{"id":1544029,"date":"2022-12-29T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1544029"},"modified":"2022-12-29T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:17:30","slug":"where-did-jeff-gordon-capture-his-most-nascar-cup-series-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/where-did-jeff-gordon-capture-his-most-nascar-cup-series-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Jeff Gordon Capture His Most NASCAR Cup Series Wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One does not become a NASCAR<\/a> Hall of Famer by mastering just one track. Jeff Gordon<\/a> won five or more times at 11 Cup Series tracks. However, there was one in particular where Gordon truly shined in the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Gordon won a career-best nine times at Martinsville<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jeff Gordon looks on in the garage during practice for the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 22, 2012. | Todd Warshaw\/Getty Images for NASCAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nine drivers in Cup Series history have won at least five times at Martinsville Speedway<\/a>, the 0.526-mile Virginia track that has been part of NASCAR since Red Byron won there in 1949 against a modest field of 14 other drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, Martinsville became a near-automatic paycheck for Richard Petty, who won 15 of his 200 races there. However, many others have found the legendary short track to be a home away from home, and they include some of the greatest names in the sport, like Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt, and Darrell Waltrip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years after Denny Hamlin retires, thus clearing the waiting period for consideration by voters, all nine men with five or more wins at Martinsville<\/a> will have been elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among them is Jeff Gordon, who raced from 1992-2016. Gordon won at Martinsville nine times over a 22-year span, making it the winningest track for the man who left the sport with an impressive 93 victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon\u2019s most memorable season at Martinsville had to be 2005, even though that was the only time aside from his rookie year when he did not finish in the top 10 in points. He swept his two visits there despite qualifying 16th<\/sup> in the spring and 15th<\/sup> in the fall. Those were his only Martinsville wins that started from outside the top 10, yet Gordon managed to foil Tony Stewart, who led a combined 530 of a possible 1,000 laps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Gordon\u2019s Martinsville numbers were simply amazing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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