How many years has Jeff Gordon dedicated to racing? All you need to know

Former NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon is the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports. After debuting in 1992, he spent 23 years racing full-time in the Cup Series.

Gordon won four NASCAR Cup Series championships (1995, 1997, 1998, and 2001) in the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. He has 93 race wins in the series which puts him third on the all-time wins list. He also set a record for 797 consecutive starts.

However, before his successful career in stock car racing, Gordon started as a quarter midget racer at only five years old and won 35 races in two years. At 16, he earned a USAC license and won the USAC Midget title in 1990. The following year, he became the youngest to win the Silver Crown championship.

Gordon began his quarter-century center in NASCAR's Xfinity Series in 1990 and set a record with 11 poles in 1992. The California native helped make NASCAR popular after Richard Petty in the 1960s and Dale Earnhardt in the 1990s.

The 53-year-old retired from full-time racing in 2015 and became a TV analyst for FOX Sports before returning briefly in 2016 to fill in for Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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"After being in the series for 23 years, you share it with the people you care" - Jeff Gordon after final NASCAR Cup win

Jeff Gordon claimed his last win in the Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway in 2015. Gordon won nine times at the 0.5-mile short track in Virginia, which tied him with Jimmie Johnson for third in wins at the track.

"It’s never over here. What a battle...This has turned into a fairytale season...It means so much to have them (the children) here and Ingrid to experience these moments. That’s what I realize after being in the series for 23 years; you share it with the people you care about the most. We’re gonna give them something to think about. Don’t count us out. This team is fired up; we’ve got some momentum now," Jeff Gordon said (via USA Today).

Gordan later called this last win "the greatest moment" of his career.

"There's no other experience anywhere on the circuit that close to the fans and you get to feel the energy from the fans. It just seemed to me that day there were more than Gordon fans that were sticking around as a part of that moment. That really meant the world to me and still does. That will be the greatest victory and the greatest moment of my racing career," he said in 2023 (via fanbuzz.com).

After dedicating 23 years of his life to racing, Jeff Gordon took on the vice chairman role at Hendrick Motorsports, focused on competition and marketing.