Gordon, R gets Morgan-McClure ride in 2001.

Former single seater ace Robby Gordon will get another chance to prove himself in a competitive ride in the Winston Cup after he inked a five year deal with Larry McClure's Morgan-McClure Motorsports team on Monday.

The deal will see Gordon take the wheel of the #4 Kodak Chevrolet until the end of the 2005 season in what is his best chance to date of finding the same level of success in stock cars as he did in Indycars.

Former single seater ace Robby Gordon will get another chance to prove himself in a competitive ride in the Winston Cup after he inked a five year deal with Larry McClure's Morgan-McClure Motorsports team on Monday.

The deal will see Gordon take the wheel of the #4 Kodak Chevrolet until the end of the 2005 season in what is his best chance to date of finding the same level of success in stock cars as he did in Indycars.

Gordon has failed to shine since bringing his eponymous team over to the Winston Cup from CART at the start of the current season and the #13 Turtlewax-Team Menards Ford has struggled to find pace all year. The team elected to cut their schedule after the Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte in May in order to concentrate on preparations for 2001 but the team's future is now very much in doubt in the absence of a driver.

The Kodak Chevrolet is one of the most recognisable cars on the Winston Cup grid and was made famous by the exploits of Sterling Marlin and Ernie Irvan in the late 1980's and early/mid 1990's. Marlin scored two victories in the blue riband Daytona 500 but sadly success for the team has been scarce for several years.

Team boss McClure is hoping that Gordon can bring success back to a team that are languishing outside the top 30 in the Winston Cup drivers standings with current driver Bobby Hamilton. Hamilton has spent three relatively unsuccessful seasons in the car and announced that he would be joining the Andy Petree stable in 2001 during the summer silly season.

Gordon was one of the quickest drivers in Champ Cars during the early 1990's but his pace was always stymied by his tendency to lose his cool and as a result he only scored one victory before leaving to join the Felix Sabates squad for what turned out to be a half season of action in 1996.

Gordon has since flirted back and forth between Champ Cars and NASCAR and set up his own team with the help of sponsor John Menard last season when he ran nearly a full season with a Reynard-Toyota package.

This year Gordon has only made the starting field on 17 occasions and is a 43rd in the Winston Cup standings. It is yet to be seen whether he can be as quick in stock cars as he was in Indycars and if he doesn't find success next year then he may find the NASCAR door closing on him.

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