NASCAR: Jeff Gordon’s Five Most Significant Wins

No. 4: 1994 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte

Significance: First career Sprint Cup (then Winston Cup) Series win

Any future hall-of-fame driver such as Gordon will always remember their first win, and Jeff is no different. As the Coca-Cola 600 sometimes does, it produced another first-time winner in 1994. Little did fans know that they were witnessing the start of history from the driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr. would call “boy wonder.”

Jeff started from the pole and led only 16 laps that day, but they were the 16 that counted. The race was dominated by Rusty Wallace and Geoff Bodine leading a combined 288 laps, both driving Fords. In fact, Dale Jarrett was the only other Chevrolet (Joe Gibbs Racing) to lead laps that day with nine.

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