- Cecil Gordon
Infobox NASCAR driver
Name = Cecil Gordon
Birthdate = birth date and age|1941|6|20
Birthplace = flagicon|USAHorse Shoe, North Carolina
Best_Cup_Pos = 3rd - 1971, 1973 (Winston Cup)
Cup_Top_Tens = 111
First_Cup_Race = 1968Pickens 200 (Greenville-Pickens Speedway )
Last_Cup_Race = 1985Miller High Life 400 (Richmond)
Years_In_Cup = 17
Total_Cup_Races = 450Cecil Gordon (born
June 21 ,1941 inHorse Shoe, North Carolina ) was aNASCAR driver. He is not related toSprint Cup driverJeff Gordon .He began in the Grand National (now
Sprint Cup ) series in 1968 and raced until 1985.NASCAR driving career
He drove for 17 years and drove in a total of 450 races. He never won and never got a pole, but got 25 top fives, 111 top tens. He finished third in points in 1971 and 1973. He completed 112,908 laps and only led 23 of them. By the end of his career, he had earned $940,000. His average finish for his entire career was 17.3.
NASCAR car owner
He started racing in
Henley Gray andBill Seifert cars. He generally raced in his own car beginning in 1970. He had a few other racers make an occasional start for him. He raced GM products (mostly Chevy's) until the end of 1982 when he crashed out his Buick Regal. He purchased a Chrysler Imperial at the beginging of 1983 from the defunct Negre Bros. Racing team and managed to qualify for eight races during that season, though he only finished five of them. His best finish was 15th that year in the Imperial. He also had Jim VanDiver drive the car in two races. At the end of that year he sold off the Imperial and drove a few races for other owners in 1984 and 1985.References
* [http://www.racing-reference.info/driver?id=gordoce01 Cecil Gordon's Driver's Statistics at racing-reference.info]
* [http://www.racing-reference.info/owner?id=gordoce01 Cecil Gordon's Owner's Statistics at racing-reference.info]
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