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Jeff Gordon’s Ex-Wife Once Served Legal Warrants to NASCAR Owners at DAYTONA 500 Amidst Bitter Divorce Battle for the Hendrick Motorsports Star

Published 10/02/2022, 12:45 PM EDT

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Two people separating is never a pretty picture. The only variable is the intensity of how worse it is on a scale of really bad on one end, and incredibly ugly on the other. Perhaps, the divorce of NASCAR’s biggest star of his day, Jeff Gordon, comes on the other end of the scale.

Gordon got married to Brooke Sealey in 1994, but less than a decade later, they filed for divorce.

And it was the process of their divorce that became pretty nasty. In fact, it was fitting, as bad as it was, that while their relationship began through NASCAR, the end of the relationship also reached NASCAR.

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In 2003, attorney Terry Young was reported to be handing out subpoenas ahead of the Daytona 500 as part of his process since he was representing Brooke Gordon at that time.

Speaking about this, Ray Evernham called Brooke Sealey someone who “is trying to make a circus of the Daytona 500.” 

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 Jeff Gordon revealed the fate of his relationship with his current wife in a dramatic way

Jeff Gordon had kept his relationship with Brooke Sealey pretty secretive during their dating days in the early 1990s. The same was also the case with his current wife, Ingrid Vandebosch, who Gordon began seeing in the early 2000s.

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However, the way the Hendrick star decided to deliver the news of the next step with Vandebosch was nothing short of dramatic.

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This is so because in 2006, the four-time NASCAR Cup champion organized a croquet event in California. And as the sun was going down, he raised a glass and told everyone, “Ingrid and I are no longer dating.” 

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For obvious reasons, this led to an awkward pause, some tension in the air, which Gordon soon sucked out with three words – “We’re getting married.” 

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Shaharyar is a NASCAR writer at EssentiallySports. A graduate in Journalism from Amity University, he has been a passionate follower of motorsports for a better part of the decade. While Kyle Busch is always his first pick, he also considers Kyle Larson a legend in the making.
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