Get Out Your Wallet For A Cause: What You Need To Know For January 6, 2019

Jeff Gordon’s personal Corvette Z06 will be auctioned off for charity

If you’d like to own a vehicle that once belonged to a NASCAR legend while also supporting a charitable cause, you’re in luck!

Jeff Gordon is selling his personal Corvette Z06. The vehicle will be auctioned off on January 18th through Barrett Jackson. The entire sale price will go to Gordon’s Charity, The Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation, which supports pediatric cancer research and patient support programs.

With only 747 miles on the odometer, the Corvette is a C7.R special edition model, is equipped with eight-speed automatic transmission, and a rear vision camera system, to name just a handful of the many features of the vehicle.

The special edition Corvette is Lot #2007 at the Scottsdale 2019 Barrett-Jackson auction.

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Notes from Day 2 of Roar Before the Rolex 24

• Saturday included a night-time practice session. Jonathan Bomarito held the fastest time for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship speeds with a lap of 1:34.533. Bomarito drives the No. 55 Mazda Team Joest RT24-P Daytona Prototype international.
• Nicolas Lapierre has the fastest time of the ‘Roar’ for the LMP2 class, with a lap of 1:36.553. Lapierre drives the No. 81 Dragonspeed ORECA.
• Richard Westbrook is fastest in GT Le Mans. His time was 1:43.148 while driving the No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GT.
• Trent Hindman holds the top time in GT Daytona at 1:45.533. He drives the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3.
• Bia Figureido (or Ana Beatriz, as she is known to Americans) was the fastest qualifier during the WeatherTech Championship qualifying session for for GT Daytona garage and pit allocations. Figureido is part of the all-female No. 57 Meyer-Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3 team.
• The No. 71 entry initially had the fastest time in WeatherTech Championship qualifying, but had their time disallowed. Gold-rated driver Dominik Baumann drove the car during the session, and only Silver- or Bronze-rated drivers can participate in GTD and LM2 qualifying sessions.
• Sebastian Saavedra was confirmed as the fourth driver of the No. 18 DragonSpeed ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 in the Rolex 24 at Daytona. He joins Pastor Maldonado, Roberto Gonzalez, and Ryan Cullen.
• 2004 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Kurt Busch was at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday. He was visiting the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing pits. He will be driving the No. 1 Chevrolet for Chip Ganassi Racing in 2019 after competing for Stewart-Haas Racing the past five seasons. Busch has competed twice in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

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We might see another Bowyer in NASCAR in the future

Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyer may be one of the most affable characters in the NASCAR garage area, but it’s his four-year-old son Cash who often steals the show.

On Saturday, Bowyer posted a photo of Cash decked out in a tiny Haas CNC firesuit while dad works on a small go-kart.

The rivalry with Owen Larson is about to get real!