Jeff Gordon is not a man who takes well to retirement, apparently. That’s not a surprise at all, given that we’ve been
talking about his return to racing since almost the minute he retired in the first place. This year, he’s taken the wheel for
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., who is recovering from a concussion, several times already. So we shouldn’t be too surprised to find out he’s officially coming out of retirement – the twist is that it won’t be in a stock car.
Gordon has signed onto Wayne Taylor Racing,
Motorsport.com reports, and he’ll join Ricky and Jordan Taylor as well as Max Angelelli. Their ride will be the newly-revealed Cadillac DPi-V.R racer, a Dallara-chassis car powered by a 6.2-liter pushrod V8 loosely related, Cadillac claims, to the engine in the current CTS-V. You can read all about the
DPi-V.R right over here.
Remember, Gordon has a total of 93 NASCAR wins to his name, as well as four titles. He knows his way around Daytona pretty well, too, having won the 500 three times. He’s also dabbled in endurance racing once before, in the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona with Taylor, Angelelli and Jan Magnussen in a WTR Riley-Pontiac car. They ended up on the podium, so you can say Gordon’s inaugural and only outing in endurance racing so far was a success. It’s been a decade, so we’ll see if he’s rusty, although knowing about how competitive champions are, we think he’ll blow out the cobwebs and get right down to work.
You can read Gordon’s statement
over at his personal site.
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