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Gordon not backing down from fight

By Ed Hinton
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Here's Jeff Gordon in the eighth autumn of his quest for a fifth championship, slipping slightly at the outset of the Chase while two of his teammates, Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson, are off to optimal starts. So again, already, it doesn't look good for Gordon -- except to Gordon. Sometimes you have to wonder how he keeps his chin up, struggling for this fifth title that has eluded him for as long as it took to amass his first four, seven years, from 1995 to 2001. But somehow he does, and th ...

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