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Jeff Gordon Triumphs in Backup Car After Weather Restart

10/9/2025

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NASCAR encouraged a restart after a weather incident, enabling Jeff Gordon to win in a backup car.
Gordon credited the HANS Device, invented in the 1980s, with saving his life in the 2001 Las Vegas crash; it is now in the Smithsonian.
In 2008, Gordon suffered another Las Vegas crash, hitting a retaining wall and damaging his car.

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Story summary

NASCAR encouraged a restart after a weather incident, enabling Jeff Gordon to win in a backup car.
Gordon credited the HANS Device, invented in the 1980s, with saving his life in the 2001 Las Vegas crash; it is now in the Smithsonian.
In 2008, Gordon suffered another Las Vegas crash, hitting a retaining wall and damaging his car.