Jeff Gordon’s Hall of Fame NASCAR career was filled with four series championships and 93 wins but only one kicked off a new era for a very iconic race track.
It’s been three decades since the groundbreaking – and some might still say controversial – move to run NASCAR’s premier series on the open-wheel hallowed ground of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. When NASCAR first ran at the 2.5-mile IMS oval in 1994 it was the first race held at the speedway other than the Indianapolis 500 since 1916.
“As for the race, it was just kind of bigger than life and it was just awesome to be a part of it and I had no had no idea that we were actually going to go there and be that competitive and then win the race,” he said. “So, it certainly changed my life forever and set the whole No. 24 Hendrick team on this kind of amazing journey. The rest is history as far as. my career. I felt like that year, 1994, catapulted it and it was great too for the sport just to see.
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