Jeff Gordon hints he’d be game for a NASCAR Truck Series race at Martinsville

Could we see Jeff Gordon in a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race sometime in the near future? Only at one track, apparently …

Now 46, Jeff Gordon is unlikely to ever get behind the wheel of a NASCAR Cup Series car ever again. He’s rich, successful and seems to like his current gig as a broadcaster with Fox Sports just fine. That said, you know he gets the racing itch from time to time, and he suggested this weekend that maybe the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series would be the way to scratch it.

Not just anywhere, though. As NASCAR.com explains, he’s got one particular track in mind if he was going to make a cameo in a truck.

Here’s a couple of hints: It’s a short track, and it’s somewhere he’s won plenty of times already.

Was Martinsville Speedway excited about this idea? Yes. Yes it was.

Even more amazing would be Gordon in the Truck Series, where his next start would be his first. That’s due in large part to the fact that the series only got its start in 1995, when Gordon was already established in the then-Winston Cup Series, in his third season as a full-time driver for Hendrick Motorsports. He entered 11 races in what we now know as the XFINITY Series in 1999 and 2000 after spending two full seasons there at the very beginning of his stock car racing career, but he never even dabbled in trucks.

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It’s an intriguing idea for that reason and because at Martinsville, there would be less chance of Gordon suffering a serious injury in a wreck thanks to the lower top speeds. We’re not saying we expect him to make a cameo NASCAR return, but now that he’s opened the door, we are saying it would probably be the most-watched Truck Series race of the season.

And if he wanted to convince another broadcaster names Dale Earnhardt Jr. to join him, we’d expect that would be pretty popular too …