Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon will retire for a weekend to compete in the North American Porsche Carrera Cup race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which will be held over Labor Day weekend.
Gordon, who retired from NASCAR racing full-time after the 2015 season, will reunite with longtime team leader Ray Evernham, marking the first time the duo have raced together since 1999, Porsche said in a press release. In Cup Series competition, they won three championships and 47 races (out of Gordon’s 93 career total) together.
Gordon said in a statement: “I look forward to getting back into a racing car and competing with a talented team and drivers. “It would be a fun way to spend the weekend and make some new memories.”
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car 2021
Carrera Cup is a series of specifications using Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, which acts as a support chain for IMSA motorsport in North America. A list of more than 30 cars is lined up for Indy, where drivers will cover the 2.4-mile, 14-turn Speedway. Gordon will perform his signature number 24 for the race.
This is not the first time Gordon has entered motorsport. He won a 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona on his second try, driving a Cadillac Prototype DPi-VR. He’s only the fourth driver to win both the Daytona 24-hour and Daytona 500 races, with three NASCAR season opener wins to his credit.
A five-time Brickyard 400 record winner on the Indy oval, Gordon first tried his hand at the road in 2003 when he swapped cars with Formula 1 star Juan Pablo Montoya for a Colombian Williams-BMW for a test drive. .
