Shot at $1 million NASCAR prize comes up short

Jeff Gordon finished second in Sunday's Dickies 500 NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway, and it's likely the only person more disappointed that Gordon didn't win was an oil-rig worker named Hale Hughes.

As part of its race promotions, the Dickies work-wear clothing company selected Hughes as its “American Worker of the Year” and let him make a blind pick among the 43 cars in the Sprint Cup Series race.

The Woodville, Texas, resident chose Gordon, and if Gordon had won, Hughes would have won $1 million.

That would have been more than Carl Edwards received for actually winning the race ($496,300).

--Jim Peltz

Photo: Jeff Gordon during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday. Credit: Robert Laberge / Getty Images for NASCAR

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OOPS I guess they picked the lagging Hendrick team for their sponsor. I truly think they knew this going in that given Jeffs teams last showings they had nothing to fear, sorry to say they picked an unsuspecting person to loose... I think Jeff should send him a check for being so lousy all year...