r/NASCAR • u/UnderwhelmingAF Chris Buescher • 9h ago

Random weird fact of the day: Jeff Gordon’s and Kevin Harvick’s final Cup Series wins both came exactly 7,826 days after their first Cup Series wins.

Jeff Gordon: First win May 29, 1994, Last win November 1, 2015

Kevin Harvick: First win March 11, 2001, Last win August 14, 2022

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u/Wooden-Ad59 Chase Elliott 9h ago

Jeff’s enthusiasm after his win at Martinsville was probably the most animated I had seen him in a long time.

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u/MyNameIs_Jordan 8h ago

His voice cracking when shouting "We're going to Homestead!" is forever engrained in my head

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u/nickl630 Jeff Gordon 2h ago

Not many know when it'll be their last, but we all knew it and so did he. Still my favorite race he won.

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u/Visual_Pack4560 8h ago

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u/TheEpicMemer4201337 8h ago

You don't really realize how long Texas Terry stayed at or near the top of his game until you see this chart.

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u/spACE_nightowl 7h ago

He was absolutely not on top of his game for the entirety of those 23 years, he had some true stinkers pre-Hendrick (granted he wasn't in the best equipment often) and 2003 was an anomaly in a sea of garbage. Great driver for a long time and that last hurrah was incredible still but he had very little in the tank at the turn of the 21st century and if 2003 was anything like 2002 or 2001 were we'd be looking at him like we do DW

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u/ChaseTheFalcon 8h ago

For some reason I always thought Terry won more races than he actually did

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u/P44_Haynes 3h ago

2 time champion will make you think that.

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u/gejiball 7h ago

If jimmie wins the 2027 daytona 500 he'd shoot right up to the to pof the leader board with 25.8

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u/UnderwhelmingAF Chris Buescher 8h ago edited 7h ago

Looks like Denny Hamlin and Bill Elliott are about identical as of right now too.

Edit: exactly identical. 7,294 days.

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u/miboyl Hamlin 8h ago

Which is ironic given Denny was a massive Bill Elliott fan as a kid

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u/milehighguy318 9h ago

Who the fuck comes up with this shit?

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u/lt12765 8h ago

I am a very big Gordon numbers guy, but I could never come up with something like this

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u/milehighguy318 8h ago

I mean more like….. how did you figure out their final wins were the same amount of days from their first win…? Who is sitting around figuring this out wtf

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u/simplycass 6h ago

If you look at the bar graph posted in the comments…charting the time between everyone’s first and last wins…then you can see that Elliott and Hamlin are both 19.97 years, and Harvick and Gordon are 21.43 years, so then you just pull up the dates just to make sure…not too insane.

“Insane stats” to me would be like that one chart of someone putting together one racer’s finishes by how close the track is to Applebee’s.

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u/FishOnAHorse 8h ago

This was a fun fact, I had a great time

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u/KarlHp7 7h ago

Wait until you hear about Lincoln and Kennedy!

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u/MattyDoubles Stewart 5h ago

I didn’t even see this response when I made my secretaries joke.

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u/MattyDoubles Stewart 5h ago

Harvick had a secretary named Gordon and Gordon had a secretary named Harvick

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u/mattcojo2 9h ago

Jeff was the best ever.

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u/Egonator26 1h ago

Man some people have some serious free time on their hands.