Jeff was born August 4, 1971 in Vallejo, California. When he was about a year old, he, his older sister, and his mother went to a race at Vallejo Speedway with John Bickford. Jeff's stepfather took him under his "racing wing" and bought him a BMX bicycle and then a Quarter Midget racecar when he was 5.
Jeff couldn't seem to get enough of it, by the time he was 8 Jeff had won his first Quarter Midget championship. Two more followed, and by the early 1980s, Jeff and also won four class championships in Go-Karts. Jeff took to the quarter midget cars like he was born to race. He was winning races before he could read or write. Jeff ran quarter-midget races every weekend somewhere in the U.S.
Jeff was winning so frequently in quarter midgets that at age 9, he was beating drivers 17 and older. On and on he went, usually racing on dirt and always moving to a higher level of success. Today Jeff Gordon is a world-class racer, and has run many competitions.
Brooke Gordon (Jeff's Wife) was Miss Winston of 1993, she visited victory lane with the winning drivers during that first season. They met several times throughout the 1993 season, during which they fell in love.
