Jeff Gordon

DEI asked:


He starts out with “Earnhardt once said ……”

What is the difference between Jeff Gordons car and a porcupine?
On a porcupine, the ****** are on the outside!

Gordon walks into the shop and both of his ears are all bandaged up. Rick says, “What happened to your ears?” Wonderboy says, “Yesterday I was ironing my shirt when the phone rang and I answered the iron.” Rick says, “Well, that explains one ear, but what happened to your other ear?” Gordon says, “Well, jeez, I had to call the doctor.”

GORDON IN JAIL! Jeff Gordon was arrested last night for trespassing and breaking and entering. He was picked up on the floor of DEI Motorsports. When reached for comment, Gordon said, “I just wanted to finally get a look at the FRONT of one of Junior’s cars!”

These jokes are in no way meant to be taken seriously, but if you are one of those stuck up Gordon fans with no sense of humor than too bad.

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ALVA

princessamyb269@sbcglobal.net asked:


Tony Stewart wins 2005 Championship. Dale Jimmie Jeff and someone else toasts him and they dump their drinks on their heads and Dale Jr says Lets Eat. I want to find it on You Tube!

BERNIE

Jeremy Dunn asked:


According to a multitude of fans and media members, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. encountered a travesty of a season while driving for Hendrick Motorsports in 2008. Apparently, he was supposed to jump into a Hendrick Motorsports prepared car and post Jimmie Johnson-like stats. When the 2008 season began last February at Daytona, Earnhardt, Jr. captured the Bud Shootout and one of the Gatorade 125 races, increasing his expectations even more.

As the season progressed, Earnhardt, Jr. enjoyed several solid showings throughout the first half of the year. He nearly won a number of races, most notably at Richmond in May when he was spun by Kyle Busch with just a handful of laps remaining. In fact, for the first quarter of the season, Earnhardt, Jr. was arguably the top performing Hendrick Motorsports driver despite the fact that he was shut out of victory lane.

The first win finally occurred at the 2-mile speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Earnhardt, Jr. ran among the top five and ten for most of the race, but it was superior fuel mileage that earned him his first and only victory of the season.

Earnhardt, Jr. spent most of the first half of the season among the top three in the Sprint Cup championship standings.

Following his victory at Michigan, Earnhardt, Jr.’s performance began to wane a little. He would only score one top ten finish in the preceding ten races; nevertheless, he still easily qualified for the ten raceChase for the Championship.

His championship pursuit was far from spectacular, as he scored only three top ten finishes in the final ten races and finished last among all twelve drivers in the Chase for the Championship in the standings. Certainly, it was not an ideal way to begin his career at Hendrick Motorsports; however, was it a disaster?

It seems as if Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has topped everyone’s list as the most disappointing driver of the 2008 Sprint Cup campaign. He could have done a lot worse.

Firstly, let us take a glimpse at some hard facts. Earnhardt, Jr. finished twelfth in the championship standings, better than Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Juan Pablo Montoya, Martin Truex, Jr., Jamie McMurray, and other familiar stars.

He scored ten top five finishes. Only six drivers in the entire Sprint Cup series scored more top five finishes. Under the traditional championship format, Earnhardt, Jr. would have placed seventh in the final standings, higher than Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Matt Kenseth.

He completed 98.6 percent of the laps he races, which is a personal career high. His average running position was 11.6, fourth among all drivers.

Most significantly, Earnhardt, Jr. won a race, something that Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, and twenty-two other full-time drivers could not accomplish.

A true measure of a driver’s performance is the driver ratings. Driver rating’s are an intricate formula consisting of wins, finishes, top fifteen finishes, average running position while on the lead lap, average speed under green flag conditions, fastest laps, most laps led, and lead lap finishes. Basically, the driver’s with the highest rating are the ones that are frequently running near the front of the pack.

Earnhardt, Jr. finished the season with a driver rating of 99.0, which was fourth among all Sprint Cup drivers. Only Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, and Kyle Busch produced a better driver rating than Earnhardt, Jr, whose rating was higher than Jeff Gordon, Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick, and Tony Stewart.

So fans, was Dale Earnhardt, Jr. really that awful?

He is the most popular driver in NASCAR, and that comes with monumental exposure. Additionally, he is the son of seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt, Sr, which that alone adds insurmountable pressure. Honestly, it does not matter how well Dale Earnhardt, Jr. performs, he will always fall short of expectations, because people expect his performance to match is popularity, which is utterly impossible. He is a victim of his own name and fame.



JOEL

bunky asked:


Jeff currently has 81 victories & has a few years left in him. Tony Stewart has 32 wins but started racing 6 years after Jeff & Kurt Busch has 17 wins in his career as well as Earnhardt Jr. Personally I don’t see any of these drivers passing Jeff Gordon when their careers are over.

WENDELL

iDunno asked:


After the duel Jeff Gordon said something about if you pick the top 12 finishes for daytona you win something…from pepsi?

RICARDO

Claudia Beckford asked:


Kyle Busch overcame the pit-road penalty at Darlington and accomplished his third victory of the year. After the crowd booed him and after calling his vehicle pathetic, despite all he found the victory lane again. NASCAR’s least popular driver raced to his third Sprint Cup Series victory of the season Saturday night, winning a battle of destruction at the track “Too Tough to Tame.”

“How many times did I hit the wall? I don’t know, one, two, three, four, probably five or six,” Busch said. “I’ve got to thank my team, they build them as strong as they can for me, ’cause I like to knock the walls down with them.”

Throughout the season this victory has become his eight one; he has achieved most of his victories in a very convincing way. And this one was no different, as Busch led a race-high 169 of the 367 laps in a Toyota that he described early in the race as the “most pathetic car” he’d ever driven.

Busch did show he has got talent indeed; he became the youngest driver to win at NASCAR’s oldest speed way. There is no doubt Darlington is one of the hardest places to compete; an offseason repaving project smoothed the asphalt on the egg-shaped, 1.366-mile superspeedway; the result was a new surface which fits the entire field and the track is now extremely fast and a bit dangerous.

Busch was dropped to number 29 despite leading early in the race but was penalized when his crew left a lug nut off his rear wheel following a pit stop. Lap by lap he battled his way back to the front, patiently picking off Jimmie Johnson, Earnhardt and finally seven-time Darlington winner Jeff Gordon to reclaim the top position.

He was advised the turns were pretty dangerous and he had to take it slow and easy, but he couldn’t do it. He slammed the walls so many times, his right side of the car was destroyed. But he was not capable of going slow neither keep his feet off the gas until he finished.

On the other hand; Edwards finished second and was pleased with the outcome after initially disliking the new surface. Gordon finished third, who was happy but frustrated at the same time as he is still looking for his first victory of the season.

Earnhardt finished fourth, David Ragan was fifth followed by Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin — Busch’s teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing. Travis Kvapil, Dave Blaney and Burton rounded out the top 10. “I just made a huge mistake,” Sadler said. “I just went in too low into Turn 1. I was actually trying to give Tony more room and I just got loose under him and spun into him. I know he’s pretty mad at me, but nothing I did intentionally. I’ve never had any problems with him, and don’t want to start it tonight.”



MATTHEW

Anthony Fontanelle asked:


After winning only one out of the last four races going into the USG Sheetrock 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway, Chevrolet teams are looking to once again dominate the field. Although far from a dominating performance since four non-Chevy cars are in the top eight, a win is a win for Chevrolet teams.

Tony Stewart, driving the Number 20 Home Depot Monte Carlo SS, took the win for Chevrolet. His win at the USG Sheetrock is his first victory this season. The win also marked the former two-time champion’s 30th Cup career win and the second at the Chicagoland Speedway.

Aside from Stewart, five other Chevrolet drivers finished in the top ten after the race with two Ford and two Dodge drivers completing the list. Roush Fenway Racing’s Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards finished second and third respectively. Kenseth and Edwards are both driving Ford cars. Kevin Harvick, driving for Richard Childress Racing on board his Chevrolet Monte Carlo, finished fourth. Casey Mears rounded up the top five on-board his Number 25 National Guard/GMAC Monte Carlo SS.

Kurt Busch, on his Dodge Charger driving for Penske Racing, finished sixth. Seventh after the race was Jeff Burton on his Number 31 AT&T Monte Carlo SS for Richard Childress Racing. Ryan Newman driving for Penske Racing finished eighth. Hendrick Motorsports’ Jeff Gordon finished ninth and Clint Bowyer finished tenth onboard his Number O7 Jack Daniel’s Monte Carlo SS which is designed to go faster than road bound Chevy vehicles, even those equipped with Chevrolet pickup power tuning chip.

Stewart credited his car’s condition and his team’s performance for his win at the nineteenth race of the season. “It was good,” said Stewart of his car. “It was really good all day. The thing about here is you’ve got to have it so free on the front of a run to be good in the center and the end and we luckily, even with all those restarts, we never got a chance to get enough laps on the tires to really let us get tight enough. We were still just a little bit free there at the end….”

“It was good enough in clean air even though it was free to stay out front. We just kept wanting a long run. We didn’t want to see those cautions there at the end. Matt (Kenseth) was really good on restarts, I mean really, really good on restarts. I couldn’t make a mistake. If I made one mistake I was going to have a hard time explaining to these guys how I lost the race,” Steward added.

As for his team, the veteran driver has to say: “What won us the race is (crew chief Greg) Zippy (Zipadelli) and these guys - the pit crew - did an awesome job today. They kept us the track position at the end and that’s what we needed. Track position was so important to let us run our pace and run the line that we wanted to run without having to worry about getting in dirty air. Thanks to these guys around me, that’s what got us in Victory Lane again.”



JOEY

Gregg Hall asked:


The sports memorabilia genre is a large one including collectibles of all types. While some people will immediately think of football or baseball when thinking about sports collectibles, but the fact of the matter is that there are many more kinds of sports that have valuable collectibles.

To be valuable as collectibles, the vast majority must be kept in flawless condition. The more aged and less flawed an item is, the more it will be worth in the future. A lot of people will invest in memorabilia like this for the sake of their children and grandchildren and guard it as if it were invaluable. It is an honor to be given something of such importance and is a matter of personal pride for the person who originally got the item.

Sports memorabilia covers a wide range of topics, including everything from the conventional trading cards to things owned and even worn by the sports figure that became celebrated. One area that is overlooked many times as an area of interest is that of books. Many famous sports figures have written autobiographies about their lives, both private and public. Many books like this are considered valuable just because of the individual’s popularity with the public, even if they were known for being ruthless or rude. As a matter of fact sometimes this creates eve more interest. For example, Keshawn Johnson, the former NFL football player who is now a commentator for ESPN has a new book out called “Throw Me The Damned Ball”

NASCAR is an area of the sports collectible realm that has a diverse assortment of merchandise from toy cars to leather jackets and even furniture. My dad is a huge Jeff Gordon fan and he probably owns just about anything that is available featuring Jeff Gordon.

Certain product endorsements can also provide collectible items that are deemed valuable. Timex featured Barbara Ann Scott, a female skater and a Canadian. She won an Olympic victory in 1948. That motivated sales of thousands of dolls of her likeness. These days it seems almost any sports star of any reknown at all has dolls, coffee cups, watches, and any other imaginable item with there likeness on them.

Of course,one of the most distributed collectibles in the sports memorabilia world continues to be trading cards. It’s a fairly affordable way to get a child started with a baseball card collection or some other sports card collection. Even still it can become a high cost undertaking as the child grows to be an avid die-hard fan and learns to know the value of sports card collecting. A sports collection is something that might take many years to obtain and might never be thought complete. This kind of interest will help instruct the child about responsibility among other matters. They have to keep the cards away from curious friends who may not have learned the value of collecting and as well as greedy adults who may try to take advantage.



DARIUS