{"id":1343508,"date":"2021-03-30T11:32:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1343508"},"modified":"2023-07-24T16:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:01:16","slug":"nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Legend Jeff Gordon Once Taught a Critical Reporter a Harsh Lesson Using Fake Tattoos, a Police Chase, and Pepsi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don't ever mess with <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/where-did-jeff-gordon-capture-his-most-nascar-cup-series-wins\/\">NASCAR legend<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/jeff-gordon\/\">Jeff Gordon<\/a>. Just ask Travis Okulski, a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/motorsports\/\">motorsports<\/a> reporter and the victim of Gordon's most ruthless prank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, Okulski ruined Gordon's fun when he revealed the driver's famous test-drive prank on a car salesman to be fake. Gordon didn't take too kindly to that. In a hilariously cruel act of revenge, he taught Okulski a harsh lesson with an even greater (and very real) prank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-reporter-travis-okulski-exposed-jeff-gordon-for-faking-a-prank\">Reporter Travis Okulski exposed Jeff Gordon for faking a prank<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/jeff-gordon-nascar-sponsor-pepsi\/\">Jeff Gordon teamed up with Pepsi Max<\/a> for a hysterical commercial. The former NASCAR driver dressed as a regular Joe and entered a car dealership for a test drive. He pretended to know nothing about cars when he stepped into the driver's seat of a black Chevrolet Camaro, struggling to get the vehicle out of its parking spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pepsi MAX \/ Camaro \/ Jeff Gordon Commercial - Test Drive\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZBB9jU5Syc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After sputtering forward for a few feet, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/jeff-gordon-final-championship-last-nascar-season-to-end-after-thanksgiving\/\">Gordon laid on the gas<\/a> and sped out of the parking lot like a menace. He did a few donuts before hopping on the road to speed up again. All the while, the car salesman was paralyzed in the passenger seat while yelling at Gordon to please slow down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a few more death-defying stunts, Gordon whipped the Camaro back to the lot and reveals himself to the unsuspecting salesman. The harmless prank made for a great advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Travis Okulski, a writer for Jalopnik.com at the time, just had to ruin Gordon's fun. The day after the commercial aired, Okulski posted an article with his findings that the prank was 100% fake. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/what-nascar-cup-series-season-most-different-winners\/\">Gordon<\/a> was never even driving the car in the video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, Gordon wasn't too happy that Okulski exposed his prank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-gordon-gets-revenge\">Jeff Gordon gets revenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost a year after the original prank aired, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/101-greatest-nascar-cup-series-drivers-by-car-number-20-29\/\">Gordon formulated<\/a> a plan to exact revenge on Okulski. He had a similar idea in mind, but this time it would all be 100% real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeff Gordon et Pepsi Max pr\u00e9sentent : &#039;Test Drive 2&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRLvMUYcap8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon first disguised himself as an ex-convict taxi driver. He had a fake tattoo printed on his neck and a fake goatee glued to his face. He even changed his voice so Okulski wouldn't recognize him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/how-many-drivers-have-won-nascar-all-star-race-cup-series-title-same-season\/\">Gordon<\/a> and his team orchestrated a plan to fly Okulski to Charlotte, N.C., to test drive a Corvette Z06 for his website. A taxi driver arrived at Okulski's hotel to bring him to the test drive. But it wasn't a taxi driver at all. It was Jeff Gordon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okulski hopped into the back seat. The two engaged in some playful banter as Gordon drove onto the road. Gordon told Okulski he had served 10 years in prison, which is exactly when a state trooper appeared and started flashing his lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon pulled off the road for the cop, but he had no intention of cooperating. After a few minutes, Gordon sped away from the policeman and kickstarted a high-speed chase. Gordon swerved in and out of an industrial brickyard as Okulski feared for his life in the back seat. The stressed reporter started kicking at the glass wall inside the car and attempted to call 911. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hitting chain fences and barrels to evade the state trooper, Gordon pulled into a garage filled with Pepsi Max. As confetti started to fall from the ceiling, Okulski knew he'd been duped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-okulski-later-admitted-this-prank-wasn-t-fake\">Okulski later admitted this prank wasn't fake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Top Jeff Gordon Career Highlights : Best of NASCAR\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CElfpHsTmJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Okulski may have found Gordon's first prank to be fabricated, but this one was as real as it gets. The reporter, now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/author\/13625\/travis-okulski\/\">Road &amp; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/author\/13625\/travis-okulski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Track<\/a> Editor-at-Large, later admitted Gordon got him good in a humorous article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I'm a bad passenger in a car, I always have been, but this is slightly different,&#8221; Okulski wrote for <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/how-jeff-gordon-scared-the-crap-out-of-me-1531016226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jalopnik<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/how-jeff-gordon-scared-the-crap-out-of-me-1531016226\">.com<\/a>. &#8220;See, I was just kidnapped by an ex-con in the back of a cab that is now speeding down a hill, busting through a chain fence, and narrowly missing buildings while trying to get away from a North Carolina State Trooper. I thought I was going to die. I yelled. I banged the glass. I actually tried to kick through the plexiglass window between the driver and me. I pulled out my phone to call 911, but couldn't keep it steady enough to dial...<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After what feels like forever (it was actually about 60 seconds), we do a couple donuts. I thought maybe he was going to let me out or was trying to make tire smoke to obfuscate his car. But then we pull into this garage at full speed and lock up the brakes. A garage full of Pepsi. And cameras. The driver runs around, and the first thing he says is, &#8220;I got you back! I'm Jeff Gordon.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note to self: Never get on Jeff Gordon's bad side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Gordon once played one of the most hilarious pranks in NASCAR history by making a reporter think he was in a police chase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":1575241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253795],"tags":[85151,118377],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NASCAR Legend Jeff Gordon Once Taught a Critical Reporter a Harsh Lesson Using Fake Tattoos, a Police Chase, and Pepsi - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jeff Gordon once played one of the most hilarious pranks in NASCAR history by making a reporter think he was in a police chase.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASCAR Legend Jeff Gordon Once Taught a Critical Reporter a Harsh Lesson Using Fake Tattoos, a Police Chase, and Pepsi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jeff Gordon once played one of the most hilarious pranks in NASCAR history by making a reporter think he was in a police chase.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-30T15:32:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-24T20:01:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Jeff-Gordon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"835\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jackdoc13\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/nascar-jeff-gordon-taught-reporter-harsh-lesson-fake-tattoos-police-chase-pepsi\/\",\"name\":\"NASCAR Legend Jeff Gordon Once Taught a Critical Reporter a Harsh Lesson Using Fake Tattoos, a Police Chase, and Pepsi - 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