Five Vintage Race Cars You Can Buy For Vintage Frito Money
Five race cars you can buy for less than a bag of Fritos (well, vintage Jeff Gordon Fritos on eBay anyway:)
Five race cars you can buy for less than a bag of Fritos (well, vintage Jeff Gordon Fritos on eBay anyway:)
And that’s the way it happened. William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports’ 26-year-old driver of the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 racecar, brought his steed first to the double caution/checkered flags after 200 laps around Daytona International Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval.
Larson passes the first hurdle on his way to race “The Double” next year at Indy.
Racing the Indianapolis 500 is the dream of nearly every professional racecar driver.
The latest driver to succumb to the lures of racing – especially at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – is Jeff Gordon, the NASCAR star who is now working with team owner Rick Hendrick and intending to become his successor at Hendrick Motorsports.
Jeff Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports have worked together since the racer once known as “ wonder boy” joined the NASCAR Cup Series with a single race at Atlanta in 1992.
Not everyone gets to go back to their racing roots, but Jeff Gordon, a five-time winner at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Cup Series race, did just that on Thursday, June 17 on The Dirt Track at IMS.
The 1999 Daytona 500 was the 41st incarnation of this exciting event, and was memorable for winner Jeff Gordon’s three-wide pass.
Davey Allison, Jeff Gordon, Alan Kulwicki, Roger Penske and Jack Roush comprise the 10th Class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
The man, the myth, the legend isn’t calling it quits just yet.