Later in the same season , he joined Richard Childress Racing as a replacement for an injured Mike Skinner . In the rescheduled season finale at New Hampshire , Gordon was engaged in a closing-laps battle with eventual champion Jeff Gordon ( no relation ) . With 16 laps to go , leader Jeff Gordon ( who ended up leading 257 of the 300 laps ) was stuck behind the 12th place No. 77 car of Robert Pressley trying to stay on the lead lap , with Robby right on his tail . In the middle of turns three and four , Robby gave a bump to Jeff while he had slowed down to try and pass the lapped car of Mike Wallace , sending him into Wallace 's No. 12 car and inflicting damage on the 24 car . Jeff was black flagged while attempting to retaliate under caution , and Robby went on to earn a controversial first career victory . The race , which had originally been scheduled for September , was postponed after the September 11 attacks , and after the event Gordon announced he would donate all his winnings to the victims of the 9/11 attacks
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