2011 NASCAR race car driven by Jeff Gordon is for sale.

Posted on October 15, 2022
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2011 NASCAR race car driven by Jeff Gordon is for sale.

Unless it is the NASCAR Cup Series race car driven by four-time champion Jeff Gordon, the 2011 Chevrolet Impala will not attract collectors' attention.

Miami-based Speedart Motorsports is selling the Hendrick Motorsports chassis 678 that Gordon drove in the 2011 Cup Series (then called the Sprint Cup), according to Speedart, The chassis was recently refurbished to race-ready condition and has an asking price of $165,000.

The 2011 car was built to NASCAR's fifth-generation Cup Series design, which debuted in the 2008 season and was known as the "Car of Tomorrow." This design was replaced after the 2012 season with a 6th generation Cup Series chassis, which was replaced by the "Next Gen" car for the 2022 season.

Although badged as an Impala and appropriating some styling elements from the now-defunct sedan's day, the Cup Series car had a custom-built tube-frame chassis and was rear-wheel drive instead of the Impala's front-wheel drive layout. The carbureted 5.8-liter pushrod V-8 engine produces an estimated 850 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque and is mated to a four-speed manual transmission.

The listing lists a 0-60 mph time of 3.3 seconds, which is slower than some of today's supercars, but also a top speed of 200 mph. And the car was designed to keep going at that speed on NASCAR's oval tracks.

Gordon drove Chassis 678 in three races, starting with the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, qualifying eighth and finishing second. Impala also ran in the Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway, where Gordon qualified 9th and finished 6th. The final race, the "Geico 400" at Chicagoland Speedway, proved to be the worst. Gordon qualified 23rd and finished 24th.

The car was then sold by Hendrick Motorsports to private ownership. According to the seller, it was recently rebuilt by current NASCAR Cup Series team Rick Ware Racing and is currently set up for track day events on the road course.

Gordon retired from full-time racing after the 2015 season. He is now vice president of Hendrick Motorsports, but still races occasionally; he won the 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona in a Cadillac DPi-V.R prototype and returned to Indianapolis last month for the Porsche Carrera Cup race He was.

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