Last week on Showtime’s “Inside NASCAR” program, analyst Brad Daugherty suggested that the success of Jimmie Johnson has made Jeff Gordon “almost become irrelevant.”
Has Jimmie Johnson Made Jeff Gordon ‘Irrelevant?’
↵Well, Jenna Fryer of the Associated Press challenges that notion in her “Fryer’s Five” on Yahoo.com:
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↵Gordon, like Johnson, is a four-time champion. Only five others have more than his 82 victories, and his $111 million in career earnings are a NASCAR record. Nothing Gordon does is irrelevant…
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↵Fryer went to Gordon and asked about the comment, expecting some sort of outrage or at least a sign that he had taken offense to Daugherty’s words. But as it turns out, Gordon actually agreed with Daugherty. Said Gordon:
↵↵I would say me and 41 other guys out there, absolutely. When somebody dominates the sport like that, he’s taken a majority of the guys out of the picture.
↵↵Go figure.
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