JG Motorsports
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JG Motorsports was a NASCAR Busch Series race team co-owned by Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick, which attempted 20 races in the year 2000.
The team evolved from Gordon/Evernham Motorsports which ran six races in the Busch Series in 1999.
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[edit] History
[edit] Gordon/Evernham Motorsports 1999
In 1999 Brooke Gordon (then wife of Jeff Gordon) and Ray Evernham formed Gordon/Evernham Motorsports (GEM) to compete in that year's NASCAR Busch Series. The team's Pepsi-sponsored cars ran six races with Jeff Gordon as driver and Evernham as crew chief. DuPont sponsored the #24 car in two races in 1999 with driver Ricky Hendrick and Evernham on the box.
Due to offers from Dodge, Evernham sold his half of GEM to Rick Hendrick at the end of the year
[edit] JG Motorsports 2000
The GEM cars competed in the 2000 NASCAR Busch Series under the title "JG Motorsports". The team was jointly owned by Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick and attempted 20 races in the year. The team ran sixteen races with Ricky Hendrick as driver and did not qualify for five of the sixteen. Pepsi stayed as sponsor for the five races Gordon drove and GMAC came on as sponsor for the races Ricky Hendrick drove.
In 2002 the JG Motorsports Busch team was merged into Hendrick Motorsports and became the #48 car in the Cup series driven by Jimmie Johnson. In NASCAR 09 for PS2, this team was mentioned as the #5 car in the Nationwide Series.
[edit] Race statistics
| The 1999 Busch season for GEM | |||||
| driver | sponsor | race | location | qualified | result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi | Sam's Town 300 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | 2 | 4 |
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi | Coca-Cola 300 | Texas Motor Speedway | 4 | 13 |
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi/Star Wars Episode I | Carquest Auto Parts 300 | Lowe's Motor Speedway | 5 | 33 |
| Ricky Hendrick | Dupont | Myrtle Beach 250 | Myrtle Beach Speedway | 5 | 20 |
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi | NAPA 200 | Michigan International Speedway | 4 | 2 |
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi | All Pro Bumper to Bumper 300 | Lowe's Motor Speedway | 2 | 2 |
| Ricky Hendrick | Dupont | Kmart 200 | North Carolina Speedway | 33 | 37 |
| Jeff Gordon | Pepsi | Outback Steakhouse 200 | Phoenix International Raceway | cancelled | 1 |
