Just in Time for Mother’s Day
Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion; three-time Daytona 500 winner; five-time Brickyard 400 winner, Jeff Gordon https://jeffgordon.com shared his #NASCAR Story through his own words and photos. After completing his final season as a NASCAR http://www.nascar.com Cup Series driver in 2015, Gordon joined the FOX Sports team as a broadcast analyst for their NASCAR Cup Series coverage.
As you can see in these childhood photos, racing started at a very early age. Jeff was five when he began running laps at a makeshift racetrack in Vallejo, California, that he and his stepfather John Bickford converted from a fairground. Inspired at an early age by John to be the best he could be in everything he did, Jeff embraced racing with a natural talent and true humility.
John and Carol Bickford tried to stay on Jeff about his grades, but Carol never had an objection to the racing or the hectic schedule. “I loved it,” she says. “And you know why I loved it? Because we were doing it as a family.”
It became such a family project that at one point in 1978, they purchased a quarter midget for Carol so she could serve as a challenger for Jeff when he practiced passing and restarts.
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