After crashing out of last Sunday's race at Chicagoland thanks to a stuck throttle, Jeff Gordon showed up at Loudon clean-shaven, at least in part on the premise that the mustache he brought back for the Chase opener didn't bring him the good luck he had anticipated.
Gordon had kept a promise in growing the sort of mustache he had worn as a Cup rookie in 1993.
"I did the mustache because somebody said, 'Hey, bring back the mustache,' " Gordon said. "I said, 'Well, if we make the Chase then I'll bring it back.'Â So I brought it back, and then with the way that it went last week, I was like, 'OK, I'm done with the mustache.'Â I just changed my mind."
Though Gordon trails Keselowski by 47 points with nine races left, he doesn't believe the deficit is insurmountable. As a measure of how deep the hole is, however, Gordon could win all nine races and conceivably not claim the title, if Keselowski runs second each week.
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