of fuel. Joey Logano inherited the lead as steady rain began falling, thus necessitating a caution flag. Gordon held off Busch for the runner-up position just before the caution flag. The race was red flagged with 27 laps to go. The victory was Logano’s first in the Cup series.

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June 21 – – Kasey Kahne held off Tony Stewart on a series of late race restarts to win his first career road course race in the Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway. Jeff Gordon’s prospects were hindered by a pit road speeding penalty that put him back in 32nd place. He rallied back with a strong effort in the final 20 laps as he gained 15 spots during the closing stages. A green/white/checkered flag finish allowed Gordon to move up from 13th to 9th at the checkered flag.

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STEVE LETARTE, CREW CHIEF, NO. 24 DUPONT IMPALA SS – Finished 9th:

“The DuPont Chevrolet just wasn’t as fast as we really needed to be all weekend. We made some changes for the race. I don’t think that made it any better. So he (Jeff Gordon) battled real good. We pitted one time we probably shouldn’t have. We worked the first caution really well. We got a little track position and then we had kind of a poor pit stop, and got caught speeding all at the same time and had to go to the back. But the guys kept their heads up and we raced all the way and that’s what you’ve got to do at all these races. So to come home with a top 10 was really impressive.”

DOUBLE FILE RESTARTS ON A ROAD COURSE, DID THEY WORK TODAY?

“It looked like it was a good race, so yeah. The question is, what is work? So I thought it was great. There were some passes and there was some excitement. Some guys were probably disappointed that they lost track position, but it gave us an opportunity. We started 33rd there with about 30 or 35 (laps) to go and we got all the way up to ninth. So I’m a big fan of it at the moment.”

DID JEFF GORDON SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HIS BACK? HE MENTIONED IT MIGHT BE A CONCERN ON A ROAD COURSE

“He didn’t say anything to me. I just saw him and he looked fine to me. I think his back is a whole lot better than the car we gave him.”

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