Why Hasn’t Jeff Gordon Challenged for Sprint Cup Series Titles in Recent Years?

What happened to the Jeff Gordon of old?Whatever happened to the hotshot "Rainbow Warrior" of the '90s and early '00s, the three-time Daytona 500 winner and four-time Sprint Cup champion? What happened to the babyfaced prodigy who once toasted Dale Earnhardt with a champagne glass full of milk at the end-of-season awards banquet?Once upon a time in the faraway land of 1998, Gordon, piloting a rainbow-hued Chevrolet, dominated by winning 13 races during the season. What else makes this notable was that he had posted back-to-back 10 win seasons.Gordon wasn't even a decade into his career and already he was at his peak.Yet following his championship in 2001, things just seemed to go south. Granted, a three-win season followed by a top-5 in poi...

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