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Date of Birth
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04-August-1971
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Place of Birth
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Vallejo
(Solano County, California, San Francisco Bay Area, United States of America, Area code 707)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Jeffrey Michael Gordon, Wonder Boy, Rainbow Warrior, Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon, Jeffery Michael Gordon
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Profession
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Voice Actor, Race car driver, Actor
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Jeffery Michael "Jeff" Gordon is an American professional stock car racing driver. He drives the No. 24 Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
Gordon started his racing career in the Busch Series with Hugh Connerty Racing, followed by Bill Davis Racing, winning three races, and joined Hendrick Motorsports in 1993. From 1995 to 2001, he has been a four-time Sprint Cup champion, and has won the Daytona 500 three times. He is third on the all-time Cup wins list, with 88 career wins, and has the most wins in NASCAR's modern era. Gordon's 74 pole positions lead all active drivers, and is third all-time; Gordon won at least one pole in 21 consecutive seasons, a NASCAR record. He is also the active iron man leader for consecutive races participated in with 725 as of the 2013 Ford EcoBoost 400. In 2009, Gordon became the first NASCAR driver to reach $100 million USD in career winnings.
In 1998, NASCAR named Gordon to its 50 Greatest Drivers list. Ten years later, in 2008, Terry Blount of ESPN ranked him tenth in the 25 greatest drivers of all-time. Fox Sports named Gordon as the fifth-best NASCAR driver of all time.
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