Four-time champion ‘really honored’ to be selected
Jeff Gordon delivered some news to Miss Sprint Cup Madison Martin in Friday’s live chat from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Turns out the four-time NASCAR premier series champion will be on the cover of the NASCAR ’15 video game.
This is Gordon’s first NASCAR video game cover since 2009.
“I’m really honored to be on the cover of NASCAR ’15,” Gordon said to start the live chat. “Fans talk to me about the detail of them and how they’ve evolved over the years. I love playing video games as well, especially NASCAR games.”
The game will be available Friday, May 22 and is available for Xbox and Playstation consoles, as well as PCs.
Martin also pointed out that Gordon was on the cover of the first NASCAR video game in 1994, so his career — which ends, at least in a full-time capacity, after 2015 — comes full circle in the video game realm as well.
“That’s very cool, and it also makes me feel old,” Gordon said with a laugh. “The run that I’ve had in this series and this sport has been unbelievable. It’s full of incredible memories and experiences that I will never forget. It all started a long time ago in 1993, my rookie year. Along the way, very memorable things both on and off the track have happened. Being on that first cover, you final feel like, ‘I’ve made it!’ “