Saturday, December 28, 2013

Jeff Gordon, report to your car


(NOTE: This is an excerpt from the book Then Junior Said to Jeff...)

JEFF GORDON (LEFT) AFTER ONE OF HIS 93 CUP WINS.


We were in the Benny Kahn infield pressroom at Daytona, with a very young Jeff Gordon sitting in a chair on the dais. He was sitting with his legs straight out, looking maybe 12 or 13 years old.

Suddenly, a stout voice came over the loud speaker: “Jeff Gordon, report to your car. Jeff Gordon, report to your car.”

Gordon sat up and said something like, “I’m sorry, guys. I gotta go. They’re calling for me.”

As Gordon walked between the tables of reporters toward the door, Darrell Waltrip strode in. DW, the next man on the program, had a broad grin, and it was obvious that he was the one who had called for Jeff to leave.

I always wondered if Jeff realized what Waltrip had pulled on him.


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