Cecil Gordon (June 21, 1941 – September 19, 2012) was an American

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racing driver. A competitor in the

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between 1968 and 1985, he competed in 449 events without winning a race.

NASCAR

Career as driver

Gordon drove in the NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series for 17 years and drove in a total of 449 races. He never won and never got a pole, he did not even finish a race on the lead lap, but got 29 top fives and 111 top tens.Cecil Gordon's Driver's Statistics at racing-reference.info
/ref> 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.

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released a replica of 1969 Mercury Cyclone in 1992 and later in 1998 in honor of NASCAR's 50th anniversary.

Career as owner

Gordon started racing in

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and

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/ref> He had a few other racers make an occasional start for him. He raced GM products (mostly Chevrolet vehicles) until the end of 1982 when he crashed out his Buick Regal. He purchased a Chrysler Imperial at the beginning 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 the Imperial to

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. Gordon returned for one more race in 1985 for the family-owned team of

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Career as crewman

Following the end of his career as a driver and owner, Gordon worked for other racing teams as a crewman, first for

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, and then later for

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Personal life

Gordon is not related to four-time

champion

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, yet, coincidentally, they both drove the 24 car. Gordon, who was married with four children, Charlene (who died in 2006), Douglas, Stefanie and Jonathon. Gordon died on September 19, 2012, in

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Motorsports career results

NASCAR

( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Grand National Series

Winston Cup Series

=Daytona 500

References

External links

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