{"id":12779,"date":"2014-04-16T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=12779"},"modified":"2022-07-18T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T02:11:48","slug":"jeff-gordons-daughter-gets-behind-wheel-of-quarter-midget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2014\/04\/16\/jeff-gordons-daughter-gets-behind-wheel-of-quarter-midget\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gordon&#8217;s daughter to drive a quarter midget"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12780\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12780\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1.jpg\" alt=\"via @JeffGordonWeb\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-418x418.jpg 418w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-32x32.jpg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon1-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via @JeffGordonWeb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First there was Wonder Boy, now could there be Wonder Girl? The daughter of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon is starting to run quarter midgets.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 6-year-old Ella Gordon got behind the wheel of a quarter midget for the first time and naturally mom and four-time Cup Series champion dad were there to share photos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12788\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon.jpg\" alt=\"ellagordon\" width=\"955\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon.jpg 955w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon-594x334.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2014\/04\/ellagordon-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plan is for Ella to race in quarter midget cars this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Here she go&#8217;s @Ellagordon24 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/WTs4ZPTcxm\">pic.twitter.com\/WTs4ZPTcxm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ingrid Vandebosch (@ivandebosch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivandebosch\/statuses\/455908314564808704\">April 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As for Jeff Gordon, he finds himself backing off of those comments which suggested he could retire at the end of the season should he win the Cup Series championship. Gordon recently suggested to Larry King that he could race another ten years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=_pju1df3jh8pvydfyv9s5a&amp;partner=oratv&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Fwatch%2F619624\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s funny how life serves these things up,&#8221; Gordon said. &#8220;You go through a time where you go through a frustrating year, or I had some back and health issues. And I said, &#8216;You know, I don&#8217;t know how much longer I&#8217;m going to be able to do this at this level or if I event want to.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then you all of the sudden have this amazing year, and you go, &#8216;God, I love racing. Racing&#8217;s amazing. I can&#8217;t wait to do it for another 10 years.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon currently leads the Cup Series point standings but does not have a win which would all but guarantee him a spot in the Chase, NASCAR&#8217;s version of a playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First there was Wonder Boy, now could there be Wonder Girl? The daughter of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon is starting to run quarter midgets. On Monday, 6-year-old Ella Gordon got behind the wheel of a quarter midget for the first time and naturally mom and four-time Cup Series champion dad were there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,788],"tags":[304,708],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-12779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar-topstory","8":"category-news","9":"tag-jeff-gordon","10":"tag-nascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}