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In 2000 we saw Jeff Gordon add another highlight to his career, he won his fiftieth career race!!! The win came at Talladega, and with this win, we also saw the Dupont team slowly coming together.
The team picked up it's second victory on the road course, at Sears Point, and with this win, Jeff Gordon set a Winston Cup record for consecutive road course wins, with six!!! The win was also a big lift in moral and confidence for the team, but it was short lived, because the team followed the win with a four race stretch, in which Jeff Gordon failed to produce not one top 20 finish.
The month of September brought the team renewed enthusiasm, they got their third win at Richmond, and Jeff Gordon followed that win, with 10 top 10's in the last eleven races of the 2000 season.
With the strong finish the team showed in the last part of the 2000 season, could the rebuilding be over? Will we see Jeff Gordon in 2001 making a strong run for his fourth Winston Cup Championship title?
He finished the year with six Bud Pole Awards, which was the most in the series. He won The Winston all-star race for the third time, tying the late Dale Earnhardt for the most wins in that event, and he also won his third Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Will the 2002 season be as exciting as this years? Who knows, but I wouldn't miss it for the world!!!