Robby Gordon

Robert Wesley Gordon (born January 2, 1969) is an American former auto racing driver.

He has raced in NASCAR, CART, the IndyCar Series, the Trans-Am Series, IMSA, IROC and the Dakar Rally.

While no longer an active stock car racing driver, he is active in top-tier off road motorsports such as BITD, NORRA, and SCORE International.

He won five consecutive SCORE International off-road class championships from 1986 to 1990, a sixth championship in 1996, and a seventh championship in 2009.

Gordon also participated (and won) the last SCORE International off road race at the now closed Riverside Raceway in 1988.

Gordon has continued off-road racing throughout his career in Champ Car and NASCAR.

Gordon also won two championships in the Mickey Thompson stadium series, three Baja 500 in 1989, 1990, and 2005, and three Baja 1000 in 1987, 1989, and 2006.

In 2005 Gordon took part in the famous 16-day Dakar Rally, driving for the Red Bull sponsored Volkswagen team.

He became the first American to win a stage in the car division.

In 2006, Gordon took part in the Dakar Rally in a Hummer H3.

Team Dakar USA did well until stage 9, when a damaged radiator caused late arrival at Atar, Mauritania, and subsequent disqualification.

Gordon and co-driver Andy McMillin won the trophy truck class in the 2006 Baja 1000, finishing second overall in the race.

Gordon's sisters Beccy Gordon and Robyn Gordon competed in the 2006 Baja 1000 on the all-woman team All-American Girl Racing.

After that, Gordon competed in his third Dakar Rally in 2007, driving the Monster Energy Hummer H3 for Team Dakar USA.

He finished in the 8th position, his best finish in this race.

His current trophy truck sponsor is Speed Energy and drove his Monster Energy truck in the 2007 Baja 500 with a second overall finish.

Gordon finished 3rd in the 2009 Dakar Rally in South America, where the event was moved after terrorist threats led to the cancellation of the 2008 event.

He also operates the Speed family of brands, which includes the energy drink Speed Energy that has sponsored his racing efforts since 2010.

Gordon, the son of off-road racer "Baja Bob" Gordon, started out competing in off road racing.

Gordon raced in selected Traxxas TORC Series events, including the 2010 AMSOIL Cup World Championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway.

He led the first lap of the race before retiring with mechanical difficulties.

He finished 8th in the 2010 Dakar Rally in South America with his Monster Energy truck.

He won two stages in total and a 12th place division finish.

He was excluded from the 2012 edition after stage 10 for illegal modifications of his engine.

In June 2012, Gordon announced that he was founding and owning a stadium truck racing series of his own, titled the Stadium Super Trucks, based on the stadium truck racing concept developed by Mickey Thompson.

Gordon owns and competes in the Stadium Super Trucks (SST), a series he formed in 2013 and whose championship he won in 2013 and 2014.

The series ran its first season in 2013.

A lot of drivers affiliated with Gordon's closed Cup Series NASCAR team such as P. J. Jones for example, followed Gordon to race in the Super Trucks.

Gordon won the inaugural Stadium Super Truck championship in 2013, by seven points following a year-long battle with former Mickey Thompson Off-Road teammate Rob MacCachren.

Gordon's series was renamed to Speed Energy Formula Off-Road in 2014.

He won a second championship that year with six wins and a 75-point advantage over Sheldon Creed.

That year, the series also made its X Games debut as part of X Games Austin 2014, where Gordon finished third and won a bronze medal.

He medalled again in 2015 as he scored a silver.

Since 2015, the series started expansion overseas, hosting a race in Australia at the Adelaide 500.

Later in the year, Gordon also participated in the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Britain.

During the 2017 and 2018 seasons, SST and the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) clashed on various instances.

In June 2017, the night following an SST race at Hidden Valley Raceway in Australia's Darwin, Northern Territory, Gordon took a truck to a local nightclub and began to perform donuts.

A day later, he was summoned to court for violating the city's anti-hooning laws and was fined $4,150 after pleading guilty on four traffic charges.

Gordon defended his action, stating he had asked security guards if it was allowed, to which they agreed.

CAMS subsequently revoked Gordon's competition visa for future events, indefinitely prohibiting him from racing in Australia.