OT: Jeff Gordon retiring after 2015 NASCAR season
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pepsicock
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He is the only one I pulled for day one when he started . What ticked him off was Brad Keselowski last November . Gordon has had enough of the young drivers acting like stupid on the race track. Gordon is worth well over 100 million dollars. He don't need the money that bad to get killed on the track. I don't blame him to enjoy life and chill out with his hot wife and two kids .
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/videos/2014/11/2/sprint-cup-series-texas-motor-speedway-gordon-spins-after-keselowski-contact.html
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/videos/2014/11/2/sprint-cup-series-texas-motor-speedway-gordon-spins-after-keselowski-contact.html
He's been my driver since 1993...I knew it was coming soon but always remember him saying he would not hang around and grow old in the car. NASCAR will be losing one the last few old school drivers.
Reminds me of this song by Tim Wilson about Jeff Gordon. It was done in good fun, and it is really just making fun of Gordon's detractors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1w7Fh7VNto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1w7Fh7VNto
He was the only racer my brother and I pulled for. He's the only driver left of when NASCAR was actually fun to watch. Hate to see him go though. It'd be awesome to get the championship on his way out.
I don't blame him. Nascar changes the rules about as often as Gordon changes tires. Plus, Nascar is now nothing but a bunch of punk kids who think they're tough. I think everyone saw how bad the new "chase" format is this past year.
pepsicock
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+1 NASCAR changed their points system about a decade ago to create more excitement since guys would be running away with the title late in the season. These changes cost Gordon 3 titles, including last season. There is a website that keeps track of the points under the old system. Gordon will retire with the 3rd most wins in series history, the most top 2's, but unfortunately only 4 championships instead of 7.
Great driver. Nascar legend. But I wish he would have gone another direction with his retirement. Just enjoy that one last year without setting up the year long goodbye party that no doubt will get old real quick. I have the certainty that we will be all sick of the tributes each race track will be compelled to give, the endless interviews, the endless mentions during each telecast, by about Easter. Of course it will just double in intensity the second half of the season. Just get out of the car at Miami next year and say, I quit. Walk off into the sunset and enjoy your kids, and your millions.
pepsicock
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Re: Oh, dear... who will some of the race fans hate now?? ;-) **
Re: Oh, dear... who will some of the race fans hate now?? ;-) **
That's easy . Kurt Bush !
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/kurt-busch-testifies-his-ex-girlfriend-is-a-trained-assassin-011719854.html
Respectfully disagree. He's top 5 all time. He deserves every bit of the tributes, mentions, accolades, etc.
He has earned his due in the sport. That is obvious. But setting up his retirement tour a year in advance is more about ego than anything else. About the same as some kid calling a presser to announce they are coming back to school as opposed to going pro. He is retiring. That's fine. But we will all be nauseated to no end by the time it is over late next year. But maybe it is Nascars idea. They surely need anything they can come up with to keep the spirt from slipping.
I hope he gets the applause and admiration that he deserves, maybe even the Earnhardt fans will be cheering him at least this one time. He really should have won the championship last year, would have been nice to have won it and to have walked away.
One of the more respectful drivers to. I always loved Jeff even though he's Calli. If somebody ever had a problem with him, he got it worked out or tried to. He wanted to win like everybody else. But you have to have a rapport with your peers. Guys today..it's like wrestlin. Who's that dumb Pollock who thinks he's God?
I was in Daytona one year for the Daytona 500. My parents and I were waiting to eat at the chart house, a nice restaurant at a marina down there. While we were waiting, we were checking out the yachts. We noticed this one docked right at the restaurant with some guys drinking beer on the back. It was rick Hendrick, Ricky Hendrick, and some of their sponsors. One guy gets up wearing a black leather jacket and walks off the boat , it was Jeff Gordon. He stopped and talked to us for about 10 minutes, and we never said a word about racing. Very polite guy
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Not a NASCAR fan but probably should be since my cousin is
Cale Yarborough. My family claim to fame.
By the way, and don't laugh, I just read a book that some of you might enjoy by Sharon McCrumb called St Dale. It takes a group of Dale Earnhardt fans on a tour of his wins a year or so after his death. Fiction, yes, but I learned a lot in it and found NASCAR to be more fascinating and more of a true skill than I ever thought. Very well researched.
Worth a read if you were... or even were not... a Dale fan but only a NASCAR fan.
I read another of hers too called King's Mountain which was a
fictional, yet again well-researched, story of the Battle of King's
Mountain, which is near where my mother's family lives in Clover. Always went
there and threw a rock on Ferguson's cairn... because my mother told me
to.
GOCOCKS! BEATTAM! BEATLSU!
Cale Yarborough. My family claim to fame.
By the way, and don't laugh, I just read a book that some of you might enjoy by Sharon McCrumb called St Dale. It takes a group of Dale Earnhardt fans on a tour of his wins a year or so after his death. Fiction, yes, but I learned a lot in it and found NASCAR to be more fascinating and more of a true skill than I ever thought. Very well researched.
Worth a read if you were... or even were not... a Dale fan but only a NASCAR fan.
I read another of hers too called King's Mountain which was a
fictional, yet again well-researched, story of the Battle of King's
Mountain, which is near where my mother's family lives in Clover. Always went
there and threw a rock on Ferguson's cairn... because my mother told me
to.
GOCOCKS! BEATTAM! BEATLSU!
Re: Not a NASCAR fan but probably should be since my cousin is
Nice!- yeah Fergie overstayed his welcome to say the least! Earnhardt would be proud!!Originally posted by chick75:
Cale Yarborough. My family claim to fame.
By the way, and don't laugh, I just read a book that some of you might enjoy by Sharon McCrumb called St Dale. It takes a group of Dale Earnhardt fans on a tour of his wins a year or so after his death. Fiction, yes, but I learned a lot in it and found NASCAR to be more fascinating and more of a true skill than I ever thought. Very well researched.
Worth a read if you were... or even were not... a Dale fan but only a NASCAR fan.
I read another of hers too called King's Mountain which was a
fictional, yet again well-researched, story of the Battle of King's
Mountain, which is near where my mother's family lives in Clover. Always went
there and threw a rock on Ferguson's cairn... because my mother told me
to.
GOCOCKS! BEATTAM! BEATLSU!
