Ray Evernham

Evernham guided Jeff Gordon and the No. 24 team to three championships in four seasons, and a series-leading 49 wins in the 1990s.

Inducted: 2018
Position:Owner / Crew Chief

Vitals

Hometown

Hazlet, NJ

Born

08/26/1957

PREMIER SERIES STATS

Competed

1992-1999

Championships

3 (1995, 1997, 1998)

Starts / Wins / Poles

213 / 49 / 30

Chief of the Rainbow Warriors

In the 1992 season finale, a young driver and crew chief pairing made their NASCAR premier series debut.

Less than a decade later, Jeff Gordon and Ray Evernham were in the record books. Evernham guided Gordon and the No. 24 team to three championships in four seasons (1995, 1997, 1998), and a series-leading 49 wins in the 1990s. Among their triumphs were two Daytona 500s (1997, 1999) and two Brickyard 400s (1994, 1998).

Matching Evernham’s mechanical prowess was his innovation on pit road. Under his direction, the “Rainbow Warriors” revolutionized the art of the pit stop. In 2001, Evernham tried his hand at ownership, leading the return of Dodge to NASCAR. His drivers won 13 times, including Bill Elliott’s triumph in the 2002 Brickyard 400.

After selling majority ownership of his team in 2007, Evernham worked for ESPN as a race analyst before joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2014 as a consultant for its competition department.