Year-by-Year Career
This page goes through each year of Gordon's career, showing a picture that summarizes the year and statistics.
1992: Gordon had one start at the end of the season, finishing 31st after bing involved in a wreck.
1993: (Above, Gordon in his first DAYTONA 500, in which he stunned fans by finishing 5th) 1993 was Gordon's first full year in cup competition. He won rookie of the year honors and finished 14th in points.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points Earned | Point Standing | Earnings |
30 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 13.1 | 17.7 | 3,447 | 14th | $623,855 |
1994: Jeff Gordon had two big wins in 1994. The first was his first win in cup series competition at Lowe's Motor Speedway in the Coca Cola 600. The other, was in the first Brickyard 400(above) at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Gordon went on to finish 8th in the final standings.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
31 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 9.8 | 15.8 | 3,776 | 8th | $1,507,010 |
1995: Jeff Gordon earned his first career championship in 1995, having earned 7 wins and an average finish of tenth. Gordon became the youngest winner of a championship and the 2nd quickest winner to Dale Earnhardt, who won the championship in his sophomore season.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
31 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 3 | 5.0 | 9.5 | 4,614 | 1st | $4,347,343 |
1996: Jeff Gordon won ten races in 1996, but fell short of the championship to teammate Terry Labonte. You can blame 5 DNF's for that, and it stopped Gordon from getting back to back championships.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
31 | 10 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 6.3 | 9.5 | 4,620 | 2nd | $3,428,485 |
1997: Jeff Gordon won 10 races in 1997, but still barely won the championship in 1997, beating out Dale Jarrett by just 14 points, one of the closest championships in Nascar history.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
32 | 10 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 4,710 | 1st | $6,375,658 |
1998: Jeff Gordon won a modern era record 13 races in one season and easily cruised to the championship. He earned the most points ever before the introduction of the chase format.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
32 | 13 | 26 | 28 | 2 | 7.0 | 5.7 | 5,328 | 1st | $9,306,584 |
1999: For the first time in since his sophomore season, Jeff Gordon had 7 DNF's which brought his average finish to the lowest since his sophomore season. However, Gordon did win his second Daytona 500(above), and near the end of the season lost his crew chief Ray Evernham, who left Hendrick Motorsports to work with dodge to create new teams for dodge.
Starts | Wins | Top-5's | Top-10's | DNF's | Average Start | Average Finish | Points | Points Standing | Earnings |
34 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 7 | 7.4 | 12.9 | 4,620 | 6th | $5,858,633 |