Todd Gordon is retiring from full-time competition as a NASCAR Cup Series crew chief, effective at the end of the 2021 season. Gordon announced his decision to retire Monday morning on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“It’s just one of those things that you look at any life and there’s several chapters in it,” Gordon said. “It’s been an awesome run here at Team Penske, and really, really happy and fortunate to have the opportunities that I’ve had here, but when you look at it going forward, this is my 23rd year down here in NASCAR and 10 years in Cup Series and just made a family decision that this’ll be my last year sitting on the pit box.”
Gordon has been with a Cup Series crew chief since 2012, that entire time with Team Penske.
Gordon is in his second year as crew chief on the #12 team with driver Ryan Blaney since the organization’s version of crew chief musical chairs moved Gordon from the #22 team to the #12.
Since the move, Gordon has guided Blaney to two wins, included a victory earlier this season at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Previously, as crew chief on Penske’s #22 team, Gordon worked with drivers A.J. Allmendinger and Sam Hornish Jr. before Joey Logano became the team’s driver in 2013. While working with Logano from 2013 through 2019, Gordon was crew chief for 21 wins and the 2018 Cup Series championship.
