Sonoma – Jeff Gordon
- Wins: 5
- Top 5’s: 14
- Top 10’s: 18
- Laps Led: 457
- Poles: 5
Throughout his 23-year career, Jeff Gordon defined road course racing. During a time when it was not as popular in NASCAR, Gordon brought road racing to life and helped it to become the spectacle that it is today.
Sonoma Raceway just so happened to be Gordon’s favorite. He has the most wins, top-5’s, top-10’s, starts, poles, laps completed and laps led in NASCAR history and he finished his career with the highest active average finish at 8.3.
He won a race three out of the five times that he won a pole there and whenever he won a pole, he had some of his best races, leading at least 32 laps. The most dominant race ever at the track was from Gordon and it happened on a day where he led 92 out of the 110 total laps, something very hard to do on a road course.
Maybe it was because Sonoma was in the same state as Gordon’s hometown, Vallejo, or maybe it was just because Gordon was that good at a different type of track. Overall, he truly owned road course racing, especially in Wine Country.
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