Geoff Bodine

Bodine in 2007

Born

Geoffrey Eli Bodine
April 18, 1949 (age 67)
Chemung, New York, United States

Achievements

1986 Daytona 500 Winner
1987 IROC Champion
1994 The Winston Winner
1992 Busch Clash Winner

Awards

1982 Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year
Named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers (1998)
Named one of NASCAR's Modified all-time Top 10 Drivers
Listed in the Guinness World Records for "Most wins in one season" (55 wins in

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career

575 races run over 27 years

Best finish

3rd (1990)

First race

1979 Daytona 500 (Daytona)

Last race

2011 Ford 400 (Homestead)

First win

1984 Sovran Bank 500 (Martinsville)

Last win

1996 The Bud at the Glen (Watkins Glen)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
18	190	37

NASCAR Xfinity Series career

94 races run over 13 years

Best finish

19th (1982)

First race

1982 Goody's 300 (Daytona)

Last race

2005 Federated Auto Parts 300 (Nashville)

First win

1982 TranSouth 200 (Darlington)

Last win

1989 County Squire 200 (Darlington)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
6	39	13

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career

22 races run over 5 years

Best finish

20th (1995)

First race

1995 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic (Phoenix)

Last race

2010 E-Z-GO 200 (Atlanta)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	9	1

Statistics current as of December 20, 2012.

Geoffrey Eli "Geoff" Bodine (born April 18, 1949) is an American motorsport driver and bobsled builder. He is the oldest of the three Bodine brothers (with Brett Bodine and Todd Bodine). Bodine currently lives in West Melbourne, Florida.

Bodine's racing career seemed to be on track right from the start as his father and grandfather, Eli Bodine Jr. and Sr. built Chemung Speedrome just a year after he was born. He began learning his racing skills at this track in the micro-midget division when he was only five years old. He had such an itch to race that he disguised himself as a lady and entered a Powderpuff Division Race when he was 15. In 2011, he drove for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, alternating between the Nos. 35 and 36 teams, with sponsorship from Luke & Associates.

Bodine was quite an accomplished driver before he hit the big-time in NASCAR's premier division, the Winston Cup series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series) with his first start in 1979. By this time, Bodine was well known as a Modified driver in the Northeast, racing against popular drivers like Richie Evans, Jerry Cook, Jimmy Spencer, Ron Bouchard, and others. Bodine earned Modified championships at Stafford Speedway, Shangri-La Speedway, Spencer/Williamson Speedway, and Utica-Rome Speedway. He has won many of the big races in Modifieds including the Lancaster 200 (1978, 1981), Race of Champions (1972 - Trenton, 1978 - Pocono), the Stafford 200 (1978), the Trenton Dogleg 200 (1979), the Thompson 300, the Spring Sizzler (1980 - Stafford Speedway), Oswego Classic (1981), Cardinal Classic (1975 - Martinsville Speedway), Oxford 250 (1980, 1981), and other modified events.

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