Hence, there is no information about his salary. Jeff often used to be a topic of rumors relating his first divorce and several previous relationships. Jeff Gordon was married to Ingrid Vandebosch on November 7, , and the couple has already welcomed two children, Ella Sofia in , and Leo Benjamin in Previously, Jeff married to Brooke Sealey on November 26, , but the couple divorced in the year Also, he was in a relationship with Amanda Church from to with Deanna Merryman in He has a height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs is 68Kg.
He has brown hair and blue eyes. He has around 1M followers on Facebook, about 1. Also, read How old is Jeff Austin? Alisha Grey Updated On September 23, Gordon was introduced to Ingrid Vandebosch during a dinner party at The Hamptons by a mutual friend in , but they did not begin dating until Gordon announced their engagement on June 24, , at a croquet event at Meadowood Resort in St.
Helena, California. According to Gordon, they had kept the engagement secret for the following 30 days. Gordon and Vandebosch were married in a small, private ceremony in Mexico on November 7, Gordon had Scott Pruett assigned as a standby driver for Watkins Glen because his wife was due to give birth the weekend of August 8, In , Gordon established the Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation to help support children facing life-threatening and chronic illnesses.
The season began with Gordon claiming his third Daytona victory, followed by a win at Martinsville in the Advance Auto Parts and at Talladega.
However, inconsistency would plague him throughout the year. Despite having 14 top tens, he failed to finish nine times. A late season charge put him in position to qualify for the Chase, but in the last race before the Chase at Richmond, Gordon made contact with the turn 2 wall and failed to qualify for the Chase. Loomis left the team on September 14, and Steve Letarte, Gordon's car chief, took over for the Chase-opening race at Loudon.
Gordon eventually won at Martinsville in the Subway It was Gordon's first time outside the top ten in the point standings since Gordon also finished the season with a career-low eight top-five finishes.
However, Gordon declined, stating that there are "just too many steps" to reach F1. On Gordon's first lap, he went off-course, and recorded a time of ; in comparison, the United States Grand Prix's pole time was , while the slowest was On his second run, Gordon began with a standing start, and on his next lap recorded Despite the success, the points reset by the newly formed Chase for the Cup erased Gordon's point lead over Johnson.
As a result, at the end of the season, he finished the season third in the points standings behind champion Kurt Busch by 16 points and Johnson by eight. Had the Chase not existed, and assuming the finishing spots remained the same, Gordon would have won the championship by 47 points. Afterwards, Gordon defeated Johnson by one sixteen-hundredth of a second.
In the ROC's first round, Gordon In the semi-finals, Gordon He was slated to run it again in against seven-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher but was sidelined by the flu, and Casey Mears took his place.
The season saw Gordon enter his first campaign with Petty Enterprises' Robbie Loomis as his crew chief. With Loomis, Gordon recorded his first win of the season in the spring Talladega race, giving him his 50th career victory. He went on to win races at Sears Point and Richmond. Gordon finished the season ninth in points.
The co-owned team received a full sponsorship from Pepsi and ran six races with Gordon as driver and Evernham as crew chief. In two seasons, Gordon won twice, in at the Outback Steakhouse , the inaugural race at Phoenix, and at Homestead. Gordon began the season with his second Daytona win. Before the race at Martinsville, Evernham left Hendrick to form Evernham Motorsports, and he was replaced by team engineer Brian Whitesell. With Whitesell, Gordon won at Martinsville and Lowe's.
During the year, Chip Ganassi Racing owner Chip Ganassi contacted Gordon, expressing interest in signing him, while Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wanted to partner with him to form a team. However, Gordon signed a lifetime contract with Hendrick Motorsports starting in , which allowed him to become an equity owner in his No. Gordon, along with Rick Hendrick, co-owns the No. Gordon also has an equity stake in the No. Gordon owns JG Motorsports to manage licensing, and the company received up to 20 percent of Gordon-licensed products.
In , PepsiCo introduced Jeff Gordon 24 Energy, an orange tangerine-flavored energy drink, which has since been discontinued. Gordon won consecutive Winston Cup titles in and In , he won his first Daytona , becoming the youngest driver at the time to win the race. He won the second race of the season at Rockingham the following week, followed by a third win at Bristol; after a last-lap battle with Rusty Wallace.
At Charlotte, Gordon won The Winston in a Jurassic Park scheme; the car was modified by Evernham with assistance from Hendrick chassis engineer Rex Stump, and after the race it was banned following complaints from other team owners. Afterwards, he won the Coca-Cola , and after winning the Southern at Darlington, became the first driver since Bill Elliott in to win the Winston Million. He clinched his third title with a point lead over Mark Martin.
Gordon set Winston Cup records during the season, including four consecutive wins and 17 consecutive top-five finishes.
He ended the season with seven poles, 25 top-five, and 27 top-tens. He finished second to his teammate Terry Labonte for the championship, losing by 37 points. In , Gordon won his first Winston Cup Series championship. Despite a rough start to the season in the Daytona , he won three of the following six races at Rockingham, Atlanta and Bristol, while winning the pole at Rockingham, Richmond, Darlington and North Wilkesboro in that timespan.
The results during the season gave him a point lead over Dale Earnhardt en route to the title. The team's consistency was much better as well, having had three DNF's in , compared to 21 in his previous two seasons combined.
Gordon ran in the International Race of Champions from to Gordon won one race at Daytona International Speedway in In the race, Gordon led only two laps, but was the race leader by lap Despite being invited for the season, Gordon declined due to time constraints.
In , Gordon won the Busch Clash exhibition race at Daytona. In May, Gordon won the pole for the Coca-Cola , and won the race after electing to take two tires on a green flag pit stop. Three months later, he scored a hometown victory at the inaugural Brickyard , capitalizing on Ernie Irvan's tire going down late in the race.
Gordon met Brooke Sealey, a Miss Winston Cup model, in victory lane at Daytona International Speedway after he won the first of two qualifying races for the Daytona The pair began dating in secret due to an unwritten rule prohibiting drivers from dating the models. Prior to the Daytona , a year to the day from their encounter in victory lane, Gordon reserved a banquet hall at a French restaurant in Daytona Beach, where Gordon proposed to Sealey. The couple were married on November 26, They owned a home on Lake Norman in North Carolina, but evacuated permanently due to fan intrusions.
The couple then moved to Highland Beach, Florida. In March , Sealey sued for divorce after alleging Gordon of marital misconduct, and Gordon eventually counter-sued. Gordon's wife, who also went by the name Jennifer Brooke Gordon, cited her husband's relationship with professional model Deanna Merryman in her divorce papers with the racecar driver.
The divorce was finalized on June 13, During the year, Gordon was seen with model Amanda Church on a beach in St. Bart's, and later moved in with her in New York City. He is a four-time Winston Cup champion, having won the title in , , , and He also won the Daytona three times in , , and Gordon's 81 pole positions led all active drivers and is third all-time; Gordon won at least one pole in 23 consecutive seasons, making this a NASCAR record.
He was also the active "iron man" leader for consecutive races participated in with through the season. Gordon co-drove the No. Gordon raced in the endurance classic for the first time since when he finished third for Wayne Taylor Racing.
In the same year, he was presented with the Heisman Humanitarian Award, which recognizes athletes who make substantial contributions to their communities and improve the lives of others. Gordon is 50 years old as of He celebrates his birthday on 4 August every year. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. When Gordon was six months old, his biological mother and father split. In the s, his stepfather, John Bickford, married his mother.
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