If Team DuPont kisses the bricks following this Sunday’s Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, Jeff Gordon will tie achievements set by two racing icons from different sides of the Atlantic. Gordon, a four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and four-time winner at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, can match feats set by two seven-time champions this weekend. Michael Schumacher, a seven-time Formula 1 champion from Germany, won the U.S. Grand Prix at the famed speedway last month to become the first five-time winner in the speedway’s 96-year history.

“I’ve never felt like there’s a real good comparison there,” said Gordon. “As a kid growing up a fan of the Indianapolis 500 and realizing what Al Unser, Rick Mears and A.J. Foyt accomplished, I don’t think you can compare that to what I’ve done or what Michael Schumacher has done. As much as I love this race and am glad that I’ve won here, I still don’t compare those wins to what those guys have done in the Indy 500.

“I look at the F1 race in the same manner. It’s just a totally different event and totally different types of cars. I think that you have to take each series and compare everything to that series.”

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