Jeff Gordon : News

TEXAS VICTORY HAS ELUDED GORDON - SO FAR

FORT WORTH , Texas. (October 31, 2006) - Only three remain, and Texas Motor Speedway may be the toughest challenge for Jeff Gordon and the #24 Team.

Gordon, who is seventh in the standings, is 146 points behind leader Matt Kenseth with only races at Texas, Phoenix International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway remaining this season. Coincidentally, those three are the only tracks where Gordon has yet to visit Victory Lane in NASCAR's premier series.

Earlier this year, the four-time Cup Series champion captured his 75th career victory at Chicagoland Speedway - his first win at the 1.5-mile speedway. Gordon has now collected victories at a record 19 of the 22 tracks currently on the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup schedule. "This is a difficult race track," Gordon said. "It's very fast, the transitions in the corners are very abrupt and the walls come at you pretty fast. It's a track that challenges all of us, but one that I enjoy."

"I'm looking forward to this weekend's race, and having two races a year here will help us get our first win."

Even after finishing 22nd here earlier this year, Gordon is full of optimism heading into the Dickies 500.

"I've said from the beginning that this race was the one I was most concerned about performance-wise during the Chase," said Gordon.

"We don't have a good track record here recently, which gives us concern."

"But we've made a lot of changes with the car, the set-ups and the team, and our intermediate program has improved since we last visited Texas."

Which means this could be his last trip to Texas without a "W."

MEDIA INFORMATION:
Jesse Essex, Hendrick Motorsports
704-455-0527
jessex@hmsracing.com

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