{"id":867971,"date":"2026-08-23T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867971\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T00:20:10","slug":"nascar-legend-jeff-gordon-wins-iroc-street-race-in-washington-d-c-at-55-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867971\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Legend Jeff Gordon Wins IROC Street Race in Washington, D.C. at 55 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon has won an individual race for the first time in 11 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Gordon claimed two first-place finishes Saturday as the International Race of Champions returned to Washington, D.C. ahead of the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The 55-year-old drove both 10-lap races around the National Mall in a No. 24 car <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/general\/news\/jeff-gordon-sweeps-iroc-races-in-washington-dc\/10848440\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">owned<\/a> by Rick Hendrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Gordon&#8217;s last individual first-place <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racing-reference.info\/rquery?id=gordoje01&amp;trk=t0&amp;series=W\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">victory<\/a> took place in 2015 with a Cup Series win at Martinsville Speedway. He <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/racing\/nascar\/a1861831\/nascar-champion-jeff-gordon-retire-after-2015-season\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">retired<\/a> from full-time racing following the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">He returned to the top of the podium Saturday after passing Helio Castroneves to take the lead in the first race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">He overtook Castroneves and\u00a0Tony Kanaan\u00a0in the second race to sweep the day. Fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Kurt Busch finished the competition in second place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">This marked the first street race for Gordon, who retired as NASCAR&#8217;s all-time <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/story\/sports\/pro\/2015\/08\/07\/nascar-king-road-jeff-gordon\/10531344007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">leader<\/a> in road course wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The IROC event preceded the IndyCar Freedom 250, which is set to take place on the National Mall later Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon has won an individual race for the first time in 11 years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-867971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}